GOOD WEEK BAD WEEK

WHISKERS

A rider who had been reading up on bans on trimming horses’ whiskers made the mistake of telling her other half, who found it very interesting. So much so, he has now banned her from trimming his ear hair on welfare grounds. Not sure how often he uses said ear hair to evaluate his environment, but you never know…

VERBING

Spotted, ads saying horses are apparently “coursing” at a certain height. We could ask if they’re also rosetting at that height, but let’s not split hares about it…

FITNESS

Piggy March’s husband

Tom apparently described the eventer’s attempts at burpees (hideously hard fitness-type move) as looking “like a fitting seal”. Anyone who can do any sort of burpees gets our seal of approval, tbh.

SCAMMERS

Our favourite trier this week was he who is offering a selection of “horse wearings” for sale. One can buy “riding suits” (not sure if they come with riding ties) and riding pants, possibly padded to avoid saddle sores? But we’re not sure we want to know what some of those horse wearings are…

UPDATING

It’s fair to say there’s been confusion over the new Highway Code rules. This may not have been helped by the fact highwaycodeuk. co.uk had the code helpfully available to download, but the old version, days after the changes came into force. You’d have thought someone might have realised…

JOKES

Feel for the reader who settled down for the evening with some older copies of

H&H he had not had time to read in full. Of course, he fell asleep. He woke up with back issues... (No. Ed)