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[hellison]

Yay Friday! And i get to leave work early to go to see HORSIES and have the assessment lesson thingy. Which I have been excited about all week and is now making me so nervous I feel ill ;p But it will be fine once I get there and get on.

Also must buy codine for afterwards, just in case. This evening is planned to be one of lying on teh sofa with telly and laptop. Anyone else up to any exciting Adventures? Or drinking? Or both?
Must get cider on teh way home too...

Update!

The assessment lesson went really well. Rode a great big ole school horse, who was a bit lazy, but built v. like Ziggy, so it felt familiar and nerves disappeared as soon as I got on. LOTS of trotting, also while having to answer various riding questions to see how much I knew.
What I mainly *learnt* is that I Am So. Very. VERY unfit. Seriously unfit.

Ankle was fine the whole way through, thighs on the other hand were not so fine (sadly, those inner thigh muscles don't get used for much else). Also non-existence of stomach muscles became apparent. By the time we finished the half an hour lesson, my legs actually buckled when i got off :p
I was really pleased tho with how much I got right, and how much came back automatically. Going to start going for lessons every tuesday, with a novicey group (instructer felt I'd be bored silly in a beginner group). Hurrah!

Afterwards met a couple of girls I used to ride with in the last place, was lovely to catch up with them and see how their horses are doing. So all good there!


On the down side, it turns out the 'feeling sick with nerves' from earlier was actually just 'feeling sick' and now I feel like a bundle of shivery crap. No fizzy wines for me tonight :/ THo. maybe a hot whiskey...

Comments

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

so. fucked off.

need. holiday.

also would LIKE to be sofa but will be dinner out.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

hmm holiday. want holiday. apparently Jet2 are starting up flights from belfast to cornwall. WANT.

[gnillot.livejournal.com]

I seem to be buying a bottle of wine (or in one case, an entire bag-in-box of rose) every time I go food shopping lately. And then not drinking it with the result I have forgotten I have it by the time I go food shopping again so buy another one.

So I think I shall attempt to be a lady of leisure this evening and drink wine by the bucket. I may decide not to be on the MUD as a liaison while converting this plan to reality :p

[malvino.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for the geegees, how's the back/thighs/arms/rest of you now?

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Someone appears to have stolen my thighs and replaced them with jelly! Also, stomach muscles. I'm sure I *used* to have those...

was great fun tho, so good to be back onna horse again ;)

[malvino.livejournal.com]

Next you need a motorcycle, IRON HORSE!

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Hmm. A horsie that goes VROOOOOM??

It's quite tempting ;p Altho also quite terrifying. I should really try it out sometime tho

[tardington.livejournal.com]

Cornwall is nice!

Stay on Botelet farm! http://www.botelet.com/botelet/home.html

THERE IS A YURT

[tardington.livejournal.com]

Or a vespa scooter! You would get muchos respectos!

[hellison.livejournal.com]

OOOH

that place looks really nice ! YURTS! and cottages ;p

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

WHY DOES THAT SOUND LIKE A THREAT?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

*impressed*

if horses were cheaper i would beg to come with you some time! (i have Plans to learn to, um. kayak? pending my next trip to the holy land vancouver!)

there are nasty germs going round, but they don't seem to last more than 24 hours spo hopefully you will be recovered enough for ciders by tomorrow night.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

lessons for teh horses don't actually cost that much ;p
it's the beast themselves that get expensive.

Yeah. feel much better today. With ciders. Tho, so very VERY stiff and sore :p

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

HE WILL HE WILL YURT YOU

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