All the king's horses

The sleepless nights and mozzie trouble has passed, thank god and even the sun has come out to play a little, which instantly revived me.

For some strange reason getting back into the swing at things in work took some time, and I seemed a little lost at what I was doing before my holiday. All is well now though.

There's some movement on the horsey front. I have been fed up with the yard I am in for a while now, and have been looking around. All the stables in the area I know are not really what I wanted though, so I moved on. The biggest problem is that this area has clay soil and property prices are high. This means few yards are able to afford keeping a huge grazing field, and even if they have it, it's unusable in winter.

The other day however, I saw a little ad on Marktplaats for a stable nearby. So I decided to go have a look and it looked really, really good. The one snag is that there's no indoor school, so I'll be facing the elements this winter. They do however have huge stables, a great surface in the school, which should be rideable all year around. They muck out, feed, put the horses in and out and generally look after him really well, which means they take a lot of load off my shoulders. Aside from that, it'll cost me an average of EUR100/month less! Final conclusion... Solon and me will be moving house soon. I'm pretty excited about it, and it'll be great to get some more free time. I may even be able to follow a course, or go do some sports... Wee.