Hi! It’s been a funny week. Mostly it’s been windy and rainy, but sometimes it’s been sunny. Mummy put us out on the grass a couple of times, and she said she was surprised it was dry enough for us. It was nice! The grass had grown a little more, and I ate some fresh leaves. The second day there wasn’t much around, so I stayed in my tunnel most of the time. But at the weekend the sun shone again, well, for a little while anyway, and we went out to have another try.

Mummy spent most of the week watching horses on her computer. They were dancing on the first two days, going round in circles, and sideways, and sometimes faster and sometimes slower. I wouldn’t want to have to do that, although it didn’t look too strenuous. Saturday was very exciting. Mummy went out orienteering in the sunshine, then she came back and watched the horses running and jumping very fast over all sorts of obstacles, and into water (which I definitely wouldn’t like). It was fun to watch. Then on Sunday they went around in the arena again but this time jumping over coloured poles, some of which fell down. I could do that, I think, as long as the poles were smaller.

And Mummy was very happy because her favourite two horses came first and second. One’s called Walter and the other Salty, but they have fancy names, too – Lordships Graffalo and Colorado Blue. I wonder if I’ve got a fancy name?

Hmmm… Victor was Victor the Red, to distinguish him from Victor the First (I wonder how he knew there was going to be a second?). Roscoe was Geordie Roscoe. Fred and George ended up with fancy titles, but they didn’t start with them. Maybe I could have a fancy title. What do you think? Got any suggestions?

Till next week, love

Pippin xxx