Sunday, 20 May 2007

"Pear Tree Stables"


Here's where we all live.. I'm the youngest, so I was given the "terraced" one, while the two elders ( Mum Lady & Auntie Etti) each get the larger and more comfortable "End Of Terrace" models, though these come with Live-In Swallow families, and their associated "debris". These Swallows are everywhere, all the time. Two of them even managed to sneak into this picture above the weather-vane!



In the front is our wonderful trailer, and Dad is building-by-hand, a pad to keep the trailer level, and dry. It's big enough so that the Land Rover can reverse onto hard-standing, and start to move way on solid ground, instead of spinning and digging-in to the wet grass. In our last place, whenever the wheels were left on wet grass, the trailer brakes almost always seized on, so the trailer had to be dragged along until the wheels freed. Hopefully that won't be happening now with this latest new landscaping.

Am I wicked, or Wot !! ?


I was SO wicked this morning !

We were all set to go off to a ride this morning. Everything was loaded up, and it was just me to go, & I decided to play up, Big Time .

I went into the trailer, except for my back feet, which I kept on the ramp, and just as Mum thought we were getting sorted... I backed out again Hehe

And that's the way we fought.. on the ramp, off the ramp... on the ramp, off the ramp... until mum noticed that I kept skewing off to the right of the trailer. She's brainy is my Mum.. she waited until I moved off one more time, and then she pulled really hard on my head-collar, until I was squashing my nose up against the side of the trailer, which hurt. Then we did it again, same result.. and again, same result. After that I decided that she was brainier than me, so I gave up, and walked straight in. I have to add that I did manage to stand on Mum's toes and twist, before she started getting serious with me.


We went off for an hour's drive, and then had a 19km ride over the open fields and hills, which was brilliant, and then (almost) straight back into the trailer to head home again.