"Trish Brown" wrote in message
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.

We were always 'hard' on her (according to her) and she hated it and thought
we were 'mean' but now she's a mother herself guess how she is raising her
kid? :-))

Do you still have a horse in
your family?

Sadly no. She went off to University, many hours drive from here and she
decided that they had to go to new homes where they would be ridden
regularly. It was a sad day all round when they went and I especially
missed one of them who had a great sense of humour (if that is possible in a
horse).

I used to walk across the paddock and he would walk right behind me and when
I'd sudeenly stop he'd bonk into my back then off we'd go again and do it
all over again. The expression on his face when I finally got to where I
was going was somehting to behold. He loved that game.

And I missed the poops hugely till I found another source which I have to
admit is much easier to collect. Now I just drive my ute up beside the pile
and load it full - no more bags and shovels and wheelbarrows.

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.

That's appalling! I would have thought it would be a thriving PC area.

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

Oh yes! The kid learned to do them for herself.

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

Aint' we all?