SUCH a bad mood

My saddle was due for delivery today but it has not arrived and I am in SUCH a BAD MOOD. Don't push me or I may snap!! I've had such a lot of trouble over this saddle. First, they have a nine week delay on manufacture. Second, they messed up an order for a gullet plate and were incredibly rude to me when they failed to make me a refund. So much so that I cancelled the order. Then they apologised, really nicely, and I carried on with it. Next, the agent I bought it from left them and they would not ship to her until she clears her account in full. She doesn't have the thousands of pounds that would take because her customers won't pay her until they have their saddles. And if WOW won't release her saddles they won't pay her!! So I arranged to deal direct with WOW, no problem (ha!) and they emailed me yesterday to say it was out for delivery and would be here today. And it isn't here. And I am very cross!!

This was supposed to be a present to me and Jazz for selling Zippy. Some present, it's been nothing but stress. I wish I hadn't bothered. It was as much as I could do to hold my temper while I was schooling Radar. Only the knowledge that he would completely freak out if I got cross with him stopped me. We did some great walk/halt and he will actually stand still with his weight on all four legs. Today is the first time he would do that, instead of always keeping a hind leg cocked in order to make a quick getaway.

We spent a lot of time dashing around in trot circles too. About ten minutes until he worked out how tired he was getting, and then pulled himself into shape, took responsibility for his own balance, and trotted quietly on both reins. A good session, but I had to work sooo hard to stay calm!

C