As always, Tuesday evening is riding school evening. We seem to have got the routine going quite well, despite being a little short of help at times. Three people cried off – one from each lesson – and one of my helpers was sick too. Rickie managed to keep Tipo nicely under control last night [...]
Mar 032010
As of today I am a qualified In-house Emergency and First-Aid Officer. The second part of the training was today where we had the chance to play with fire extinguishers (there was also a fair amount of fire theory and also a bit about evacuation.)
Feb 092010
I feel I have spent a little too much time kneeling next to “victims” yesterday. The bruise from where Laika kicked me, two weeks ago, has traversed the knee and I now have a black and blue patch diametrically opposed to the place where I was kicked! The blow may well have been cushioned somewhat [...]
A day studying. Well, a day out refreshing old material. At the riding school, as in any organization, it is mandatory to appoint safety officers charged with assisting in times of emergency and in administering first aid. It is more than 15 years since I last did a first aid course and a number of [...]
And then comes the next email “…I have made a mistake with the dates….” and it turns out that it is the 8th after all and not the 15th as “corrected”!
