FarmI wrote:

Some parents have no sense whatsoever. We made our daughter do horse riding
lessons for 2 years before we'd buy her a horse and sent her on riding camps
at least once a year while she was having lessons. Not once did we ever
have to do anything with her horses. She'd get up early on cold sinter
mornigns and go out and take their rugs off and do the reverse each night.
when I think back, I'm so proud of her and how she looked after them - not a
lazy bone in her body.

YOU ROCK!!! And so does your daughter! I know far too many kids who
stand back while M&D do all the $#!+ kicking and then graciously take
the reins and trot off into the distance. Do you still have a horse in
your family?


Our local council in its wisdom has permitted a large commercial concern a
monopoly over the N'cle Showground, effectively turning out the Pony Club
and preventing the best chance the abovementioned ponies had of
owner-education! Hnnnnh!

So where does the PC go/meet now? they are great organisations and nothing
like a bit of peer pressure to make slobby little girls look after their
horses.


N'cle Pony Club was eventually reduced to a scatn handful of families. I
don't think it even meets any more. Don't know if it actually disbanded.
There's a few others in Zone 25, but they're all outlying and hard to
get to if you don't own a reliable float.

Talking of slobby little girls and peer pressure! D'you remember the
ribbon browband fad of a few years ago? I made a *fortune*, plaiting
ribbon browbands in ever more garish colours for the slobby little
girls! LOLOLOL! Thanks for a good memory! ;-D

(I don't think I can even remember how to make one now. Gettin' old...)

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Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia