Watty's Awakening

Suffolk_lass

Happy Easter. Relax and enjoy x

Slinky

We live in a small town (voted happiest place to live in the UK recently), and last night at about 10.40pm walking on the way home from visiting some friends, a badger charged past on the other side of the road and shot down between some buildings. I had no idea they could run so fast.

Watty1

Took Most Handsome out with a neighbour as Charming Cob had a long time out in forest yesterday.  Most Handsome like riding a ticking time bomb, however, this is only because he has not done "going out" riding for a long time, he just gets ridden here at home.  Somewhere under the ticking time bomb is a very good horse I think so I will persist with him as he will be my main horse when we move with Charming Cob just being the joyful wander around the forests and bridlepaths.

Home and afternoon nap was too cold and raining to do the job on the list which was clear the tack room/barn up.

Watty1

A very cool day so spent time in the office doing business financial stuff, paid some bills, left a note congratulating my new assistant on changing courier firms and so saving 75 p per parcel sent (I can say thank you but I don't want to forget to say it as I appreciate the saving and the work that went into sorting it out).

Sorted presentation for course and was going to write my next lecture when I realised the sun had come out so I went and spent some time clearing in the tack room which doubles as a garden shed.   Initially just  tidying up and throwing away.  Before I move there will need to be an ebay splurge as many years of horse ownership has left me with a variety of stuff I don't use but keep "just in case"

Removed a carrier bag of rubbish, swept the floor, found umpteen tree ties so the trees can be re-staked now and threw away some stuff.  A lot more to go.   Found a brand new hose!

VNM has moved some broken timber posts to behind the barn and is putting up a shelf in the haybarn near the horse shower to hold the equine shampoos of which there are many but if they are all on shelf then they can be seen and used up this summer.

Dinner will be a pasta sauce made using some mince from the freezer purchased 2 years ago so more clearing.

Debsnewbudget

I read it that you had found a brand new horse 😂😂😂
then reread it 

Watty1

There may be a new horse after retirement @Debsnewbudget but certainly not yet!

Most Handsome ridden again yesterday. My goodness he is a little firecracker but the more I ride him the more i remember he was always like that pre his retirement and I had just got used to CC and his placid attitude.

Watty1

Friendship group seems to be falling apart. Two are now non communicative at all and one has thrown a very strange attitude in that she is only willing to talk to people individually but happy to do things socially if she is messaged individually.    Very odd indeed

However this group of women were one reason why I was so reluctant to leave the area, but, having spent Easter trying to work out what was going on I felt it seemed a sign it will be ok to leave the area.  

I did get to the bottom of it, there are reasons 3 are really quiet these days, but the latest "drama" was a woman who is fed up that no social activities are planned and has decided to withdraw but wants us to message her ??

I love these women but the drama made me think there are dramas every few years where someone goes off in a tantrum and this latest helped me conclude it would be OK to leave the area.  

debtfreewannabe321

Sorry to hear about your friends 😕 but perhaps it is time to move on then with this unfolding. Plenty of new friends to be made in pastures new ❤️.

Watty1

Friend group even more fractured.  I give up.   One messaged me and said her and her friend really want to see me but they are busy until August.     I admit I was very hurt by that given they live in the next couple of villages

Then another messaged me and said she would love for me to come walking with her and one of the others and I replied to say I would love to but I had given up going on the group "dog walks" when I realised it meant dog walks for 3 of the dogs but not WattyDog because the last time I went he had to go on a lead whilst the other 3 ran around because one woman keep shrieking at him.   Now, no laughing, but most of the shrieks was because he was encouraging all the dogs into the river for a swim

WattyDog is irrepressible and I realised I really did not want to go on a "dog walk" he was not invited too.

Sad that this has happened.  

skint_spice

One of my friends is a bit like that - “ I can see you 8 weeks on Thursday at 6pm”.  I just go with it now as we were best mates, I think her partner doesn’t like that I am single. I am not on the hunt for myself so goodness knows why he thinks I would lead her astray. He has put air tags on her phone and keys because apparently she keeps losing them but it seems suss to me. 

As for the dog walking… no swimming allowed??? Poor dogs!