hellison | Snow, horses, and cats. but no more pull-ups!

Hello! and Happy Solstice ! I have been meaning to post for aaaages, but just never seem to get to it! The last few weeks have been busy, but mostly in a good way, actual nights out in pubs, having fun with the horse and even doing interesting stuff at work!
Even the work christmas do was good fun, tasty foods, tasty drink in comfy, uncrowded bar.

This weekend, I even had visitors!

thesme_01 and

lazy_hoor arrived on sat. afternoon, after doing some very Unpatriotic Shopping around Belfast. We exchanged Tasteful And Interesing Presents (they got me the tastful one ;p), then went for foods and cinema.
2012 is great, if you like giggling at terrible terrible disaster movies that MAKE NO SENSE. The special effects tho are pretty damn awesome, but there should been more of them and less 'plot', 'dialogue' and pull-ups. On the plus side, Giraffe!
After 3 hours of that (THREE HOURS!) we returned home to sip fine, fizzy wines and discuss the issues of the day (that part is actually true!). BUt then, SNOW! Thesme took photos and had weathergasms, so we had to pelt her with snowballs to calm her down again, like the TROO FWENDS we are. Then, MOAR WINE. All this AND we got to see teh hoors Relaxoslacks. They are awesome, I want some!

Sunday was Cold and Snowy. After the ladies departed back for the south, I remained on the sofa for some time, til I could put off going up to the stables no longer. There was much thawing tho, so I figured it would be safe to take the windy, hilly, little lane rather than take the much longer route round the main roads.
It was all fine at first, then I turned a corner and... Oh dear.

'Maybe it'll get better further on' I thought...

After that Fun Corner, it actually got slippier and hillier, so I stopped taking photos to concentrate on not sliding sideways back down the lane.
Made it in one piece tho and it all looked lovely, like this -

and this -

To illustrate how dumb my 'driving up the lane' plan was, it runs up the other side of the hedge at the back of the photo. And was just as white as the fields. Fun times!

In the field were 2 horses who wanted to get back in

and Ziggy. Who was less sure

So much less sure she decided to barge through the gate once the other 2 were through, and go for a bit of a crazy run round the bigger field while I slogged through the snow after her, before realising the others were gone and charging up the lane like a bloody warhorse to her stable, rather startling the girls inside...

Then I went home to thaw out. Which took a while.

Hmm. since we've had horse picspam, we should also have cats! Not in the snow, in a box -
JC, with lazers set to stun. Hopefully.

Lana, International Cat of Mystery!

Mystery. And grace. and fluffy belly...

So there we go! Today we had a Solstice Day at work, in which I had to demonstrate our web mapping/database thingsy to The Public, then there was a talk on astro-archaeology and solstices, followed by an excellent (if less relevent) talk on tree rings, comets and mythology, which you can read about here and here, if you like that kind of thing.

Tomorrow, normal work day, the wed, Last Day, which usually means pub. Then HOLIDAY. For nearly a week! Hurrah!

How are y'all doing out there? I have been reading lj, if not quite managing commenting/posting, but have probably missed plenty!

Oh and, btw (if you are still reading) if you don't want do sit through THREE HOURS of 2012, Cleolinda has done a 15 minute review, here!