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Good morning! How are we all today? The sunshine has come back, typically, onna Monday. But still! How was your weekend? Mine went thusly...

Friday - fled work (hurrah) went to stables to ride horse. Spent FORTY-FIVE minutes trying to catch horse. By the time i eventually did, couldn't be bothered riding and we were both soaked anyway. So did stable and phoned D. to see what the story is for the next few weeks. Recieved following bombshell...
Sometime in the next few weeks he is taking her to visit this damn fine horse for breeding! OMG! HORSE BABY! (maybe).
Pure-bred Irish draft too, which is great, orignially he was thinking something lighter... but yay! Classic Vision . It also turns out, as another shock, that Ziggy is *not* purebred ID but is in fact HALF TB. WTF? this is half TB? Wow.
Anyway. I forsee a v. quick and short learning curve in my future on how to cope with pregnant mares and then foals. If he actually goes ahead with it and it all works out...
Rest of Fri. was spent drying out on the sofa with cider, googling Classic Vision and going OMG. And mudding.

Sat.... LIE IN. Yay. Sleeep. Then home to family for family doing stuff (giving presents for older nephew's b'day, going Awwwww at the baby, etc).

Sunday - moar family stuff, then I went on a mission to buy a new kitchen table. After much checking thro shops that only sold big dining tables and finally found this one , which fits v. nicely against the wall and matches the actual kitchen v. well. Tho, it has chrome legs. I am not sure why, but there you go. The rest of Sunday was spent Assembling the table (which was easy), getting it upright afterwards (which really was Not, it weighs a ton) then getting old table out and to garage etc. Then making tasty foods to eat off it.
Rounded off the weekend watching Blade (first time!), which was v. good, despite missing a most of the Exposition part in the middle due to phone calls, then with a long hot bath and catching up on some reading .

So there you have it - horses, family and kitchen tables. The excitement never ~~starts~~ stops round here!

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I just Googled Classic Vision and the first page had the words 'Ginger Dick' on it. Horse name WIN!

Lucifer Box love, too. :)

I didn't think it'd take long for someone to spot that. It may have made me giggle too ;p

And loving Lucifer Box, have the 3rd one waiting to read too!

Oooh, I didn't even know there was a third one out....

Yes, just out I think, I got it for my birthday... the.. soemthing Butterfly ;p It should be on the amazon link there.

I am poootly woootly fine!

Had busy weekend,will post about it because I know your life will not be complete without it dahlin

*awaits with bated breath*

The Black Butterfly.

It's BRILLIANT!

Then again, I fell in love with the LB books almost as soon as I saw the author photograph in the first one. The Unexpected Chapter Ending about halfway through it didn't hurt, either...

Ah yes, I think I know which one you mean! I read the first page and couldn't stop laughing so figured it couldn't go too badly wrong from there.

Indeed it won't be! I did mean to phone you over teh weekend, but never quite got round to it. As usual ;p

I seem to remember picking it up from the very shop named in the introduction (ooer, SPOOKY!) at the same time as I bought "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell". The latter I never managed to read, and is now in the box of Stuff that's been waiting to go to the charity shop since August.

I am somewhat miffed, though. My OCD book collecting nature has been thwarted by the fact that I missed "The Devil in Amber" until it was only available in paperback.

I got about half way thro the Strange and Norrel one (if that far), before stopping and I've never got round to trying again.

Waterstones recently did a double edition of the Vesuvius club and Devil in Amber in one, which is where I got mine, v. handy, but my new shiny Black Butterfly is hardback! woes!

Baby ponies!!!!
WooHoo!!!

That is quite a fine stallion, I do hope she's impressed and has a jolly time of it. Wey-hey!

BABY PONIES!!!!!!!!!!!

~glee~

Isn't he gorgeous? I certainly did NOT spend most of friday evening looking for photos of him and going PHWOOOOAR tho. Oh no. Not me.

BAAAAAAABY PONIES!!!! OMG!

He is very lovely in that long-legged, brooding face, athletic sort of way.
Nice hair too.
He should be gorgeous though, tis only right and fitting (can one say "fitting" in this context?!?? HMMMM)

BABY PONIES! LITTLE TINY HORSES!!!! MINI ICKLE HORSEY PONEY CREATURESSSS!!!!

Tis exciting :D

Have you read your Carefully Thought Out Christmas Presents yet? ;)

Christmas? I thougth christmas was the Delightful and very Fetching twilight attire?

The birthday books - i have had a read of the Twilight Movie book (lots of broody pics of Robert pattison ;p), but I haven't quite got to 'blaze and the dark rider' yet!

ps will be off to Ornkey with unhurt around the 23rd may, so looks liek no Eurovision party fun this year, alas. How is your elbow now anyway?

Bleh, whichever one it was. Not like my presents are appreciated anyway *sniffs*

Also, bugger! Ah well, we'll just have to find another excuse to come visit :)

Oh but they are! In their own, special way... And it has certainly made me view getting post in a whole new light!

You've started getting your mail x-rayed? :P

Now that is a VERY good idea !

*shops for lead foil*

Drat! Foiled Again!

(do you see what i did there??)

I think I preferred the first one. Not quite sure why.