A cacophony of sound.........

.....just about sums up our ride out today.  I had my french lesson this morning (I'm just too tired to write this in french) so Remy had a day off. This afternoon I hacked out with Anky and from start to finish we had a succession of things making noise and giving Anky something to worry about. She was a little star though, striding out with a walk that definitely had potential. To start we had our neighbour dragging  logs across his garden with a quad bike, next a little old guy, hidden behind a tree and suddenly starting up his chain saw (it seems to be a time for 'doing things' with logs).We pass a stone cutting building and today the stone cutting man was busy cutting some lovely pink granite whilst his colleagues were power washing the lorry -  a very unsettling sound. Further along there's a new house just starting to be built and there was new machinery including a cement mixer, in mid mix. At this point Anky turned to me and said 'I'd really rather not mum'.  I dismounted and led her past, snorting and looking rather fabulous, after which we stopped for a few minutes for a breather and I let her eat some grass. When I got back on and headed for home she decided that she might possibly be able to pass the scary mixer and once past, it was plain sailing all the way home. An exciting ride, thoroughly enjoyable.  She seems to be coping without her boots too which is good news.