So I realised I haven’t blogged in a reallllly really long
time! I am not really sure why to be honest, I think life just gets in the way
from time to time and we can forget to make those important moments to do
things we love. But here I am, I am back – no need to worry! So I guess there are
a lot of updates that need to be done as it has been a rather busy few months I
have to say. October saw a new addition to my life. She is beautiful and cheery
and rather hairy – everyone meet the wonderful Fleur! I saw her up for sale on
the off chance really as I wasn’t planning on looking for a new horse until mid
2015. She took my fancy and when I went to see her I fell in love! She didn’t seem
anything special until I rode her and the deal was sealed so to speak. She came
to us the following weekend and I must admit it is one of the best spontaneous
decisions I have made. I hadn’t really realised just how much I had missed
having my own horse. Because I need to go and sort her out every day it gets me
out in the fresh air when I may make excuses and stay indoors. Through the winter
I had been riding after work with a head torch and then at weekends. It isn’t always
easy buying a horse going into winter but the spring and lighter nights are
definitely on the way. I have had some lessons on her with my lovely
instructor, Laura and she is coming on in leaps and bounds. She was quite under
muscled when I got her so we have been working on getting her stronger and
fitter. She is now working much better on the flat and hopefully soon we can
start a few small fences J
We recently started taking her out to dressage competitions locally just to get
her out and about really – she was a star, we couldn’t have faulted her. She took
such good care of me and although gets a bit excited at cantering is very well
behaved. On top of all that, she never fails to put a smile on my face on a
daily basis, I am a very lucky lady to have her.
Second big update is that we are in the process of buying a
house! Which is also very exciting. Its an old converted coach house in
Cheltenham. We had looked at a fair few and wanted to be a little more rural
but discovered that our budget just didn’t get us the size we liked. John has
many bikes, and I have many clothes of Fleurs and my own – so we needed
something of a decent size really. We really enjoy having people over for
dinner and to stay and our kitchen in the current flat is postage stamp sized,
so a big must was a nice large kitchen with room for a table. After lots of
disappointing viewings and some stressy and emotional weeks we found our house!
We are going through the process at the moment and hoping to be in by end of
April, fingers crossed. Just in time for summer evenings and BBQ weather which
will be lovely.
Apart from that life is the same old really! I have developed
a new found love for crocheting so doing much more of that and less sewing.
Hopefully when we move and I can actually get to my machine (lots of bikes in the
way currently) I will pick it back up again. I PROMISE to write again soon J
