The way to heaven is on horseback

Today has been a really long and tiring day with its fair share of arguments. When I woke up this morning I knew that I wasn't going to be at school because I had two essays that needed writing foe English. The down side of a weekend away is the fact that when I come back I have so much work to catch up on. It took me all day today write my essays. This morning my sister came around and it was sods law that my nan decided that it was today that she wanted to sleep in. So my sister asked if she could come back this evening my mum said yes. Well tonight my sister let everyone see how much she is not dealing with about my nan being ill. As she lost her temper one minute she was crying the next she was angry. To be honest I don't think that she nows how she is feeling.  At the same time as she did last night my nan decided that she wanted to start getting out of bed and that she needed to go home (which is exactly where she is). Well we ended up with the district nurse coming ...

First off I want to thank everyone for the birthday messages they were lovely. Today has been a long and tiring day. I forgot to mention in music earlier post about two kids at center parcs Zona threw the beach ball down the deep end of the swimming pool so I went to fetch it and when I came back there was this little girl standing there she looked to be 4 or 5 and in this really sweet voice she asked if she could play with us so zona and I said yes if you want to. So for ages we were just throwing the ball back and forth. Zonas and I would take it in turns to lift this little girl up so that she could send the blog back to the other person. Then her brother turned up and asked if he could play to so for about 20 minutes we were just playing with these two models. Until sadly we had to go.  My mum did end up bringing my mini down for me to drive it back I had one problem in the car park where I let my drive us out and then we switched back. Then on drove the 50 minute trip fro...

This is going to be my first of two posts today and will be about my last post about my last day at centreparcs. Then this evening I have got my pony club launch evening so I will post about it after I have been to it. Last night zona and I went to bed fairly early and because of this zona and I got up about 8/8:30 this morning. While Zona played on her Nexas 7 tablets I spent some time reading everyone's blogs. Then we remembered that Jeremy Kyle was about to start so we put that on, at this point there was only me and Zona up, then when her mum and dad came in the sitting room her Dad made us all laugh by pretending to be one of the chavy people off Jeremy kyle.  This afternoon we went up to the dome again. I love it there cause there is am inside bit that's lovely and warm but then there's an outside bit as well so when you go outside the waters really warm and if it's sunny it makes the water even nicer its lovely. We spent some time chilling by the pool. Then ...

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Today is my third day at centreparcs and also the day that Emily goes home. This morning we woke up at about 9:30 which was a lot later than we got up yesterday. I had a really good nights sleep it really surprises me every time how comfy the beds are, after wrote my post last night we just lay in bed chatting for a while and somehow ended up singing Disney songs it started because zona went 'omg a kite' no idea why as we were in a pitch black room, and I just burst out with 'lets go fly a kite' and after that we just ended up going through all of the Disney songs. I know we are definitely not normal. This morning when we got up zona spent some time playing on her nexas 7 tablet and I git out my PlayBook to read everyone's lovely blogs. I'm loving reading about Rolex who knows maybe one day I will go. Then we all had some breakfast and Norma and Ken (Zona's mum and dad) went to walk molly, their dog. who is a really sweet border collie. They always walk mol...

Hey y'all Ive just got in bed after a long but great day at centre parcs I love it here. We arrived yesterday at lunch time.and the first thing that we did was go to the dome and go swimming. My best mate then surprised me by giving me a bag full of presents (pictures to come). Zonas mum and dad through a surprise birthday party we had food and cakes and just had a really good time. We then went up to the bowling part of centreparcs that has disco it was really good and I loved it. We had a laugh then came home and watched Eastenders.  Today we got up really early. We watched some television and had breakfast so I took my time just chilling out and catching up reading everyone blogs. Then when we were eventually ready we all headed upto the dome. Which is like this massive swimming centre that has slides and hot tubs and just places to chill by the pool. It's lovely and I always enjoy myself and we have laugh. This evening I had pie and chips we then went back upto the d...

Today its my birthday. I woke up nice and early to undo my presents before ny brother went to school as later on today I will be going to centreparcs with my friend zona the same girl that I went with last year. The funny thing is that not only is it my birthday it is also zonas dads birthday. So today should be a pretty interesting day I'm really looking forward to it. Because I got a car recently my mum got me a sat navigation system for my car. The great thing about this sat nav is that it also works as a hands free for my mobile phone and I can also put music on it from on my ipod and play it through my car speakers. My brother got me a 16GB memory card cause as you can imagine I love my music so will probably have quite a few songs on it. I also got a 'Black x' perfume that I have wanted for years but that I wasn't expecting i love it. One of my understanding gave me 18 £2 coins which I thought we pretty funny, it was stiff typical uncle Neil thing to do. My uncle...

