Grace and I decided to go to Netly show jumping for the weekend . No idea where this show is but it was holding a British novice championship which would qualify her for the national championships if she wins , which means she could then come with me to the national champs ,which is a hell of a show for the cv.
Having looked at the map , I decided 3hours was just too far, so I asked her to cancel it. However , she’d already paid , so Netly hall it is !!
It actually took four hours , quite a pleasant journey , I must say, no stress. We arrived in daylight thankfully, to what looked like a field in the middle of nowhere, with loads of trailers and old Bedford t k s about the place , you don’t see many of them anymore , I also
Noticed the people of Shrewsbury speak very well and are secretly quite posh!!
As we drove in and grace spent a few mins searching for some help , to no avail I then decided to jump out and find out who is in charge . It turned out that the two young lads with the clip boards were the ” stable managers” . They actually had no clue what was going on. At this point I was about to explode , but it’s so difficult to get angry with a very polite public school boy, who actually turned out to be very sweet and more helpful than any show I’ve ever been too. Funny as it was .
Grace and I the decided to look for the show ground now the horses were settled and eating their hay, I’ve learnt to bring all provisions as all away shows get very messy.
Shock horror , the arena was in fact tiny, and the warm up even worse , it dawned on me I may not jump sky at all this weekend . Sigh and eyes rolling ….
I was wondering why anyone would give this place good reports , and how the hell would they get a 130/140 in that tiny arena ….I did in fact ask on face book and many people confirmed it was good . Wow , I’m now wondering if these people that think it’s good are just comparing it with something awful.
I decided to go and find a bar, I definitely fancied a glass of wine at this point . On the way to the bar I noticed another arena behind it , suddenly I became hopeful again..there it was a much better sized arena , with an average to small warm up – still not coming back- it’s no addington , but it’s ok , I will be able to jump sky now. So forget the wiine , I’m fairly tired . I decided to go back to the “field” and join the other campers , literally. No one had living they are all in tents, frightfully posh, very friendly but yes most definitely old school money. Surprisingly I’m quite enjoying the comedy side to it.
I woke up this am after a very good deep sleep , the showground completely taken over now with lorries . But sky seems quite happy and I’m looking forward to the day ahead…now for a fry up!!
Having looked at the map , I decided 3hours was just too far, so I asked her to cancel it. However , she’d already paid , so Netly hall it is !!
It actually took four hours , quite a pleasant journey , I must say, no stress. We arrived in daylight thankfully, to what looked like a field in the middle of nowhere, with loads of trailers and old Bedford t k s about the place , you don’t see many of them anymore , I also
Noticed the people of Shrewsbury speak very well and are secretly quite posh!!
As we drove in and grace spent a few mins searching for some help , to no avail I then decided to jump out and find out who is in charge . It turned out that the two young lads with the clip boards were the ” stable managers” . They actually had no clue what was going on. At this point I was about to explode , but it’s so difficult to get angry with a very polite public school boy, who actually turned out to be very sweet and more helpful than any show I’ve ever been too. Funny as it was .
Grace and I the decided to look for the show ground now the horses were settled and eating their hay, I’ve learnt to bring all provisions as all away shows get very messy.
Shock horror , the arena was in fact tiny, and the warm up even worse , it dawned on me I may not jump sky at all this weekend . Sigh and eyes rolling ….
I was wondering why anyone would give this place good reports , and how the hell would they get a 130/140 in that tiny arena ….I did in fact ask on face book and many people confirmed it was good . Wow , I’m now wondering if these people that think it’s good are just comparing it with something awful.
I decided to go and find a bar, I definitely fancied a glass of wine at this point . On the way to the bar I noticed another arena behind it , suddenly I became hopeful again..there it was a much better sized arena , with an average to small warm up – still not coming back- it’s no addington , but it’s ok , I will be able to jump sky now. So forget the wiine , I’m fairly tired . I decided to go back to the “field” and join the other campers , literally. No one had living they are all in tents, frightfully posh, very friendly but yes most definitely old school money. Surprisingly I’m quite enjoying the comedy side to it.
I woke up this am after a very good deep sleep , the showground completely taken over now with lorries . But sky seems quite happy and I’m looking forward to the day ahead…now for a fry up!!