nice work

we're certainly getting "there" quicker now, so i'm starting to think we're really making progress on getting back to where we were last autumn. in the field again (Gaynor's OH said, from over the hedge, you've got the entire park .. but he don't do horses and hasn't seen the grief we get going out on our own, with gates...)

she was very good when vicky & brooke cantered past on theirs (mother & daughter) - first at a steady canter alongside our fenceline, then full pelt up the hill! i thought, oops, but molly was cool!

we did some nice trot work, she was much more accepting than yesterday, and i started trying to work on lateral (trying for SI) along the fencelines.... a concept i never really grasped despite being taught it several times, but thought about what i've seen people do who can do it re aids and such and did get some progress....

and she's starting to grasp rein back, and i am too .. not that i went for many strides of it, one is sufficient for now! once i know we know what we're doing for one stride, i will try keep it going for 2, and so on...

got home and nessie was pretending to be stuck up neighbours conifer - she was half stuck, but she eventually worked it out, and it was interesting to watch her sort it out and get back down! we promised her we weren't going to help, LOL, on the grounds that if she got up, she could get down...

went out to the chippie and the village was full of policemen, VERY unusual - at least 6! apparently because of the kids (can't drive along the road without interrupting a game of football (soccer, for american readers) being played across the road, always concerned someone is going to run out in front of you .. all in the vicinity of the corner shop - and there's a huge playing field that COULD be used.. but isn't... and apparently some person had been caught trying to buy booze for some underage child...