Today was my textiles deadline so it has been a really busy day. I mounted up all my extra photos in the back of my folder my mum helped me by creating me a designer care label that I love. With my textiles coursework now complete it means that I will have more time to focus on my textiles theory and my English example work which means that I might just be able to bring the grades back up but who knows we will have to wait and see what happens closer today.  Tomorrow I go to centreparcs for the weekend so I am sure that there will be lots of pictures for you all and hopefully it will stop raining and the sun will come out for the weekend. Who am I kidding? But a girl can wish anyway!  So far I've taken my car out everyday since I got it a week ago and today was by far the best ride. I managed to do a hill start without stalling. Get us to Sandiacre which is a 20/30 minute drive from my house and park in a parking space all without stalling. Then I reversed out of my p...

Today has been a long day so this won't be a long post. Tomorrow is my textiles dead line so I haven't really done anything but textiles today. Today also would have been the first day of my A2 art coursework it was so annoying to know I've worked for a year at my art work and three weeks from the end I have had to give it up. I also had some really exciting news for me today. As my textiles dead line so is tomorrow i needed to take my pictures in my garment tonight. Well as you will all know recently I have been working really hard to lose weight. About a month ago this garments fit me like a glove well not now. The garments massive on me! I even had to get my mum to pin me into the garment. I was buzzing that I lost weight now all I need to figure out is how to get the garments to stay on for the final textiles fashion show. The pictures that I have taken today will be in a post soon.  I need to be up early tomorrow to finish of  my coursework  So  Until...

Today has been a really good day. I got to bring my art home so when my mum dropped me off for school in the morning all that I had to do was pick it up from my head of years (meaning that I didnt have to see my art teacher) which was great. I then had my timetabled English lesson, which we worked on a practice essay. then during what would have been my first art lesson of the day I stayed in English and wrote three quarters of an essay the last bit I plan to do tomorrow. Then in what would have been my second art lesson of the day I went to textiles and decided that I was going to write question cards as a way of revising for the key aspects of the textiles theory.  During my lunch break my mum met me outside school she got me out of the busy part of Duffield and Little Eaton then we found a safe place to switch and I drove us to Matlock. We soon discovered another reason as to why I was stalling. When I was trying to find my biting point I wasn't getting enough revs up and I...

This is just a quick blog post, I went out with Dean and sue again today and we had a really good time. As an early exams well done and getting a car present they bought me a bag that will go perfectly with my sixth form ball dress. I also had a dress fitting to do with letting my dress out that I ordered and came in the wrong side. Now all I need to figure out is how to have my hair and what to do with my nails.  I've taken my mini out everyday for the past couple of days. Changing my gears has become much smoother and my stalling has become less. We figured out that the reason that I was stalling was the fact that I wasn't putting my hand brake down fully. Once I realised this I was stalling less. I also managed Togo up a really steep hill now two days before when I tried to go up a less steep hill I stalled and my mum had to get in the drivers seat and get me up the hill. Well not this time I managed to get to the top of the hill. Fair enough it was pretty slow but the ...

Gatsby and I had a great ride this morning we have decided that until I feel confident riding without my stirrups. We started off doing about 25 minutes riding with stirrups the rest of the time was working without stirrups. We warmed up making sure to ride long and low. Gatsby was really stretching and it was nice to see. We then moved on to the trot work now for some reason my position was blocking me from getting Gatsby into an outline. But the minute that I took my stirrups away I could get Gatsby in an outline i was so surprised we then decided to move on to doing leg yielding and shoulder-in in the walk and trot without stirrups we finished my lesson with me riding without stirrups. I had a great lesson it was so much fun and something that I can't wait to keep working on. It really improved the position of my leg quite quickly.  Then it was time to go and fetch my car the drive up was long it just seemed to take forever. When we got there I got given the rest of the pap...

