17.32<\/p>\n
On the couch.<\/p>\n
Laptop on my, erm, lap.<\/p>\n
Television trying to tell me about the book awards.<\/p>\n
I’m resisting the information.<\/p>\n
I’m wearing my bathrobe.<\/p>\n
Freshly showered (me, not my bathrobe).<\/p>\n
Vin is out in his field with his buddies.<\/p>\n
Freshly, thoroughly groomed (Vin, not his buddies).<\/p>\n
Knackered (both of us).<\/p>\n
But I’m thrilled and chuffed and, when I turned him out, he looked very jaunty; knew he’d done well.<\/p>\n
What’s been going on?<\/p>\n
This afternoon we (Vin and I, natch) were supposed to attend a Mandy Kent show jumping clinic at Lincomb, Worcestershire.<\/p>\n
Nah, didn’t happen.<\/p>\n
We went, we rode for Mandy, she praised, nagged, suggested and (slightly more forthrightly) told off.<\/p>\n
But it wasn’t a clinic – it can’t be a clinic if one is the only one present.<\/p>\n
So what we had was 45 minutes of one-on-one training with a top show jumper.<\/p>\n
That’s why the knackered word was used.<\/p>\n
But today I learned, Vin learned and we progressed our partnership to new levels.<\/p>\n
We have another clinic with Mandy in two weeks.<\/p>\n
I desperately hope there’s someone else in the group.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure I’m up to another session as concentrated as that!<\/p>\n
But the ‘high’ afterwards?<\/p>\n
Worth it in spades.<\/p>\n
Once Vin had been taken care of, the lorry mucked out, tidied up and put away, tack wiped down and put away I rang The Lovely Soph.<\/p>\n
And arranged to meet at The Little Chef.<\/p>\n
Where the All Day Vegetarian Breakfast and half a gallon of diet coke saw to the inner man.<\/p>\n
This evening promises one of the many films we have saved.<\/p>\n
I’m so knackered.<\/p>\n
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