Yes, distance is a bit of a problem. But an hour's drive is nothing for us here... I think it's three hours from one end of Aberdeenshire to the other! (In my car, that is. Some people would do it in less time than that.Millymollymandy wrote: As for nice caring people on forums - I'm sure there are loads of you who would help out if you could (and vice versa) - but the distance is rather vast between most of us!Even this lady in Brittany drove 1hr 20mins to get to me, which I thought was such a lovely thing to do.
I'm fed up!
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Hi MMM - just seen your post on the French site - so sorry to hear that you have broken your foot and that it took so long for it to be diagnosed correctly. I hope that you are on the mend now.
My poor girl has recovered from her scratches and brusies and we have gone back to basics for a week with getting her used to the saddle again, and finally got out for a short walk with her yesterday after an hour of flinching and planting her hooves in the garden and refusing to move with the saddle on.
Was trying to go out today but every time I think its dry enough, another shower comes over, so resigned myself to some gardening.
Very much like the idea of virtual gardening - so keep your spirits up and follow this virtual crop path, through the beets
(so sick of chutney and boiling everything pink), and into the runner bean patch for the sixth successive day of filling freezer bags, and then around the huge pumpkins - got three of the enourmous things now! and into the broad bean and pea patchs - and get shelling.
Grab a couple of handfulls of strawbs enjoying the late summer sunshine, before the chickens get them, and relax with a well earned wild blackberry cordial.
Monika
My poor girl has recovered from her scratches and brusies and we have gone back to basics for a week with getting her used to the saddle again, and finally got out for a short walk with her yesterday after an hour of flinching and planting her hooves in the garden and refusing to move with the saddle on.
Was trying to go out today but every time I think its dry enough, another shower comes over, so resigned myself to some gardening.
Very much like the idea of virtual gardening - so keep your spirits up and follow this virtual crop path, through the beets
(so sick of chutney and boiling everything pink), and into the runner bean patch for the sixth successive day of filling freezer bags, and then around the huge pumpkins - got three of the enourmous things now! and into the broad bean and pea patchs - and get shelling.
Grab a couple of handfulls of strawbs enjoying the late summer sunshine, before the chickens get them, and relax with a well earned wild blackberry cordial.
Monika
Hey Monika!
I've just realised your in Auvergne....................Werewolf country!
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I've just realised your in Auvergne....................Werewolf country!
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Er Nev?
Thanks Monika - lots of pain unfortunately and it is not easy and I'm getting pretty down with it all. Hubby did some gardening for me yesterday - planted some more seeds and is keeping everything watered although luckily we've had a bit more rain (it was actually getting dry here!
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He's changed his travel plans as he was going to England in less than 4 weeks to see his family but is now going in early Oct - because his mum is having a hip replacement so I suggested he go there when she is coming out of hospital to help out, which everyone now thinks is a good idea, so I get 6 weeks now to recover and according to the docs it should be about 4 weeks (although doesn't feel like it ever will get better at the moment!).
Glad your poor mare is getting better - not surprised she is a bit wary of the saddle!
By the way for everyone on this site - Monika and I look in on a French forum where there have been an awful lot of people who've had accidents due to horses in the last week or so!
Thanks Monika - lots of pain unfortunately and it is not easy and I'm getting pretty down with it all. Hubby did some gardening for me yesterday - planted some more seeds and is keeping everything watered although luckily we've had a bit more rain (it was actually getting dry here!
He's changed his travel plans as he was going to England in less than 4 weeks to see his family but is now going in early Oct - because his mum is having a hip replacement so I suggested he go there when she is coming out of hospital to help out, which everyone now thinks is a good idea, so I get 6 weeks now to recover and according to the docs it should be about 4 weeks (although doesn't feel like it ever will get better at the moment!).
Glad your poor mare is getting better - not surprised she is a bit wary of the saddle!
By the way for everyone on this site - Monika and I look in on a French forum where there have been an awful lot of people who've had accidents due to horses in the last week or so!
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Hey MMM - Never a truer word spoken but in jest!
