more in hand

after a weekend off for monf - because saturday, time i'd been to my mother's (she's not well) and then had a prebooked evening at Durham Cathedral, there was no time and on Sunday the wind was truly awful everywhere (except in the stable yard, which is sheltered).  so Gaynor and i hosed off mats and stable walls, and G did her back in...

so tonight, still somewhat windy and very hot, i concluded in hand work was in order....

The horses have what seems to me to be "mud fever" (which isn't, of course, anything to do with mud), a few scabs on M's heels, so put some appropriate cream on them..