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arwen_luneThis link is worth reading
Also...
Inspired by George's entry (http://www.livejournal.com/users/geekling/) about a word she could not pronounce I came to think about weird words in English...
Ones I really like:
- particularly. It just sounds cool.
- Superfluous. The stress is on a bit of the word where I really don't expect it to be.
Can't think of any others now. Anyone?
Ouch
Falling off a horse really hurts. Falling WITH your horse is even less fun. I was having a bit of a frustrating session with Rowan and decided to take him out for a sprint on the forest path before we drove each other insane. Saw deer in an unexpected place on the way to, but they were just interesting. Thought Rowan had settled. Saw the deer again on the back back, he spooked, I pressed on which normally settles him right down, but he spooked on and on, made a turn-about, pushed away with his hind legs and ended up on the cobbles, where he slipped (he's shoed) and went right down.
Now I have a good seat, but with a horse on his front knees and going down further, I tip forward, stirrup does what it's supposed to do and releases (safety system, it's meant to do that though if it hadn't I probably would have stayed in the saddle) and I roll forward onto my shoulder. I hear horse fight madly to get up, open my eyes and see his chest straight above my face. How on earth he managed to avoid me with his front feet I'll never know, but the next moment he was off and away. Thankfully to the right, in between fields, and not to the left toward the busy road and home!
I got to my feet, caught horse, managed to get on again. I was angry enough to cry. I've always felt so safe with this horse, always knew that he can act bloody silly at times but when I really need him, he's always there. And yesterday he wasn't.
Took him home to run it off in the paddock and eventually made my peace with him again. It just took a while to accept that spooking wasn't an accident (there was nothing scary by his normal standards) but falling and dropping me WAS an accident. He's got a large scratch on his front knee and he bit his lip really hard, so I'm sure he won't be doing anything of the like anytime soon.
I have a very blue and painful left calf (must be a hit of a hoof), a sore shoulder and a whole bunch of scrapes. In a way he did me a favour by going down, I would have fallen a lot harder (from a lot higher) if he hadn't.
Have an endurance competition next week, the 35 km in Ommen. Hope he and I are less sore by then!
Also...
Inspired by George's entry (http://www.livejournal.com/users/geekling/) about a word she could not pronounce I came to think about weird words in English...
Ones I really like:
- particularly. It just sounds cool.
- Superfluous. The stress is on a bit of the word where I really don't expect it to be.
Can't think of any others now. Anyone?
Ouch
Falling off a horse really hurts. Falling WITH your horse is even less fun. I was having a bit of a frustrating session with Rowan and decided to take him out for a sprint on the forest path before we drove each other insane. Saw deer in an unexpected place on the way to, but they were just interesting. Thought Rowan had settled. Saw the deer again on the back back, he spooked, I pressed on which normally settles him right down, but he spooked on and on, made a turn-about, pushed away with his hind legs and ended up on the cobbles, where he slipped (he's shoed) and went right down.
Now I have a good seat, but with a horse on his front knees and going down further, I tip forward, stirrup does what it's supposed to do and releases (safety system, it's meant to do that though if it hadn't I probably would have stayed in the saddle) and I roll forward onto my shoulder. I hear horse fight madly to get up, open my eyes and see his chest straight above my face. How on earth he managed to avoid me with his front feet I'll never know, but the next moment he was off and away. Thankfully to the right, in between fields, and not to the left toward the busy road and home!
I got to my feet, caught horse, managed to get on again. I was angry enough to cry. I've always felt so safe with this horse, always knew that he can act bloody silly at times but when I really need him, he's always there. And yesterday he wasn't.
Took him home to run it off in the paddock and eventually made my peace with him again. It just took a while to accept that spooking wasn't an accident (there was nothing scary by his normal standards) but falling and dropping me WAS an accident. He's got a large scratch on his front knee and he bit his lip really hard, so I'm sure he won't be doing anything of the like anytime soon.
I have a very blue and painful left calf (must be a hit of a hoof), a sore shoulder and a whole bunch of scrapes. In a way he did me a favour by going down, I would have fallen a lot harder (from a lot higher) if he hadn't.
Have an endurance competition next week, the 35 km in Ommen. Hope he and I are less sore by then!
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Date: 2004-04-25 09:00 am (UTC)Words
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