A friend popped in with his horse to meet and greet our new addition, whilst casually stood around, our neighbour went by with his big shiny new RED tractor - que horse pandemonium (not mine fortunately she has seen it often enough now) but his - a percheron cross. Stomped on my foot in its panic - clad only in gardening wellies!
Nice bruise shaping up in a perfect horseshoe across the top of my foot.
I thinks it's a curse.
Guess what happened to me today.By the way for everyone on this site - Monika and I look in on a French forum where there have been an awful lot of people who've had accidents due to horses in the last week or so!
A friend popped in with his horse to meet and greet our new addition, whilst casually stood around, our neighbour went by with his big shiny new RED tractor - que horse pandemonium (not mine fortunately she has seen it often enough now) but his - a percheron cross. Stomped on my foot in its panic - clad only in gardening wellies!
Nice bruise shaping up in a perfect horseshoe across the top of my foot.
I thinks it's a curse.
When I was a young lad (yorkshire accent) I read a story in a "Ripley's Believe it or Not" comic (but I have seen the full story in serious book since) called "The Beast of Auvergne" which told the (reputedly) true story of a werewolf that ravaged the countryside thereabouts. I think it may have been several hundred years ago. King Charles the whatever had to organise a hunt to get rid of the thing and it was finally shot by an old farmer called Jean something-or-other with a silver bullet.theabsinthefairy wrote:WEREWOLVES
Sorry about the lack of detail it is probaly 35 years plus since I read it but the name stuck!
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Oh yeah! King Charles the Whatever gave Jean a medal for his bravery. Now the gun he used and the medal he was given are on display in a museum over there somewhere
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Yes lucky not to be in flip flops - not wasting my frozen peas they took me hours to pick and pod ready for the freezer, a couple of ice cubes and a tea towel.
Weather was good so sat outside with a glass of red to commiserate, weather not so good today so sat at computer commiserating with a glass of red - bit of a theme going on here!
Thanks for clearing that up for me Nev, although did wonder what had been setting the dog off barking in the middle of the night earlier this week - and it was a very full and bright moon too. Spooky.
Thanks for your kind wishes - own silly fault, big bruise, nothing broken. OH considers that it fulfills all he has ever said about horses and not being able to trust the brutes - then broke his motorbike messing about with it.
So I can't ride till I can get my foot in a boot and he can't ride till his replacement parts arrive mail order - we are a happy bunch today.
Monika
Weather was good so sat outside with a glass of red to commiserate, weather not so good today so sat at computer commiserating with a glass of red - bit of a theme going on here!
Thanks for clearing that up for me Nev, although did wonder what had been setting the dog off barking in the middle of the night earlier this week - and it was a very full and bright moon too. Spooky.
Thanks for your kind wishes - own silly fault, big bruise, nothing broken. OH considers that it fulfills all he has ever said about horses and not being able to trust the brutes - then broke his motorbike messing about with it.
So I can't ride till I can get my foot in a boot and he can't ride till his replacement parts arrive mail order - we are a happy bunch today.
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Well I went outside yesterday for the first time in 9 days! So glad to get out and see what was going on in the garden but so frustrating not to be able to do anything - the weeds are coming along a treat.
I did manage to feed and stroke my ducks (sitting down), and talk to the hens which cheered me up - as did the first sunshine since I last went outdoors!
Can't believe how autumny it is looking. My plums trees are nearly bare again - can't understand it because they looked like that the last two years when it was really dry but this year it has been wet. Maybe it is just what plums do?
Anyway foot still hugely swollen particularly the ball of my foot and still dreadful bruising, but at least the pain has stopped and so has the itching! Am going to go back to the doctor because I think I must have damaged the tendons/ligaments or something.
I did manage to feed and stroke my ducks (sitting down), and talk to the hens which cheered me up - as did the first sunshine since I last went outdoors!
Can't believe how autumny it is looking. My plums trees are nearly bare again - can't understand it because they looked like that the last two years when it was really dry but this year it has been wet. Maybe it is just what plums do?
Anyway foot still hugely swollen particularly the ball of my foot and still dreadful bruising, but at least the pain has stopped and so has the itching! Am going to go back to the doctor because I think I must have damaged the tendons/ligaments or something.