Not taking it personally

Rode tonight after feeling very bleugh all day - think I'm going to have to give up the meat again :(

Got on and she was trying to bite me at the mounting block, then being very unhelpful about me getting on, then went into turbo walk and jogjogjog. Proud of myself though - just ignored her and carried on with our warm up routine and she settled after about 5 minutes as she realised I wasn't going to argue. Up into trot and we are really getting the rhythm now - to be honest it may be slightly too slow but what a difference from when we first started together! I need to remember to not take it personally though, it would have been easy tonight to ruin everything and I nearly got cross and started to ride her a bit "you will bloody do this" which is great for some ponies but Madam Flow takes offence, so it is better to try to just bypass the row and remember it isn't personal!

Right canter was ok, bit too collected but left canter was better, did a few transitions in the middle of the session and then back to trot work so hopefully she won't anticipate that I've got into the habit of doing canter at the end!

Was getting some fab trot work but she just wasn't quite straight either way so worked really hard on getting her straight, it looked ugly - head in air but I was so, SO chuffed because after shouting "THIS IS TOO HARD MUM!" at me, she started to try and we had a bit of much straighter work which is what we need to work on now - she can do the looking pretty bit, now we need to work on strengthening and getting it more correct.

Looking forwards to Ken at weekend :)