What a week

We have managed to accomplish a staggering number of things this week. One of our finer achievements was whilst piping the stream cutting through the neighbours BT line. We don't particularly like the neighbours. Their children poke our dogs with sticks through the fence, and they asked me to make the horses quieter at night as their breathing was disturbing them. Err. Ok . I will just ask them not to breathe overnight.
So you can imagine my delight when Team BT turned up to tell me the neighbours thought we had cut through their lines. I denied any such line severing, until they told me the line was the width of a biro, and ran under my back garden and along the stream. Oops. So indeed we had cut through it when excavating with a JCB. Arse.
So a little later Team BT had found the break and repaired it, and I felt rather silly. I thought that phone lines ran overground. This is probably a good reason why I shouldn't work for a phone company.
Then on Saturday 2 of my most loved friends got married. I have been looking forward to it for ages. She is perfect for him, they make a perfect couple, and will no doubt live happily ever after. As the wedding was only an hour away and didn't start until 3 we ran a few errands in the morning and then, obviously, got caught in traffic, changed frantically and broke many speed limits to arrive on time. Which we did. Just!
They day was complete success, stunning church, lovely reception at her parents place. Alice was so overstimulated she declined to have her afternoon nap, then played with the lovely people on our table who passed her around and were extremely good company. She even had a little dance on the dance floor until she fell fast asleep at 9pm and we headed home.
She slept in until 10.30am the next day- I think we wore her out. For those of you not on FB here is a link to some piccies-
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=131537&id=739650931&l=6c07c78de9
Then on Sunday we popped over to Glenfields hospital to visit Millar who was doing incredibly well post op, and should escape from hospital today. We also popped into ICU to drop some bits in for the nurses there and the nurse who looked after Alice was there, remembered us and was really happy to see her looking so well. It was really nice to see her- and a bit random as she had stopped working in ICU as it was pretty harrowing, and only agreed to come in that day as they were very very short staffed- and happened to bump into us.
And Sunday PM Mark helped me with the ponies. And we thought we would lead Alice around on Woody. Woody has as much go in her as a sloth, and an IQ of about 2. She is the most non offensive horse ever, as she just doesnt have the brain power to do anything other than what she is told. I find it irritating at times to be honest, she is uber dumb- but she looked after Alice so so well. Alice did some laps of the yard and menage held on by Mark. She was screaming with laughter and patting Woody. It was great. She looked quite sad when she got off, so we let her ride Woody to the field and give her a carrot, then she rode Merlyn to the field ( who tolerated her with his usual good grace- whilst looking at me as if I was mad), and then she sat on Alby, who wasn't so sure so she got taken off. But the seed has been sown- she does love her ponies! And I think Woody is ideal for small person prodding poking and sitting upon. So a great weekend for all xoxo