With Jay once more departed for Oxford, it falls upon me to make daily visits to check the old boy is happy and CLEAN (the visits are more for Jay than for Clyde who is perfectly happy so long as the hay-pile's heavin'.)
I'm not much keen on actually going in the stable with half a ton of horse, so Pani's come up with a sort of Clyde's Carwash idea....
If you are too poor to afford a servant to wash the horse, why not just wash him the day before Jay comes back .
I thought Clyde was departing from your expenditure list, Merry.....................
Goodness no. It would be like selling her own father for Jay, only much more traumatic.
She is paying for his livery herself - that's the deal - but I still seem to be getting a bill for two large iron shoes every 6 weeks.
As long as Clyde doesn't go all Imelda on you and demand hundreds of pairs sets in different styles and solid gold etc.
Which ones does he wear out most?
He is only shod at the front. This is a common practice among poor owners like us. Acutally, ponies who don't do a lot of roadwork can survive totally unshod (after all there are no farriers in the wild) and this is Jay's dream - a Clyde with four unfettered hooves gallopping free and at one with Nature over the rolling hills, etc, but for now he must work for his keep and thus must be part-shod according to riding school diktat.
Isn't being part shod a bit confusing for him? Try running wearing one shoe on to get the idea
Plus it ruins the whole 'clop, clop, cloppity, clop' thing and must sound like 'clop, clop, thump, thump'
As for the washing I reckon you could just leave him out in the rain 
Leaving him out in the rain to get clean is a lovely idea, but I can tell you ain't nevva owned a horse Pani 
Now. picture a really muddy day....
Ok well I have this plan. You cover the ground with a really big flat sponge which you have sprayed with water and shower gel. Then you let them roll about on it 
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