It’s Been A Year!
It is hard for me to believe that a full year has now passed since Andrew and Hannah Britland of Melland Shetlands delivered Diva to me.
I will never forget the feeling I had when I saw them pull into the yard.
And little did I know quite how much I would fall in love with my diminutive black pony.
Since Halloween is around the corner, I thought I would share a spooky little story of before Diva arrived.
A work colleague had arranged for several of us to go to her house for an evening of readings with a medium.
The medium spoke to us in turn and when she came to me, she said that I had horses.
A safe guess, I thought since we all worked in the equine department of a veterinary hospital.
However, what she said next was right on the money! She said I would be getting another one, but that it would be small.
Small enough that she could be standing next to me near the sofa!
The medium also said that the pony would heal me and had beautiful eyes.
After Diva arrived, the first time anyone met her, without fail, they commented on how lovely her eyes were! As for healing me…?
All I can say is that every day she makes me smile with her funny little ways.
She is intelligent and bright, funny and kind.
She takes everything in her stride despite being so young.
We’ve had great fun at the three shows we attended this year, and I am really looking forward to doing more shows next year as Diva matures.
She is popular at the yard and is jokingly known as the therapy pony as she is always happy to have a cuddle with anyone who needs one.
Here’s to the next year, and I hope you will enjoy following what we get up to!
Once again I threw Arlo in at the deep end, affiliating him purely for the Arena UK second round show, and once again he pulled it out the bag. How lucky am I to have such a wonderful little horse? We haven’t really competed this year. I don’t really compete over the winter, and also my horsebox was away for repairs up until the beginning of June, so I had no transport even if I’d wanted to.
With the dry ground we don’t seem to be having much luck with shoes, as little madam managed to pull both her front shoes off within 12 hours the other day! We entered the arena with two shoes on for a schooling session and left it with one missing (took about an hour to find it). Then that afternoon, as I went to put some hoof ointment on, I looked down and had to double take, thinking I was looking at the wrong hoof. But, no, the other shoe was missing too.
After having a long wait and some lunch at the onsite café, it was time to get ready for the Joan Wolfe Overall Supreme Shetland Pony Championship. I got changed out of my usual showing outfit into black trousers and a maroon top with white spots, as you are expected to be a bit more “bling” in the evening.
We were all set to go for our next outing, and were super excited. That was until I heard the dreaded clunk of a loose shoe! I checked it over, praying it wasn’t too loose, but, nope, it was going to need a refit.