Here Comes Summer!

Last weekend saw the first glimpse of Summer and here's hoping its the start of a lovely sunny season (but with bank holiday weekend coming up i'm not holding my breathe!). We made the most of it at the weekend and headed out for a hack nice and early. When we got back to the yard it was lovely to give the horses a gorgeous bath- Barney thoroughly enjoyed his full on wash and was glowing bright white by the time i'd finished with him! It's always nice to see those feathers sparkling...

With the warmer weather its time to pack up your Winter rugs for another year (perhaps after a thorough wash that is). I had a good old sort out at the yard the weekend and with limited space I bought some of the rugs home and put them in to my Bentley Horse Rug Storage Bag. If you're short on space why not keep your garage neat with one of these bags?

In addition we all know that Summer brings with it many flies and we spend no end on fly repellant! At The Horse Diva we now stock the fab new 2 in 1 fly repellant and skin tonic with neem and Lemon Eucalyptus essential oils. This is great for keeping flies away and keeping your horses coat in fab condition for the show season.

On that note I am heading down to the yard to hack out on this glorious evening. It's great being able to ride before or after work- we love the summer!!!

Have a great bank holiday- i'm off to Hertfordshire County Show- let's hope its a good one!

Badminton Horse Trials

Well every year I head off to Burghley Horse Trials and with Garden Divas we have even worked the weekend selling our gorgeous goodies at the event! However last Bank Holiday I was faced with the prospect of working all weekend (help!). Suddenly I realised it was the weekend of Badminton Horse Trials and that was it I was straight on the website to find out ticket prices, directions and times etc....

So come Sunday myself and my non horsey partner Simon (who I think only came along as he was heading out with the boys the next day and wanted to keep me sweet ;-) ) ventured off in the absolutely POURING rain!!! As we drove the rain got worse and worse and well quite frankly worse! Panic started to set in as I realised i'd only got a light waterproof and no change of outfit. Two and a half hours later we arrived and followed the twists and turns into the grounds. Mud was visible and with further rain falling I had visions of Burghley 2008 (check out the Garden Divas blog for a photographic explanation haha). No sooner had we got out the car and the rain stopped yippeeee! So off we headed to walk the Cross Country Course which was quite simply fantastic. It’s a fair way round so I had to keep Simon entertained with various food and drink stalls- not a problem for me as I got to sample a few things J. Once we’d walked the course I happily stood and watched Zara Phillips warm up whilst Simon waited for his donuts! Then it was time to hit the shops.... What greater way to spend the day- horses and shopping! I have to say I did come home with a few fabulous purchases but then the day would’ve been wasted if I didn’t. I could have happily spent another day there, we didn’t manage to get all the way round but perhaps that was a good thing- I was rapidly running out of pennies! Here are a few snaps from the day...I think we only actually managed to get five or so photos with the horses actually in (photography is clearly not my forte!). All in all a great day- can’t wait for Burghley now. And who knows, perhaps next year we’ll have a Horse Diva Stall!!!