This time tomorrow my car will be parked on my drive after I have drove it back from Stoke. One of my longest and all time best mates is coming with me to get it and has decided she is having the front left corner to put in it as much blue as possible. While I love pink Evie hates pink and loves blue. Not only do I get to pock my car up tomorrow but I also get to ride my favourite horse yeah you have got it, Gatsby i might even be having my first bare back ride ever as fiona thinks that it will be a good idea. I have always wanted to try it but I have never had the opportunity to try it. Or a instructor that would push me to do it. Hopefully there will be some video's and pictures of the work that I do tomorrow. I am so excited and none that it will be a good day but for now I am tired so I'm going to head to bed so that tomorrow comes quicker.  Until Next Time  A Girl With A Dream 

Well today's post may end up as a bit of a rant about art. So nothing to do with horses will be in this post. so if you don't want to read it I completely understand that.  Today it has been confirmed that I am no longer doing my art a level course. Unfortunately the issue has not been able to he resolved and to carry on doing the course would stress me out to much and in turn would cause me to be ill. I can't go in to the situation completely because it is being looked into by my school so until that is done I am not really able to talk about it. While I agree that dropping my art is for the best it annoys me that I've spent a year working damn hard on an A Level that with 3 weeks til the end I am not going to be able to finish. It's basically letting my art teacher win but I'm just too tired to keep fighting with him.  This afternoon my sister came over for tea. Which means that I got to see my nephew which always makes me feel better. We had cuddles,...

After having a great day yesterday today has turned out to be not so great. The short story is basically I am no longer an art students after a problem I've dropped art. but that's a post for another day. This post is pictures of the things for my mini and my mini enjoy!!  My car mats black and pink the drivers one is the only one that has the graphics on and up the side you can see where it ways powered by fairy dust. I caved and got more in this set.  This is the folded up boot organiser inside it has two big sections perfect for camera equipment of horse riding things. and on the end you can see in this picture there is also a flap for storage. The inside of my boot organiser.  This attaches to the sun visor its perfect for storing CDs and things like that.   The tax disk holder  This is allowed the collection I have of the powered by fairy dust accessories. Except for my mats as I couldn't figure out how to get them in the pict...

I am officially the proud owner of a green mini one 1.4l with 43000 miles on the clock. This lunch time my mum and I made the trip to Stoke to look at the car. I loved it the green was a really nice shade of it.  we payed then and there for it. So I get to go and pick it up and drive it home on saturday after I have had my lesson on Gatsby. On the way back we stopped at Halfords to buy the L plates that I was going to need and while I was there I looked at the 'powered by fairy dust' range of car accessories they are all pink and black. I knew I was going to need mats as my cars not coming with them so I got the black mats and then on them is pink stitching then it has pink stars on it and a pink fairy and up the side of the mat on the drivers side it says 'powered by fairy dust'. There are all sorts of different things in this range so I think that i will be getting more from this range. When I go and get the car on Saturday my best mate Evie is coming with me. She wi...

Hospital appointment went well this morning. I git left with an open ended appointment. To go back if I thought that there was something that they could do to help me. they said that they thought I was doing well with my coping strategies and being able to ride more, as well as setting myself small goals. So that's went really well. I then spent the day out with Dean and Sue we had a really good laugh and other thoroughly enjoyed it. We went past chatsworth and got to see all the deer they were so close to the road. It was an 'i wish I had my camera with me' moment. Then we just chilled out and had a laugh.  I also have some good news for the past two days I have been looking for cars more specifically a mini. Well we find two and neither of them turned out to be any good. We then found a red one that looked promising but by the time my mum got hold of the person the car was sold. My mum then found what they said was a 'british racing green' Mini One 1.4 for £6...

Tomorrow I am going to a hospital appointment to see the pain clinic I am not holding out much hope that they are going to be able to do anything as they said that they couldn't when I went to see them this time last year. But I agreed with my consultants that I would go because when it gets to June he will no longer be in charge of my care because i will move on to the adult doctors. so he thinks that by me going to the pain clinic it means that if I have a bad turn that I will have a link and someone that I can get in contact with.  After that I am going out with some friends that I have known for years and went out with a couple of weeks ago. I know that we are going for lunch to this awesome fish and chip shop restaurant so that's going to be awesome they seriously do the best ever chicken nuggets I love them. But not sure what else we are going to do.  Today hasn't been the best day so I am going to end this post here. Until Next Time A Girl With A Dream  ...

No stirrup work with Gatsby. Yep that's right I finally decided with a push from my riding teacher to loose the stirrups. I was nervous but I knew that I needed to do it and that doing it would make me feel more confident. I started off by warming Gatsby up with stirrups getting him to work long and low. really stretching.  He was great and you could see on Gatsby and rocky their heave line working not sure if I've spelt that right and you could also see all of their top line working it fascinated me and I cant wait to learn more about it. when I had worked him on both sides I decided it was time to pick up the contact and getting him working in an outline it took a while to get him into it today as it was fairly windy. We moved on to the trot fairly quickly and he was so much easier to get in to an outline he looked fantastic if I do say so myself. His trot was lovely and when we decided to move on to the no stirrup work. We did a few transitional and his trot was so easy to ...

