Surprisingly enjoyable

I popped across the road today with Jazz, onto my neighbour's fields. They were very wet, but ont he flattest part at the top he had allowed a whole season's grass to grow without cutting it, so there was a great thick mat of dead foliage on the top. Luckily, that meant that we didn't make too many footprints and I was able to give Jazz a really nice canter. I was surprised how much I enjoyed myself.

I took Zip down the road and it was like riding a plank. He set his back like a board for the whole ride, no swing at all. He was spooky and silly and insisted that there were furry horse-eating bracken-monsters in the clumps of dead brown bracken on the banks. I was, once again, immensely grateful that he does not have Jazz's physical strength or strength of will!

Jazz had another clipper lesson and was much better than last time. I'v got him tied up now, and the lines are getting straighter as he fidgets less. Isn't it the most fun thing in the world when you get horse stubble in your eyes from clipping under a belly :-( !!

C