Rainbows.

It has turned chilly again. The morning was dry but by the afternoon unpleasant icy showers began blown in by strong south-easterly winds.

Once again I had the lovely Tex. There were only five of us in the lesson and one of the guys who is a very experienced rider rode the new horse May. She's only 7 and was prancing around full of energy. As she's still getting used to the other horses we had to give her plenty of room to be on the safe side.

Last week with Katie's help I got Tex to arch his neck a couple of times so that's what I worked on this week. I began by asking him to round his neck more when I was doing downward transitions (stopping for a few moments) across the school and eventually there was improvement as we trotted round. 

And then we did something different. Katie asked me when I last did any work without stirrups, probably over 30 years ago! but Tex is comfy and I enjoy sitting trot anyway so I spent over half the lesson without stirrups. One of the others also rode without stirrups on a bouncier pony and everybody in the lesson worked on their own thing quite happily.

 

Here I am after the lesson. You can see just how tiddly Tex is. He has a bit of a grumpy demeanour and his ears are often pointing backwards which is why I was trying to get him to point them forward. He was not impressed.

Afterwards I went shopping, bought more lights for the sitting room and took some clothes to the charity shop. I met a couple of people I know in town. One from choir and one from the walking group. 

As I approached Borth I took in the view across the bog over to Snowdonia when suddenly there was a break in the clouds and a bright rainbow. There's one spot on the road where I can see our red roof and today the foot of the rainbow was in the road right next to the house. I couldn't stop on the hill as there was a car close behind me. I was hoping to get a photo of the rainbow over the beach but by the time I got home and raced through the house there was no sign at all of the rainbow.

But later there was another double rainbow.

Something to make you smile - this FB Reel was filmed last night at disco aerobics. I'm bopping around at the front in my silver top to music that was at full volume.