Watty's Awakening

Brewerspride

Watty, I love your descriptions of MH and CC's personalities.  Pleased that MH had a blast doing the jumps today Looking forward to hearing how you get on with him next time.

daisy_1571

Also loving your descriptions, I feel I know them which is odd as for me horses are just big blobs in the fields roundabout (that become HUGE blobs when you get close and BL@@DY ENORMOUS blobs when I had a seat on one aftef some silly person at work decided trekking would be a great thing for us all to do one evening lol.  Should have seen us all walking like John Wayne the next day and whimpering as we tried to sit down or stand up hahaha).  

Dxx

Cherryfudge

I really don't know much about horses so this will need to be read with an objective eye, but it does sound as though MH has lots of potential and perhaps with regular work and things to stretch him, you'll find out he has a lot to offer despite his challenging style! And he will stretch you as a rider, but I'm sure you can rise to the occasion.  

LadyWithAPlan

Cherryfudge said:

Watty1 said:

 acting like a giraffe on a pogo stick. 

This image is going to stick with me.

Mine too! 

Made me laugh - MH is clearly a show off ! 

Watty1

Once again UK Power Networks have locked me off my own land and once again the VNM has wacked their padlock with a hammer to bash it off. He was so cross he rang them and told them they can't gain access until they send someone sensible and refuted any appointment being made at their convenience telling them they can call me and ask when suits me and that they can forget asking me to "wait in for them" because that won't be happening.  (The idea is the chain is padlocked and our padlocks connect so either one of us can access the box).

I did laugh, he was so cross.  I thought simply removing their padlock again was a solution.

I am going to ring them when I have the patience to ask them to remove their equipment as they are not paying rent - they are sending me cheques - but I dont easily have a way of banking a cheque so they are just pinned to the noticeboard.  I asked for a direct into bank payment and they refused. I'm crosser about that than the padlock to be honest.

Slinky

How frustrating!

On the cheque issue, many banks now allow you to photograph the cheque to pay it in.

badmemory

Conspiracy theorist here.  Could they have found that many people can't be bothered paying in cheques any longer so that is why they insist on using them.

Watty1

Slinky said:

On the cheque issue, many banks now allow you to photograph the cheque to pay it in.

Chase do not accept cheques. I do have an account with San-der but they would not accept the photograph last year which was really frustrating saying it was not of high enough quality which I'm sure the apple crowd would be delighted to learn (it is an old apple I suppose)

Watty1

badmemory said:

Conspiracy theorist here.  Could they have found that many people can't be bothered paying in cheques any longer so that is why they insist on using them.

During my (many) calls last year to get last year's cheque sorted they said that if they paid by bank transfer and people moved away they would keep the money and the new landowner would not get it.    I did explain the solution would be to write every year to the occupier for their bank details to which they had no answer.

Sadly I think you may be right @badmemory

daisy_1571

Post office can do cheques for sntdr,  you just need an envelope (they credit your account then put the cheque into the envelope and post it away).  Most po don't keep a stick of the envelopes.   You can get them from bank.  I have some that I can send you if you can't be bothered chasing a branch

Dxx