busy day! with some success....

firstly, the plumber to mend my upstairs loo (thank goodness we have two!)

then, back to the yard to wait for bedding delivery - that was an interesting job, it was palletised, should have been easy, but there was a slight fault with the wagon's tailgate upon which the pallet is put to be lifted up and down, and ALSO he said no can't put it in the allocated space indoors due to unlevel surface - but anyway, had to handball half the bags off before he could get the pallet off his tailgate, otherwise it would have all tipped over...

than after lunch, got M in early, got the mud off and into the arena to see how far we could get towards lunging..... as it goes, he was happy to walk on out away from me on both reins, but occasionally allowed himself to be distracted by the mares....

a great improvement on previously so i think on balance we are starting to get there, and he's certainly thinking about what I'm asking more than he used to .....