The weather is so, so warm at the moment! It's making riding rather difficult as it's the kind of weather where just standing still in the heat takes it out of you, haha! Enjoyable for tans, not quite as enjoyable for working in a kitchen ;) on Wednesday, when it was a bit cooler, I actually managed to ride...first me & Emma went hacking with Sunny. We went a different route than usual, so we didn't really know where we were going, but hey that's the fun of hacking! Had a bit of a hairy moment with some troublesome horses who thought they'd join in our hack, but we worked through it and I didn't spontaneously combust or burst into tears, so s'all good ;) Then we went up to my yard and rode Jack.. I decided to do a bit of swapping with the bits( a bit of swapping, good one eh) because I wanted to put Sparks back in the hanging cheek and decided to give Jack a try in the wilkie just to see if he liked it...he went really well and seemed to settle really nicely with it, so it seems we'll be keeping it-the swap paid off! We both had a little jump on him finish off. He most definitely doesn't have the most natural jump, but he tries really hard and clearly enjoys himself and that's all that matters :) We won't really get started with jumping until next year anyway, so we're just sticking to a few little ones now and again just to introduce the idea!
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