Went out riding to the windmills on top of the common yesterday. I hadn't been there in years because even for me the windmills are scary. Aside from the swishing, they make alarming squeaks and clangs close up and you always think bits of them are going to fall off on your head. Pony hated them, I could tell, and she hated the revolving shadows the blades made on the grass. If she had been 10 years yonger, as she was when I last went there, she would have jogged all the way and tried to bolt off down the hill.
I went with the kid with attitude, an inexperienced salf-taught rider, who wanted to go somehere different and I didn't want her ot think I was a chicken (although secretly I am a singing chicken!). She can ride alright when we're just walking and trotting but she can't trot downhill and seems scared to canter at all. That's OK but what if her horse decided it was going to trot or canter and she couldn't control her? She would end up on the ground. My pony would fancy the sam freedom and would want to chase after the loose horse so I would be off too. This kid with attitude is something of a liability. Anyway it all passed off without incident. We must keep going again and again to keep the animals used to it, and preferably on days when the blades aren't turning.
Gave up on Lynn Truss novel. Enjoying Jeeves and Wooster instead. I don't like babies and children so I approved enormously of a description of a baby as "that human poached egg". Forgotten which story it was in but it involved a character called Corcky.
At the same time as getting that book I bought one on old fashioned remedies. I thought it would be more practical but most of it is folklore. I'll repeat some when I remember some. However, the tip about applying potato peeling to warts is great. I have a wart on my thumb and the peeling is working a treat.
There are ones about wines but not what I want to know. If a guest turns up for a meal and gives you a bottle of wine, is it best to use that wine during that meal? Some do, some have already opened the wines and the guest's one doesn't get used soojust gets kept. I wondered which was the "done thing". However, I doubt the guests would know so it doesn't really matter.
Made a delicious crumble with blackberries from up the lane and apples from our own tree. Ate the last of the secret plums.
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Windmills? Being plural I assume these are the new fangled power generator types. At first I thought were doing a Don Quixote. Especially as you were on pony-back and took a friend. If I remember Quixote had a pony called Rocinate and a squire called Sancho Panza. They went out to 'attack' windmills!
ReplyDeleteYou must tell me what the difference is between a canter and a trot. I thought they were the same?
I suppose when it come to the wine problem, the guest wouldn't know what you were serving to them, so the solution maybe is to choose the wine that 'matches' the meal best.
Cheers.....Bernard
Yes, the new inefficient turbines. The Don Quixote type would have been much more fun. I'll put up a post about trot and canter. They are totally different.
ReplyDeleteSquire Sancho Panza is quite apt for the Kid With Attitude, whose wider family owns or occupies most of the land round here!
You're right about the wine - whatever matches the food.