So poor I can't even pay attention

Baldybear

Morning, captain will still love you wherever he is again wish you were closer not for the gardening but helping out with what is turning out to be a stroppy 2 year old mare Tantrums and general annoyingness (is that a word!) is getting boring now but will get there

Piquant_2

Not a good start. The car won't start. There is a symbol I've never seen before on the dash. The power steering alert :eek::eek::eek::eek: Had to look up the symbol in the handbook. It says to leave the car for the thingy to reset. It doesn't say how long to leave it for, so I'll leave it until after lunch. Please start, please start, please start.....

Piquant_2

I've been mainly preparing for the Captain's move. That has to take priority over everything else at the moment. He has such a lot of stuff to pack up and there was me thinking I'd sold nearly all his rugs:o

Dot got it right, the yo is a complete b@st@rd he was not 'got to' by anyone else. It was something I've seen him do to other people, hurt them when they're down, he gets pleasure from it. I will not miss him or his daughters.

Whilst I'm waiting for the car to start I'll sow some more seeds. I'll have to get a greenhouse if this gardening malarky takes off.....

GotToChange

Hell Piq - "new" reader here. Hoping for the very best with your gardening enterprises, debt reduction, job hunting and everything else....

Really though, I just wanted to say that I could (sadly) have seen the u-turn by your yard owner coming..... In my experience, no matter what a person does to to cover the cost of (what the YO will then see as) "free" livery, it is a rare occasion when it works out well. And I must agree with how terribly !!!!!y and clique-y bigger yards (sometimes even smaller ones) can be; it seems to be the nature of things - and is so very odd, as I am sure that most horsy folk (women being the worst, but the men can be ****** too....), consider themselves wonderful people - they love horses after all.....(?)

And yet, when I think back to my early days as a 10-11 year old at the first riding school where I became a hanger-on, worked for rides etc etc, the *****iness was thrpough the roof! I was too young and simple to "get it" but, after a few years, I fell foul of the higher-ups and didn't last long after that.

Fastforward to more recent times and, from agricultural college as a mature student (BHS Stages) to the hunting yard (oops) where I kept my old man (horse, that is) from 1997 to 2011, it seems to be the same everywhere. If it isn't the fellow horseowners, it's the owner, or manager, or staff..... seriously, as if life isn't hard enough sometimes. At the hunting yard/farm, I was of such use to them that they wouldn't accept pay for his keep but the price for me was quite high and in the end it soured the relationship which should have been kept business-like.

It is probably not 100% down to the YO, who is maybe getting some earache from other parties and doesn't know what to do for the best. Sadly, you are caught up in that and affected by it. I do hope your move goes well - I know it is never easy (hence staying somewhere for 14 years and then only moving because the property was sold); I only managed it because the friend I have was supportive (and the son of the family - although I think it put him in the middle a bit *sigh*) and had two horses of his own (now down to one due to a colic attck that took one of them very swiftly).

I now, together with the above friend, rent some lovely old farm buildings and two (terrible pasture, fine for his good-doer who actually needs to diet, not so good for my very elderly TB who is on borrowed time) fields where we have no other people to deal with, which suits me as I have become so depressed that I can barely function any more and I would certainly **** off anyone I came into contact with. The downside however is that everything is down to us, there is no back-up [the people who rent to us lay very low even though on the spot, it is hard to ask them for an input/help/cover...even though they are horse-people], so it seems an ideal situation is very very hard to find.

I love the sound of Captain; he sounds such a character. They have a hold on our hearts like nothing else, don't they....?

x
GtC

suburbanwifey

Piquant wrote: »

I think one of you has fed my diary 'growmore' :rotfl:

I have coir pots soaking in the kitchen sink ready for some black nasturtiums seeds. I also have two completed herb pots. Incidentally, the iridescent paint is lovely. All I need to do is paint some dragonflies;)

I remember telling you all what a talented and special writer robin was. See how right I am Robin, I am so grateful, I could never have come up with such a great bit of prose and the rest of you, missrir, cake and skint - thank you! I hereby promise to use this in future.

I did put up the rubbish one in a tiny village post office a couple of villages away. That was before I saw what you had done to help me. However, in my defense, I had to do it then or not do it at all. Confidence is not my strongest suit at the moment. Sorry caroline

Today I will prepare the new one and put it in my local store. I will also do some admin, must sort out the broadband/carrier pigeon, sky or BT perhaps. I'm also going to cancel the boiler insurance. Scary but the boiler's so old there's going to be all sorts of clauses to get out of fixing it.

The yard owner has reneged on our deal. I am no longer doing his garden and he wants payment for the Captain. I am moving him to a friend's place at the weekend. I will stay with him for a couple of days to settle him in. Unfortunately, this is miles away, which means I won't see him very much. He will be fine as my friend adores him. Once I get sorted on the gardening front and earning some money I can bring him nearer home. I am so sad about this. I didn't want to move him away from his home, let alone so far away. I have to do it quickly as it is horrible down the yard. The yard owner has made no apology for his turnaround, just instructed the manager to tell me. I don't want to talk about it anymore as it makes me cry

I wish I lived in Scotland too suburbanwifey, and I'd love to work for you too! Full time gardening would be just perfect.

I'm so sorry that he has done this Piq, you could have used some of my land for The Captain also as well as doing the gardening. What an !!!!! he is !!!! I have so much land currently 2 horses that a neighbour owns resides on some of it, would have been plenty of room for your horse, I don't even charge the lassie who uses it at the moment and wouldn't have charged you.

Things like that man annoy the puff out of me

tigzem

So sorry about the yard move, hope the Captain likes his new home.

Good luck with the gardening business, I'm sure you will be amazing x

Piquant_2

suburbanwifey you might have me turn up with horse, cat and gardening tools and tent yet!

By the way NL, I'll help you in your garden for food only! I eat a lot..... if you're really wanting help let me know, but if it's digging out a lake as robin put in one of her posts, I might let you down.

Hello GotToChange thank you for stopping by.A lot of yards use people as free labour. Certainly, I have given hundreds of hours of help for no return. The yard is full of teenagers slaving away for the possibility of a free ride. And as for health and safety...... non existent. I'm not talking about nanny state health and safety, but common sense. Things like wearing a hat when near horses, not sitting on the prongs of the fork-lift to go to the top of the haystack, overloaded plugs, smoking near the straw and so on....

The Captain is a character, I just hope he'll mellow out in his new home. It's going to be hard not seeing him everyday. I know he'll be well looked after, but he is central in my life.

Good news, I hope. The car started :T I'll do the shopping tomorrow morning now. It's too cold and I'm not feeling 100%.

I've been unable to get through to my internet supplier, so much for getting back to me within 48 hours :mad: No pot painting, glue for stencil placement was one of the things on my shopping list as was plastic sheeting. If I'm going to paint a lot of pots then cut up plastic bags are not going to do the job!

Piquant_2

tigzem wrote: »

So sorry about the yard move, hope the Captain likes his new home.

Good luck with the gardening business, I'm sure you will be amazing x

Hiya Tig!! Where have you been? How are you keeping?

Skint_but_Optimistic

Sorry about all the angst.
:-)

Verbatim

Hang on in there Piq. I'm so sorry you're going through the mill at the moment. I hope things settle down for you soon.

have you got a horsebox to move the Captain?? I'm guessing you won't be able to move him there any other way?