Sit tight I'm gonna need you to keep time

Well I feel like I've been dragged through a number of hedges backwards, sideways and upside-down. I just had an hour private jump lesson at Middleton EC, which, despite the fact that it rocked and was really useful and satisfying, seriously has worn me out. Aside from that I feel that I have made a lot of progress in that hour. I think it is so much better to have the hour because in half an hour the lesson is over before you realise you're really getting into it and starting to adjust more things to improve. But at least in the hour you have time to warm up, work really hard in the middle, improve considerably and then warm down, rather than warming up, working hard and suddenly finishing. Much better today. And Oliver, of course, was an absolute angel. He did wonderful jumps today and although there were a couple of awkward ones to follow through (resulting in a smack where it hurts from the front bump of the saddle >_<) most were just perfect and full of energy and enthusiasm. We tried to force him to take off and land in the same correct place this lesson - (because we had more time) - which obviously helped him a lot too because his jumping was way better than normal and when the guiding poles were taken away he still jumped fantastically, so they had clearly had an effect.

I think I improved a lot in terms of my jump position and my keeping him straight over the jumps rather than cutting the corner too soon. I did a lot better in balancing him round corners as well, I feel, especially in the canter, which he did really well with aswell because he was on the correct lead pretty much all of the time... bless him... and I managed to get him on the correct lead over the jumps even if trying to push him the opposite way so that he didn't cut the corner... phew... LOTS to comment on haha. Probably confusing you a little now.
Hopefully going to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix tonight, so I'll let you know what I think of it. I saw Outlaw at Sam's last night, which was alright but could have been better... I found it a bit boring to be honest and more than slightly pretentious, ah well, that's another film seen, along with Blade which I saw on Wednesday, which was also good but got silly when it came to the people blowing up to big red blobs and then exploding. Stephen Dorff, however, absolutely MADE that film by being hot hot HOT! ... http://images.allmoviephoto.com/1998_Blade/stephen_dorff_blade_002.jpg ... Check him out.

Right, time for beans on toast I think. Then I need to ring Kerry (though maybe not today) and ask about hiring Oli for a week and the terms and conditions etc etc. Yay.
Over and out mes amies

xxx