Well had a very nice christmasy weekend away, with real snow !

Anyways its very sad now, as we no longer have liberty and horse and success series, however hopefully they’ll be watched and understood by their temporary new owner. However it does allow us to go through the level 2 and 3 packs properly.

Anyways on to horses now. When in Sweden we had a good go on a more extreme lbi, he was very interesting, as ive ridden him a few times and each time has been different. After a little play up to a riding circuit I had a ride and tried to get a gait however he tensed up immediately and so i left it, he’s just had a new saddle and it really allows him to lift up his back and to put his head and neck down.

It was also nice to see a colt who i last saw as a foal, and he was very nice, unsure of people and quite low ranking as another horse came over and he moved very quickly. But it was lovely to see him again.

Had a few practices getting on vinur, and so that it going well, have found that vinur gets abit unsure if you get on from the offside, (the horse in Sweden did that too), but i think its just not used to it, so we’re doing a fair bit of friendly with it which is certainly helping, but it seams to be more when there is a mounting block (or simmular involved) but getting on from the ground is good – don’t want that to read like that weve only just started this as weve been doing it for ages, but its really only now that we are looking at it differently. Hoping to take a photo or two tomorrow. Providing that we are not snowed in.