A couple of days away.....

Went down to Sarah and Angus's place near Montauban to collect Choccy from her holiday with them. Think she'd have been quite happy to stay there though, she's had a fine old time with her mates....

Managed to get out on a hack on Monday, bit windy and wet but fun all the same. Rode Squaw for the first time, she's a lot like Gandalf in shape and like him, she certainly isn't a plod! Very forward going, a bit spooky, quite opinionated......and she can ski down muddy slopes!!!

Rode her in a bosal just like G's, no problems with the brakes.....

Did about 9kms in the end, map here

Then it was back to the ranch for a fun evening involving curry and wine and, erm, chickens......

As we've had a bit of a Silky population explosion recently, we took three of them down to Sarah's. They spent the day in her luxury henhouse and when it started getting dark, Sarah's chickens joined them.......all except for one who wasn't at all sure about these strange interlopers in her house. So we were then treated to the spectacle of first Felix then Angus trying to get her to go in. Felix tried the stalking technique

Angus went for the net approach (getting himself a belt from the electric fence in the progress which didn't make us laugh at all.......)

The chicken was totally unimpressed with all of this and refused to be coralled..........After nearly an hour of hilarity (we'd seen some wine by then) the chook eventually tired of giving them the runaround and just hopped up into bed.

The next day we awoke (quite late) to a bit of sunshine for the first time in weeks so we took the reluctant Maverick for a walk whilst Mike and Angus went for a run.

The Terrible Two were on form, the SNO had to be extracted from the bottom of a muddy ditch and Tally was away with the fairies picking flowers a lot of the time.....

Then after another fab lunch we had to head home. Weather still good, might actually get my horse out tomorrow!!