It's been a very very tiring but rewarding day. Up at 7.30 again for lesson on T with Mandy. Most of this one was in trot and I really feel I'm starting to get to grips with lots of things I hadn't really got a grip on. Really thrilled with this and for the first time today, I realised afterwards, I didn't have the slightest of butterflies about getting on him. After the lesson he shared another pile of haylage with Angie :)
This afternoon Knickers and I decided to take Angie with us to poo pick T's field. At first she loitered near his stable but when we rounded the corner she came over at what can best be described as a fast waddle just as T wandered over, and they had their first encounter at liberty. He was ace, really sweet and gentle. She was a little bit nervous and butted him on the nose, which gave us the opportunity to see what he looks like with an exclamation mark hovering over his head, and that was that. She came with us to poo pick, just like a dog would. What a fabulous creature she is.
Next we had a visit from Bob from the local goat sanctuary, who came to assess us as a potential adoption site. We'd cleaned up the yard to make everything spick and span for the inspection, and of course there was the small matter of the capacious goat hotel that is currently under construction in the middle of the yard. Bob was great and the upshot was that we're going to visit next weekend to look at potential companions for Angie.
A couple of Angie factoids:
* everyone who meets her seems to fall in love. Even as goats go, she's damn cute. A couple of farmer friends popped in to help us shift a bale of haylage midweek, and spent a pleasant half hour completely and utterly taking the piss out of us for getting a goat, particularly when it emerged that we'd paid for her. Then when they saw her "oh she's sweet isn't she", followed by "can I go in with her?"
* we were talking to the lady who works in the farm shop in the village, who used to work at the farm shop from whence Angie came, and bugger me if she didn't have a photo of Angie on her phone - driving a tractor. I kid you not. See what I did there?
Meanwhile the goat hotel "maison chevre" is coming on a treat.
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