Spoke to the vet’s wife who told me he was still sleeping after the flight back from the States. However, I have been able to make an appointment for tomorrow. I rang Toni last night to let him know – he had absolutely no problem with my decision, in fact he was very happy that [...]
Oct 122010
Oct 112010
I’m not happy about Zula’s wound. It keeps weeping pus and she is becoming less happy about it being touched. Unfortunately, Ben Horsmans, the vet, is on his way back from Kentucky (he is the accompanying vet for the Dutch national equestrian team) where the Equestrian World Championships have been taking place. I’ll try to [...]
Toni, Sonja, Anike and Maxime left this afternoon for a fortnight in Turkey. And as during the summer, Anike has asked me to look after her horse Zula. So you can imagine the tumult this morning when Sonja knocked on the door to tell me that all was not well with Zula. About three weeks [...]
Aug 252010
Time for another few words from your correspondent… Since the last blog, there has not been a great deal of activity. I have been out with Anike and Zula a few times – things there are slowly getting better. Anike still has more trust in me than in Zula but that will slowly change; we [...]
Jul 092010
The pattern seems to be repeating itself. Today (Friday) was once again forecast to be probably the hottest day of the week. This time the forecast was for yet higher temperatures than last week and indeed, the highest official temperature was 36˚ (at the time of writing). Last week that was 35˚ in Eindhoven. Tomorrow [...]