Chilled out day today. I got a lie in this morning as we were not doing the shopping until after the doctor had been. we thought he would be coming in at lunch time but he didn't come til around 1:30 which was fairly late for him. He didn't want to change any of the tablets that he has put her on as he didn't think that she had given them long enough for them to start working on her. Basically the problem is that her heart is failing. Nan's being having morphine as a relaxant and to help her breathing and she was working herself up about it because it is an addictive drug. But she has been told that the small dose and not frequent use of morphine isn't going to do anything to her other than make her feel better.  After this we had to do the shopping in less than an hour as my brother had git a hair dressing appointment. The supermarket was packed with old people and people that just wanted to stand in the way and then when asked to move got grumpy which was ann...

This morning was time for me to get up and early and go up to the stables to help out.  I had to be there for 8:30 and I was staying there til 10:30 we mucked out all the horses, cleaned there waters and put fresh in and then we filled the haynets and hung them up as well as filling the hay nets for tonight. when we had finished that we swept the yard and had finished 20 minutes early so I was talking to Elaine and Fiona about pony club. The launch day for pony club is Monday 29th April at 4;30 every 12 weeks there will be assessments towards badges. Well work through bronze the gold levels and then levels E to A and at either a or b we can do our stage three. Instead of having to do one, two and then three.  I can't wait to do it, I've sent my pony club form off today.  Mum picked me up at 10:30. we then had to go to the other side if derby to dressmaker about my sixth form ball dress. To start with she didn't think she could do anything but when looking inside and ...

Well today I went to the wildlife leisure place to go painting, the only downside to this plan was that I had to be up and out the door by 8/8:10am now for those of you that know me I am not a morning person. But I'd told my best mate that I was going and that was that.  For an hour we had to stand around waiting for everyone to get organised because there were that many of us. But once we could get going the adrenaline started the first game that we played was capture the flag. We split in to two teams that we stayed in for the rest of the day unfortunately this meant that Evie and I were going to be against each other. This really bought out the competitive side in both of us which can be either really good or really bad. We drew on the first game and then we had time switch bases and a the way through til about 2 minutes off the end of the game we were going to draw again but at the last minute the other team did manage to capture our flag, we then just chilled out for about 15...

Sorry for no blog post yesterday I fell asleep at 6:30pm last night and slept through til this morning. Last morning I went upto the stables and spent a few hours mucking out I also got to experience a vet coming out. She was coming to see elaines shetland ponies Rocky and Dixie. I got to see this really cool mini x-ray machine I'd never seen it before and thought that it was cool that they could take x-rays at stables. I also sorted out that on Thursday I am going to go and help out in the morning and then at 2 I'm going to go back home to get a free ride on Gatsby for the work that I have done. Then I should have been doing an own a pony day on Friday but fionas had to cancel it because they're was not enough interest. but I will be having my normal riding lesson on Saturday.  Tomorrow I am doing something that I never thought I would do. I'm going paint balling my best mates been having a bad time recently so today we went through your out for a drive we went al...

First of all I would like to say wow at this moment in time I have had 5592 Page views when I first started this blog I never thought that many people would read it. Today has been a fairly relaxed day I didn't think that I was going to be up that early this morning as I wasn't going anywhere. But I was awake nice and early this morning. When I first woke up I spent some time on my PlayBook putting my riding videos on to  YouTube and then uploading them om to here. I did it all on my PlayBook and found it was actually much faster to upload videos on to YouTube than if I had been using my mac. after this I had something to eat and watched a riding programme on the horse and country channel about Tina Cook. I found it quite interesting but also quite inspiring how when she is in the saddle that nothing else that is going on in her life effects her performance. I know that when I am having a bad day I let it effect my riding and that's something that I really want to stop d...

