Great, another bank holiday weekend on it's way, but as everyone know's it's hardly a time to rest because there's always lots of events on. Hopefully the sun will be shining, I'm a bit of a sun worshiper, in fact I think I should've been born a lizard as I'd love to just bask in the sun all day!! Speaking of lizards I'd like to tell you about Ziggy, he's my pet bearded dragon, every morning he likes to think he's Houdini & escapes out of his tank, he then does a commando crawl along the edge, dangles by his back legs to lower himself onto the table, then leaps onto the floor, legs it over to the couch, crawls up the side & plonks himself on the cushion on the windowsill beside Rodney, my son's Jack Russell, where I leave him to spend the day watching the world go by, whilst I go either to work or to ride the horses & take Rodney & Lupa, my Belgian Shepherd, to play on mum & dad's farm all day.
After my trip to Vale View I haven't been to anymore Para competitions yet, I've been working on my position & doing local competitions to get used to the whole competitive thing again, but I have to admit I haven't lost my competitive streak. I've been riding since I can remember & my dad has to be one of the most competitive people in the world, so it kind of rubbed off on me & my sisters Lauren & Kate. Showjumping was his thing & he was really good in his day! He stands on the sideline with the video camera now & you can hear him when you watch it back effing & blinding about what you're doing wrong, & calling the horse all the names under the sun if they aren't behaving. I think I've managed to get him interested in dressage though, we went down to Addington when we were away in Feb, and he really enjoyed it.
This weekend I'm taking George to a sponsored event for charity, it's been organised by Manx Telecom, where I work. We have to go from our HQ to one of the telephone exchanges on the island by walking, jogging, cycling, sailing etc, I've obviously chose to ride as I wouldn't get far on my legs. I'm going to fill my hip flask & ride about 8 miles to our destination, then hopefully we'll be greeted with bacon butties, then on Monday I'm taking Bernie in the IOM Dressage group competition, hopefully I'll do better than my last few times, but you know what it's like when you get to a comp, there's so much more interesting things for Bernie to think about than me!!!
