The Full Monty

I should have posted this yesterday but it was so late when I got in that it had to wait till now!

We got up yesterday in good time to go up to the hospital for the debrief of a job that my crew mate and I did on 5Th February. Northern bird and I went up in my car and met my manager and crew mate, The Northern bird looked after his boys while the three of us went along to the room, only to find it had been put back half an hour, our manager talked to us about one or two things to do with the job then the senior Paediatrician arrived and told us they still didn't know yet, why the child had died. we decided that, as this was the real reason we had come, we didn't want to go into the briefing. Our manager agreed and told us to book two hours overtime. The Northern bird and I drove back to my house where we had lunch, and Flowers mum popped round for a cup of tea.
When she had gone we took the dog out for a quick run, got home and changed and waited for the blonde bird and Lou to come round as we were all going out to see Monty Roberts ( the horse whisperer) do a demonstration. Whilst my poor husband had to go to work. All four of us were dressed in the warmest clothes we could as it was going to be fairly cold in the schooling arena. After finding the place in good time we set off in search of food, and found a McDonald's!!
Back at the arena Lou and I each bought a book and I got a head collar for Mouse. We then managed to get Monty to sign the books and have a photo taken with him.
Once we had grabbed a cup of tea and sat down again the demonstration started, he worked on five horses with amazing results, we all sat there amazed by what we were seeing, this is definitely the way forward for Mouse and I, he demonstrated starting off a young horse and introduced it to its first saddle and rider, then again with another horse then a bucking horse who had been ridden by two people and bucked off two people, this horse was a real bucker, Monty demonstrated a device which caused them to stop bucking without causing pain and fear but making bucking uncomfortable, the horse ended up walking nicely around the round pen with a rider on his back. Next came to separate horses who both had spooking problems of differing degrees, by the end they were calmly walking round whilst banners umbrellas and flags were going past them.
Lou drove us all home, she dropped the Northers bird and me off before taking the Blonde bird home.
Even though it was midnight, we were hungry enough that I cooked a Spanish omelet for us to share and of course a cup of tea.
We sat and watched a couple of Eddie Izzard DVD's with a glass or two of wine before going to bed eventually at 1.45am!