Phew! The car passed it's MOT. I feel as though I have been givien a reprieve at the eleventh hour for a crime I didn't committ. Silly isn't it? Even a pass costs over a hundred pounds now. Obscene really. But at least that's done for another year.

Struggling to find a "trial and tribulation" at the moment. Things are moving along nicely and I am touching wood as I type that it will stay that way for a little while. Strangles more or less a thing of the past as is the conjunctivitis although we still aren't happy about Sparky's eyes, they aren't quite right. We will cease the ointment and wait to see what happens and if the treatment was masking anything else. The prospective loanee for Bonny came over today, haven't heard from them for a couple of months, in fact we thought they had given up but they showed up today and the final arrangements for the animal are now in place.

And a break or two in the rain for most of the day meant that Millie and Adele had another outing and training session. It is obvious that Millie is bored with walking round and round the school as she wouldn't. Just stopped and stood there for ages at a time, Adrian and myself urging her on as nicely as we could without leading her but it was quite clear that she wasn't interested in what we were doing. She wasn't frightened or worried or anything, just not interested. Adele was much better, did several circuits of the school with a rider and is much more responsive than Millie. We know Millie well enough to realise that the next move has to be outside the gate and along the lanes. You really have to keep one step ahead of her all the time as she has a very low boredom threshold. She will be interested again if we take her round the lane but only once or twice and then we will have to go another direction with her even if it is just the reverse of the original one. We will also have to start long reining her as she has only ever been lead (when she wasn't leading us) and doesn't understand the leg aids yet. I predict much fun over the next months.