… This morning we took the girls for a walk as usual but rather than make the full circuit and since the farmer was busy with the water on the strawberry beds, we decided to cut across the fields between two crops. We kept carefully to the dividing line and didn’t touch any of the [...]
Jun 182010
Mar 142010
This morning was dry, and out of the wind, not unpleasant – although not as warm feeling as yesterday. The wind did seem colder (and stronger). However, as soon as we set course back home, it started to rain a little. And after lunch, a lot more. Enough to decide to do the cleaning this [...]
Feb 152010
It is now nearly nine o’clock – over fifty hours since it started snowing; I’m not sure how long it didn’t snow in the night last night but we only really had about half to three-quarters of an hour without snow all day. The forecast for tonight is snow! But tomorrow should be dry AND [...]
Finally, a morning with no snow, with no wind, with no ice and with sunshine We got an hour and a half riding in this morning – the first time in far too long. Could this be the end of the rotten riding weather? Laika was unpleasantly surprised by a digger and decided to race [...]
Feb 042010
Tuesday evening, the temperature somewhere around 2˚C, wind negligible, rain in the order of Welsh magnitude! The riding lessons can go ahead. Babs is there, Kim is there, Carla surprises me and turns up too (“couldn’t leave you all alone – I’ll stay until there is enough help”) – fabulous – and, probably even better, [...]
