hi vicky, how are you? not heard from you in ages!

hi vicky i don´t want to breed my bun but she might have babies and i have no idea what to do

your pets are gorgous

Hi Vicky,

Sorry I haven´t been in touch for a while but I´ve been busy over this lovely long weekend and only popped on to quite literally check the forums and do some stuff for the horse fortnight......weather lovely again today but quite windy so not ideal for being outside as such sadly.

It´s a pleasure to be able to comment on such pics...it also make´s other´s feel that it´s so worthwhile adding them to their pages and it´s nice to know when other´s take interest I believe!.

I´m doing good thank you and so are all the animals!.

Take care now and speak again soon.

Luv
Mary.
xxxx
^_^

It was really hard to leave them but i go back each week to visit and Roxy keeps me busy now i´d love to have even more but she likes being the centre of attention. You´re really lucky to have Gulliver i´ve always wanted a horse!

Hi just seen some pics of your animals theyre lovely :)

Hi Vicky, really good to hear from you and i´m glad you are feeling a bit better now and the doc has given you some pills to help.

the rat boys have lost even more weight - they are now down too about 400-odd grams from 600-odd which is great. mya has put on a bit but pepper has lost a bit. i now seperate the rest of the rats from the cage when i put their new food in at night to give pepper a good "go" at it before they all barge in to see if that makes any difference - if not then i´ll take her to the vet for a check up. the rest of the animals are all (touch wood) fine at the moment, which is good :-)

dad finally went back to work last week! not sure he´s actually sat on a horse yet though. unfortunately i haven´t been riding for a couple of weeks and can´t go next week either! we are in a lot of poop with money plus we had to scrap our car so i can´t even get to the stables at the moment! on top of that our plumping appears to have sprung a leak and is ruining ours and next doors wall! (for some reason the pipe runs through the wall!!) so not going too well here! i have had to take on a weekend job working 10 - 1 on saturday and sunday doing home help for a disabled lady - just cleaning and washing and stuff, no personal care, but it still takes a big old chunck out of my weekends! also got an interview tomorrow night for some evening shifts at a local company just packing up orders and stuff - don´t really want to work 3 jobs but may have no choice AND we may be able to get some regular home work too - if we can then i won´t bother with the factory job as i´ll be exhausted! so yeah, i too am hoping for that big old lottery win ;-)

you hadn´t told me about Babs´ accident! well done you for helping out and being so calm and everything...no wonder she said thank you!! did she invite you up to her stud farm to have a look round? hehe, that´d be cool! and how good of floss to behave so well, especially with a helicopter flying around and landing right there! bless her.

glad you managed to have at least a small hack on Gulls - must be awful for you not to be able to ride him so much at the moment.

thats about all that´s going on with me at the moment - all a bit "doom and gloom" i´m afraid. just frantically trying to find a car we can afford to buy (not easy when we only have about £250 in cash and a further £200 we can spare on credit card!!) and waiting for the plumber to come round tomorrow to see what can be done about our pipes and whether it will be covered on insurance or not! gulp!


hope you and yours are all well. thanks for mailing. xxx

vicky, it is so good to hear from you! i am sorry to hear that you have not been well again. i have heard of ME but must admit to not knowing too much about it. i know that it just generally makes you feel crappy though :-( i hope there is something they can do to help you.

pepper and mya continue to settle in well. pepper is still a bit nervous but she´s fun to watch - she´s so pingy, zipping round the cage and run and stuff. had her on the sofa the other night and she didn´t sit still for a second! mya is quite confident, likes to come out on the sofa and run about, she will often come and sit on my shoulder while i watch tv :-) they are working wonders on the boys too, both much more active now - bear more than nanuk but anything is an improvement and both boys have already lost a bit of weight with the increased activity and new diet they are on so that´s good :-) my boys are both neutered so no little suprises! i will try to get some pics of them all over the weekend although i´ve been saying that for weeks now as promised i´d send some to the lady we got the girls from! they are so cute though! about half the size of the boys! hehe.

glad floss seems to be less panicky and that the bunnies are good! you are right about how if you provide a decent home and look after your animals properly then it really pays off. my bunnies are still going strong! was VERY tempted to take on a new one the other day, a little 9 month old black boy lionhead but Freya from this site advised that it would probably not be best for my girls so i had to resist! such a shame as he looks so cute and is desperate for a new home!

dad is STILL not back at work! he finaly got his test results through and he´s torn all sorts of muscles and ligaments in his knee! is now waiting for a specialist appointment to see if there is anything they can do! can´t believe he did it at the start of May and he´s still suffering!

i´m still loving my new back protector. i wear it every time i ride now - i don´t notice its there! i have to get my hubby to zip it up for me as i can´t quite manage it on my own (!) but once its on its great. here is a link i found to a website selling it so you can see it http://www.bluepony.co.uk/products/Adults-Cobra-Body-Protector-1897
it was £110.00 at my local saddlery - pricey but worth it!

riding has been a bit of a nightmare! i was trying to get my confidence back AGAIN and riding toffee but then we went out for a hack - something i used to LOVE doing, especially on toffee, but he just acted like a loon! ended up rearing on to the back of my instructor´s pony and bolting! i guess i should have been firmer with him and stopped him running off but i just thought it would be safer to just hold on! my instructor was at a bit of a loss with what to do with me then so i rode one of their ponies they use for beginners (!) the next week, she was quite nice but i felt like a bit of a loser riding her! nothing against her, bless her, but i´ve been riding years and now i´m on baby ponies! anyway, next she tried me on a horse called Bally. she´s about 15.3hh so going up in size a bit again - which is good as i used to love big horses before i turned into a total wuss! and she´s very sweet and gentle. she doesn´t do jumping or anything but she likes her flat work. you have to use a bit of leg to get her going (which is kinda good for me right now as i don´t want something that´s going to be bombing off with me) but she´s very responsive to slow down and stop and quite light in the mouth, which is nice. so have decided to spend a few weeks working on my position again, no stirrup work and stuff like that, and then some time learning how to get the most of her, getting a good bend, getting her working properly and eventually in a decent outline and lowering and coming on to the bit and stuff as i´ve never really been taught how to do all that. and then i want to work towards doing a prelim dressage test. i don´t want to compete or anything but thought it would be a good thing to work on during my lessons. hopefully, once all that is done my confidence will be back again and we can start doing some other stuff, a bit of jumping and what have you. unfortunately it does mean that i´ll probably miss the summer out in the fields galloping about like i had hoped to do but i´m really not up to that at the moment! still, its nice to have a plan and i´m actually starting to really enjoy and look forward to riding again. last week i had about 15 mins left of my lesson but had just done some really nice canter work and was shattered and wanted to end on a good note so i just went in Bally´s stable and groomed her and gave her her tea :-)

i really hope that you are feeling better and that you get to see gullie soon - i bet you are missing him like crazy!

big hugs to you and your furries :-)