Here's some video's of Gatsby and I in our lesson yesterday. Compared to a few weeks ago I think you can see a big difference the transitions are smoother and the canter work is generally calmer and lasts for longer. I am really happy with how my canter work is developing. If anyone has any suggestions or tips after they have watched the videos then please feel free to comment with them. I appreciate everyones advice. I hope that you enjoy the videos.  Until next time.  A Girl With A Dream 

Well this morning my PlayBook came I was really excited and asked my mum to wake my up when it came even if that's at 8:30 this morning. I set it up even though my mum had to help me with setting up my Emails because it wanted to know all the advanced settings that I didn't know.  Then it was time to go and ride Gatsby he was abit of a pain when it came to grooming him as he has issues with people touching his ears so he kept putting his head really high. When he was eventually clean I tacked him up and it was time to get on him. When I got one him the sun was shining and it turned out to be the perfect weather it wasn't too hot and it wasn't too cold. It was just right. Only down side was that there were millions of flies, and they were driving Gatsby and Rosie mad. I quickly sorted my girth and stirrups nd moved on to warming him up. Fiona said that we were going to carry on working with the canter and then maybe move on to working on the sitting trot but doing i...

This morning I was dead excited because I thought that my playbook was going to come, so I wasn't very happy when the post came and it wasn't there. Because it hadn't come I went to help my mum do the shopping then when we got back I went to see my nan for a bit and thought that I would look online and see when it was going to be delivered, well when I looked there was no sign of it. So mum rang Royal mail and they hadn't got it, there wasn't a phone number to ring the company that I got it from so it was just going to be a waiting game. However just now (10pm) I thought that I would check online and see if it showed up on Royal Mail and it does! So hopefully it should be coming tomorrow, one of the first thing that I am going to do is put the Kindle app on it, and maybe instagram! I know that it comes with a word on the go programme and things like this, so it's going to be fun playing with it and getting to look at it and know it better.  My sister was al...

Today was the day that my Nan was going to hospital, we managed to get her to the hospital by using the ambulance people that fetch you and bring you back, on the way there they had enough room for my Uncle to go with her as an 'escort' which everyone agreed that she really needed, however on the way back they didn't think that they would have room. When they got there she went to have a chest x-ray first, and then she was going to the fractures clinic the first part was relatively easy, the second part not so much! Turns out when she was in hospital over a month ago the ward decided to cancel the appointment and didn't tell anyone! So my Uncle and Nan stood their ground and insisted that they she was to be seen today! So while they had to stand and wait they did get seen. I'm not sure whether she had it re x-rayed but she has had the cast taken off. Both my mum and I were surprised that they didn't give her a splint to support the hand whilst it is getting str...

Today I spent the day at home, I've not been sleeping very well recently so when I didn't get up early my mum let me sleep in for a bit. When I did get up I went to keep my Nan company for a while and wait with her until the Doctor came. When he came he told us that until next week at the earliest there is nothing that he can do because he couldn't even get a reading on her blood pressure, and her pulse was very weak to. Tomorrow my Nan's going to get her cast taken off so that should help her to do more things and while she is there she is going to be getting a chest X-Ray. So that our Doctor can figure out what he can to do to help her. But at the minute it doesn't look like there is a lot that he can do for her.  For a while I have been looking at Kindles and I've always liked the idea of a Kindle and my dad's got one. Tonight I decided to have a look at what tablets were out at the minute. As some of you will know I am blackberry addict. My phone...

Today I went out with Dean and Sue, when I first met them I was working at a stables and used to lead Sue when she was having a lesson and we just got on really well, which was awesome and we have kept in contact ever since. Today we went out to look at some art things at the range, as well as things for the Garden and the house, and then went to this really nice fish and chip shop, it is lush! Then we went up through chatsworth to see the baby deer but they weren't out today, so we pulled up in a lay by and just sat and had a chat for a few hours. It was really fun and gave me a break from doing work. I always enjoy going out with them and because I've got two weeks off we're going to go out and do something next week as well.  Unfortunately I won't be having any Gatsby time tomorrow. I was originally going to be going up for 8:30 but then we realised that there would be no way for me to get back as my Uncle is a way on business, my Dad's at work and my Brothe...

Today's been another day when I managed to accomplish doing some more art work. I decided that no matter how much I try and put off doing it I am still going to have to do it and I can't change that, so I'm  not going to complain (much) and just going to get on with it. Today I did an artist study that I'll be able to mount up Wednesday/Thursday time as I have run out of black A1 card, so that's two sheets down and just another four sheets to go! Then after I had done that I decided that I was going to do some English work too, before we broke up we got given a sheet that was split in to two columns, one column was filled in with important things to do with Paradise Lost and the other side was for us to fill in with links/comparisons/quotes from the White Devil.  I think to make it as thorough as possible for revision that it is going to take a couple of days for me to get it done. But once I've done it I think that it is going to be really helpful. Tomorro...