We don’t do mornings any more it seems!

Can’t say I blame him though, was p*ssing it down and freezing cold – talking about snow tomorrow! 😮 We also did a bit of loading practice today and he was super good (he will load, he’s just suspicious of trailers, so every time my friend has her trailer out we have a walk through it. Only needed a tiny bit of encouragement from behind to talk on today :db:).

The reason the trailer was out was my friend’s horse, Tally, decided on Saturday that he really wasn’t getting on the trailer, reared, and went bombing off out of the yard and down the bridlepath :o. They managed to get him on a bit later that afternoon but she’s been keeping up the practice this week make it ‘stick’. So after I’ve practised with Dino and stuck him in the field we get Tally out. He walks on just fine, twice. Brilliant! Now, he’s small so he needs go onto the left side of a trailer so as we’ve been successful getting on the very open right side, I switch all the bits round and Claire asks him walk on the left side just to make sure it’s ok that way too. He gets on the trailer and at that very instant a hailstorm appears out of nowhere. 😮 My lord. Hail is noisy on a trailer roof! Tally is not best pleased about this and gets rather upset at this point so it would have been quite dangerous to try and get him off the trailer until he calmed so we sit there for 10 mins waiting for it to stop. Long 10 mins I can tell you…. It stopped, he came off nicely and went straight back on again *phew* so all’s well that ends well but talk about unlucky timing!!