You might be reassured to know that there are days when I sit down to scribble this twaddle and think, to use modern jargon, how ridiculous is this? But you have had a surfeit of value added from me recently and with reports streaming in all week concerning goings on at the Newmarket and Thurlow Pony Club this is too tempting though I may be about to hit an all time low. As you will have gleaned from some of my previous emails we have high hopes for Hen. This despite the fact that when asked some months back what she wanted to be when she left school she announced she wanted to be a receptionist, cocking her head onto her shoulder and looking critically, but admiringly at her finger nails. Back to Pony Club Camp....for a couple of years now there has been a really charming boy, also a member of the Newmarket and Thurlow, who we thought would be a suitable friend for Hen. He doesn't fall off his horse. He's sensible. And we like his parents. Hen though has never shown the slightest inclination to get to know him. That was until yesterday when Sophie went to help out in the early evening at camp and espied Hen, a group of girls and Harry coming out of a stable together. How do you feel when a plan comes together? It is a pleasing thing. But there's invariably a twist to the tale when it comes to Hen. A little while later they were all still together and Sophie was standing talking to one of Hen's friends, when she heard one of the girls, not Hen I am pleased to say, turn on Harry and snarl....."Why are you following us, you stalker?" So whilst hope is not completely lost, it's not looking good.
Talking ponies, when you are scanning your copy of this weeks edition of Country Life keep an eye out for a nice photograph, in The Dog of the Week section, of a good looking polo pony that I rode the other evening at the Cambridge University Polo Club. Fame indeed.
Off on holiday for the next two weeks. I am braced for a torrent of abuse from a number of you but before you lambast me can I just tell you that this will be the first two week holiday I have taken in nearly 5 years.....no need to worry about passports yet either. We are off to Scotland.
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