Demelza

you know what? I always wanted to go to Texas....now you just made me want to go more !! New York? Nah....not for me, I wanna see the rodeo's and drink in those smokey bars with red lighting and swing doors !! