bramham horse trials

cross country was today, so off we went for a days shopping and walking....

the shopping went well - one new pair of Ariat Conistons, one new Joules tweed jacket (reduced in the sale or i wouldn't have bought it, it wasn't on the agenda) one name plate for Monfils stable door

I ended up wearing the Conistons - the box they were in collapsed not long after we left shop (the handles fell off) so the easiest way of dealing with that was to wear them, and put the short boots i had on in the other bag wrapped up with the jacket etc.

the walking went well as well - we did only the 2nd half of the course, and i didn't do all of that ( my hip isn't really up to too much of that, especially up and down hill) but enjoyed what we walked (allison did more)

Felt sorry for Tina Gifford - horse slipped between 2nd & 3rd elements of the fence we were at, thus had NO chance of making the 3rd element, but of course counted as a refusal, so she retired - apparently she'd had a stop earlier in the course