My weekend :)

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Get comfy and grab a drink because this is a long one with a mega load of pictures :)

So this weekend (Friday night to sunday night) I visited my best friend. We've been best friends for about 8 years but I moved away about 6 years ago. So we now live a distance away (1hour+ drive) and both of us being busy all the time makes it hard for us to see each other.
With my recent break up and lots of things going off J invited me down for the weekend to cheer me up! :) Which worked wonders!

JJ has 2 horses, Millie and Ebony. So the majority of our weekend was spent playing ponies.
On saturday we got up before the sun was even up! To go to pony club because J had a flat work lesson on Ebz. Than in the afternoon we went back and rode Millie. That evening we went bowling with her younger brother and he took a friend along. Was a fun evening, I lost both games. I was going for the lowest score ;)! (I can bowl on the wii, but apparently not when theres a real bowling alley anymore!!)

Than on the sunday we had a little lie in before getting up and deciding to go to the designer outlet for some food and a bit of a shop. However it took forever to get there and than it was so packed there was nowhere to park so we decided to just go home and have a sandwich. We than went and jumped Ebz in the school.
I've only jumped Ebz about 2 times before (ridden her about 5 times) and so it was a bit nerve wracking but we had great fun :)

So pictures?

I'll start with Saturdays pictures.
Riding Millie (I was having a "i-can't-ride" fail day! So i spent the whole time seeing how fast we could go!! haha!! fun fun fun!)
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Lots of head shots!
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Sunday (Biggest jump is 90cm!)
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and one of Millie
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Told you lots of photos :)
Enjoy.
 

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Awesome.....Photograph...what is with the horse with a sandy body and brown legs.....Did it stand in elephant poo?

Was that you doing the impression off the horse with it's mouth open?
 

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Great pics, the one you you and the horse showing your teeth is my favorite...
 

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Laura they are clipped :)
Tyler - she's clipped. The leg hair is her un-clipped hair. So how she'd look if she wasn't clipped.
Here's a better example. See how the short, clipped hair, is a different colour.
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Thank you for the lovely comments :)
I love doing photography. I took loads of my friend riding which I love too.
 

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Looks like you had fun! Glad you invited yourself down to visit her.
 

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Jacqui said:
Looks like you had fun! Glad you invited yourself down to visit her.

She invited me down :) It was random and out of the blue.
She sent one text saying "I have a surprise for you" than a day later she sent one saying "how would you like to come and stay on... blahblahblah"
Which was not what i was expecting as we've both been so busy lately we've barely had time to even talk!
 

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Too cool, pretty horses too! We have 2 Quarter Horses, but they dont do that! lol! Have a good night! :) And be carefull!
 

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Steph I enjoyed your pics so much. You are quite the photographer as well as rider. Your friend is a "keeper."
 

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What a great weekend for you!! The pictures are wonderful!!
 

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Wow that was alot of horse pics :D. You know if you scroll down really fast, it looks like a still shot movie..lol
 
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51 pictures, and the TFO computer allows me to post 10 pix of Bob. Guess it's tired of pix of him, but those are great pix of you and the horses. I love them and love the way they are shaved. Is that a thing in the UK? I am glad you finally went out and had yourself a time. Your friend is good to you. I hope you feel better now...
 

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Not everyone clips horses over here but a lot of us do.

Like with Berry I clipped her this year to see if she minded the clippers. Only did her a blanket clip. So everything was shaved apart from her back, legs and half a face.

We clip them because it gets so cold over here that when they work with all the fur they sweat, then when we are done riding they can catch a cold because of being sweaty. It's too cold to wash them off so they get all gungy too. So we clip them so they don't sweat and if they do it takes them a lot less time to cool off and they aren't as likely to catch a cold or get poorly.

These two were full clipped because they get ridden everyday. Berry is blanket clipped because she is being re-broken so taking all her fur off would be cruel when she spends so much time doing a lot of ground work etc.
Jimbo is not clipped because he is only doing 5 minute hacks every so often so clipping him would be very cruel in the cold when he's not working. :)

I hope I explained that well enough.
 
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