Running With Dogs

Guinness and I went for an 8km run this morning, just a short one so I would be able to do more than half a km tomorrow. When he had a poo, I picked it up with a plastic bag, as you do, and continued our run. I had brought with me a stick to ward off loose marauding dogs, and at around the 5km mark, I noticed a particularly strong smell of dog poo. Checked my shoes, and nothing was stuck to them. I thought perhaps the bag was leaking so on checking that, I found that by carrying the poo bag and the stick in the same hand, the stick had torn the poo bag, and I now had dog poo on my shirt, shorts and thighs. So the bad smell was me. Fortunately after 16 years in the veterinary industry, dog poo isn’t a big deal to me, however the kidlets wouldn’t come near me when I got home, hehe.

After breakfast, we went to Slickers Horseriding for a half hour ride with Karen and her boys. The kidlets did really well, Miss 8 rode for the first time without being led and was quite cool and confident. Master 5 was led on a tiny white pony called Pixie - children have to be led until they’re 7 years old. I was on a massive!!! (well, it seemed that way) grey horse called Max, and both Karen and I just about had kittens when the horse shifted, or stomped to shake off a fly. I haven’t ridden for so many years, and I wasn’t much chop then, so it was a bit hairy for a while. Fortunately Max was a very laid back horse, and quite responsive to commands, and we had a great time. Went to Karen’s for a play afterwards, and really did nothing much else for the rest of the day.

We went to Indian Brothers  restaurant for dinner - great food, nice staff, very inexpensive and the kids loved it. I think we’ll be back there again.