Pas cet après-midi et pas même un "désolé"

It was my french lesson this morning so I didn't get to ride until this afternoon, and by then the chill had gone and it was pleasantly warm.
I took Remy into the school and started with lungeing, a short session, moving him about the school and finishing with work on the circle, lots of transitions, trying to get him to relax and stretch down. He did quite well on the left rein, not so good on the right where he has a habit of hanging on the rein and falling out through his shoulder. I varied the size of the circle and he did start to relax a little.
Before riding I did a little in-hand, working on the exercise that I did yesterday with Anky - Halt, rein-back, walk forward, turn on the forehand then repeat. He managed this well, so I then tried it onboard and I was really pleased at how well he responded and how well he listened.
I then rode Anky in the school, the same work as yesterday and finished with some trot transitions. She was very responsive in the walk with fluid changes of bend and the rein-back was a little better than yesterday.
Today, I prepared her for the trot transition on the circle, asking for flexion to the inside, allowing her to lengthen her neck a little and making sure that she was soft to my inside leg before asking for the transition. It worked really well on the right rein and she moved off nicely and stayed soft in the hand. On the left rein, although she gave me the flexion to the inside and was soft to my inside leg, when I asked for the transition she resisted on the outside rein and hollowed. I was really pleased with the session though, and overall an improvement on yesterday :-)
We ordered the tiles yesterday for our horse shelter and they actually had them in stock. They promised to deliver this afternoon so Jim's been hanging around waiting for them. At 5.45 they'd still not been, nor did they come. Now that's a surprise!!!