Liz Jones is Credit Crunched in the end.....

ninky_2

at the risk of sounding like a sort of pre-feminist dinosaur, i think liz jones is probably the sort of person that would be in a much better situation if she'd been lucky enough to marry the right sort of person. someone who would have given her the self-esteem not to need to spend like she does and manage her neuroses.

lostinrates

elona wrote: »

She was furious with an older brother asking if she could really afford a "manage?" for her horse and saw it as a put down rather than a caring and sensible question.

A ''manege'' is also known as an out door school...like a big rectangle filled with sand/or rubber chips to exercise horses in. Almost everybody has one now, and properly they are not cheap. I got to the big winter shows with out having one when younger, but those are different times . In the west contry, I concede, its harder here, there never being anywhere you can work a horse through all the wet months without risking injury to the horse, or ruining the land. As a kid I used to ride in other people's, neighbours, but people are less sharing now, scared of health and safety repercussions and stuff now. To hire one locally my cheapest price is £10 for 45 mins. , and also fewer riding schools/teachers take people out, so there schools might be used from very early in the morning to very late at night with little break. But privately people use to be more sharing.

elona

LIR

Thanks for explaining what a manege is. I had visions of a versailles style stable or something incredibly luxurious and incongruous in the countryside.

lostinrates

You're welcome elona.

Do you think if Liz is dropped from the column they might like me to do a birds with angst and horses sore feet...from MY NEW COLLAPSING FARMHOUSE? (sadly not a real farm...)

Jonbvn

elona wrote: »

LIR

Thanks for explaining what a manege is.

I was going to jump in with my expertise. However, I misread the word as menage.;)

carolt

lostinrates wrote: »

A ''manege'' is also known as an out door school...like a big rectangle filled with sand/or rubber chips to exercise horses in. Almost everybody has one now, and properly they are not cheap.

Oh, how low I feel - I used to worry about not owning a house - now I discover I'm virtually the only one without a manege, too...

lostinrates

carolt wrote: »

Oh, how low I feel - I used to worry about not owning a house - now I discover I'm virtually the only one without a manege, too...

rofl, no I meant they are the wide/flat screen tv of the horse world: most people don't ned them, but think they deserve them

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

rofl, no I meant they are the wide/flat screen tv of the horse world: most people don't ned them, but think they deserve them

I know and half the decent smallholdings are ruined by them, I looked at loads, add on a field full of useless rubber chips or sand and they think they can add on £50k to the price.
Plus, unless you are into 4 legged money pits, then that space is then useless.

No offence LIR

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I know and half the decent smallholdings are ruined by them, I looked at loads, add on a field full of useless rubber chips or sand and they think they can add on £50k to the price.
Plus, unless you are into 4 legged money pits, then that space is then useless.

No offence LIR

None taken. In fact, they have good drainage and if a barn built over they'd make a better barn than most, and are suitable as loose housing for other animals if you are not conserving the sand. The rubber is I think now against EU rules...waste disposal/contaminates. Sometimes they are even useful as temporary turn out areas for the horses....saves ruing the ground in winter without keeping them cooped up in stables.

Lotus-eater

I've often wondered what I could use one for, non horse related. I don't think it's ever going to come up, because once a smallholding gets horsey type stuff the price goes up.
But a barn isn't really practical on that size and tbh I wouldn't want one with a sand floor, also what other animals would you want to keep on sand?

I dread to think how much time and money it would cost to get rid of one. How much do they cost anyway?