Tuesday 8th Dec. Hmmmm.

A nice sunny day, I took Anky into the school.
Anky was not with me, yet again, she was out there checking out the monsters.
She did some droppings so I decided to dismount and do a little in-hand to try and get her to focus.
I did up the reins and left her to her own devices whilst I cleaned up the droppings, she was up at the gate ignoring me, so I cleared a few leaves from the corner of the school and she stayed down at the gate, keeping her distance from me. Hehe, "please open the gate and let me go back to the yard" she seemed to be saying. Jim arrived at that moment with the dogs, wondering why Anky was standing on her own at the gate. She suddenly set off at a canter and then had a few minutes cantering round, threatening to tip up and skidding into the corner nearest the gate. Jim said " you should catch that horse and I just said "should I?". I just thought it would be better to let her stop in her own time and see if she would come to me. Anyway the distraction of Jim and the dogs seemed to be making her worse so I told him to leave and I waited until she had started to calm and came up to me. I stood very quietly with her for a few minutes, then clipped her up and started to lead her around the school at walk. I stood at her shoulder and asked her to walk on, me taking up a position as in-hand and she walked off purposefully and we did walk halt transitions on both reins for the next few minutes using all the school. She was quite calm as we finished so I remounted and walked her back up the lane home. Not sure what to think of it all really.