Ok so tuesday was the last installment. since then we have obviously had wed, thurs, fri and sat and now it is sunday!

Wed 14th novemeber - got up at the crack of dawn again to sort the horses out and ride rosco and rusty. after having a bit of a play on my two ponies, i fed watered and cleaned up after the messy creatures. then got showered and changed and read for a while before getting ready for work - naturally i had a bit of a snooze before getting ready - was a bit tired after being up at stupid o clock in the morning. I then went to work, taught all afternoon and then came home and had dinner with james and eleta as they were back from their mini holiday. they filled me in on all of olis mischief moments - one that included him making a new location for the toilet in the middle of the hotel carpet as well as becoming the devil child! so after a bottle of wine later i went to bed - ahhhh the beauty of living with someone who works for a winery.

Thursday 15th Nov - decided that as i was still a bit burnt from tuesdays beach fiasco that i should avoid the beach or any sunbathing activities so thought that i would chill out at home catch up on some sleep, ride my ponies, play with the not so billiant guard dogs and have a good old natter with eleta. went into midland and got lost as ive never had to drive there on my own before and got some bits and pieces and then came home and bounced around on the trampoline for a bit to Maroon 5! while i was bouncing the horses were going crazy in the padocks so i went to have a look to see what they were doing. one of the horses owned by a guy that breeds and races trotters next door had let the brood mare and her 4 day old foal out into the padock next to our horses along with the rest of his trotters . so our lot were showing themselves off to the new foal and his mum. after a while the horses in our padocks and the trotters padocks stopped going mad so i thought thankgod - no ones broken anything. unfortunatley later on i found out that the reason that they had all stopped going insane was because one of the other trotters had broken a couple of the fences and the brood mare had managed to get stuck in it somehow and fallen into a ditch and was crippled. the owner had to have her put down and the foal is now an orphan. we later found out that the reason shes gone into the fence was because she had been bitten by a snake and then ran straight into the broken fece in fright. it was horrible.

i have decided that my idea of coming back all tanned and skinny is only going to work if i sort out the exercise part - the tanning bit i have covered, figure if i go to thebeach at least once a week then i'll be bronzed (not tangoed- ahem chantal!) in no time. just need to work on the skinny bit. got 2 horse coming back into work so that will mean 4 horses to ride until rosco is sold and then i'll have 3 so thats a lot and then i will also have the schoolies to ride if i want so going to take advantage of that! anyhoo after bouncing for a while eleta and oli came back so oli helped me to make the horses tea and then we fed the horses. We had tea and wine and chocolate (so much for the skinny plan!) and then sleep!

November 16th. friday - rosco was gettign veted today by the people that have been looking at him for a couple of weeks. so after riding rusty and then feeding all the horses the vet appeared and vet checked him. those who have ever seen this process knows that it is very stressful for both owner and potential buyer. luckily rosco passed with flying colours and the potential buyers went away to think about it. Eleta was in tears as we all knew that they were going to say yes they wanted him. im a bit upset as well cos hes a cool little horse - gorgeous looking as well. so i went to work, james went to work, eleta cryed somemore and then halfway to work got a call from eleta to say that they had bought him but we still had him for a couple of weeks as they were off on holiday for a while. so taught all morning then had lunch and then rode ernie - one of the schoolies who decided it would be fun to try and wrip holes in myhands - not nice. taught all evening and then came home fed the horse and had tea - more wine, chocolate and then bed.

Sat 17th november - after getting up early to ride rusty and then feed them all, i went into work and taught all day. when eleta came in, she proceeded o tell me that i was going to be teaching a young guy (mid to late 20s) how to ride. so we had a bit of joke that because he sounded nice on the phone that he would be theis twiggy ugly horrible looking guy but nice to talk to. she was like- 'ok you can have him, see if we can set you up with him'! hmmmmmmm was my reaction - the boat thing didnt work so well so i was hardly expecting a much given her matchmaking skills so far! anyway as i was half way through the lesson before this guys lesson, in walks this guy who is (and there aren't many other words to describe it but) the FITTEST guy you have ever seen!!!! seconds later i get a text (still teaching a 5 yr old ex pat from liverpool how to ride) from eleta saying F.I.T! i burst out laughing! was quite lucky that the little girl i was still teaching was telling a joke at the time! so anyway i finished that lesson and then moved on to the guys lesson - hes called micheal so i will refer to him by his name instead of the fit bloke that i was teaching. so was teaching micheal and then before he got on he started bouncing around on his knees and looked a bit frog like - stared laughing again - not very professional i know but hey! and then after he got on he starteddoing some funny things with his legs and practically falling off the back of the saddle - apparently eleta had said something about getting to close to the front of the saddle and ending up with a very high pitched voice - im sure u can put 2 and 2 together. so after finishing my lesson with micheal and some funny leg manouvers later as well as a few messages from eleta requesting that he came in arseless chaps for his next lesson i went home from work. showered and changed and packed up my flat as i was moving into eleta and james house for a few days as Matt Ryan and his wife marie and daughter millie were coming to stay for a few days before going off for clayton fredricks birthday party. so packed and cleaned the flat a bit and then moved into eletas. we had dinner (fillet steak! mmmmmmmm) and then more wine. bed! eleta and james were going to pick up matt and marie from the airport so i was incharge for a few hours in the middle of the night - luckily i was aloud to be asleep!

so thats it. its now sunday, matt and marie and millie are here, they both seem nice - millies not said much but she can be forgiven she is only 16 months old so thats ok. off for lunch now so will catch up soon. more details from people please xxxx