DAY 1

Leapt out of bed this morning to find legs, back, arms and generally my whole body just wouldn't move. I suppose 2 days of lifting hoiking, dragging for about 12hours both days is paying its toll but I needed to get to the yard early to check Kai and Harv weren't on there backs with legs in the air with the huge amounts of grass they had. Actually wew were quite cruel because the patch they are in is about 2 stables wide which I will gradually extend once they graze it down a bit.

All in all they have settled well - both a bit noisy but OK.

Met Lorna at NW and we gutted old stables and had a general sort out. After a few coffees and socialising I rushed back to Onley to make sure ponies still alive (seems to be the theme of this weekend ). All ok so decided to ride Kai. Lunged him first and he was ok so lorna helped me on and there was 1 little "mmmmnnnn not really sure about this" moment fro him - he got an " well I am so off we go" and he was fab

Worked him quite hard and practised all our new little tricks and even though the men in camouflage were doing there best to shoot us (the school is next to a paintballing place - very odd!) he was just brilliant. Very pleased with my riding as I actually gained some balls for the first time.

Then Lorna and Harv went exploring with me on foot. We decided to just go through to the main EC and have a mooch around a bit of the 1000 acres they have there. So off we went down a lovely little track and got to the motorway bridge we have to cross - no probs there, and down to the first gate into our new land of hacking ....fields! Lorna went in and I started trying to close the gate. Ahhh a cow I said ...lorna started eeking at me and asking could I hurry as there was a few more cows coming over. I couldn't see them as there was a little hedge in the way but as I walked around it there were about 50 of them all coming over to us and I'm on foot we left at a brisk walk with me hiding behind harv and lorna. went under the bridge where a tank was hiding (I kid you not!). Harvey very brave, across some fields to the polo fields but i had a little spook half way across as a pheasant flew out under my feet - harvey didn't even blink we made it home without any further cow issues but had great fun on first day of exploring.

So far so good with the boys, lorna and my new home, Need to sort the paddock tomorrow and get lots of handles for the electric as it is very strong or so we are told, neither of us are actually going to risk trying it