Denise's Diary

July.........Hot & Humid!!

As you see the results of the photoshoot in June was a great success, Ash and Safir munching hay quite relaxed!

July was quite busy in the stables with plenty of visitors and a steady stream of children having lead-rein rides as well as a few adults.

Faisal came back from leave and Ria went for three weeks holiday back to England, she will return before Ramadan.

Tawfiq came down with a mild colic on Saturday 3rd July at 23.00hrs, I administered an antispasmodic injection, (intravenous) and he recovered quickly. Masoud kept an eye on him for the remainder of the night but all was well and he enjoyed a light breakfast without any ill effects.

Jeff went lame on his near fore and was spoilt with cold packs and massages given to him by Ria, he obviously enjoyed all the attention for that week. Gandalf took over his rubbish cart duties in  the village for the two weekends as we rested Jeff for a week after he came sound. We had to put Gandalf on a diet as it was a bit of a squeeze getting him between the shafts the first two days. Poor lad had to put up with jokes about us having to grease the shafts to get him in! Even so we had to adjust his harness out a few notches!! He is now less rotund but we have to keep an eye on his feed from now on.

Sabiha's schooling is now progressing well, we are trotting nicely on both reins and she has broken into a canter a couple of times but came back to the trot with a decent transition. She is well balanced and has forward going paces, I am hoping her habit of diving off to the left is permanantly behind us.

We now have a new stables office next to the donkey stables, a large refrigerator has been installed so now we can sell soft drinks, water and sweets to our visitors as well as having a cool place to sit. The medicines have been moved from my house into the tack room so are nearer to hand when required.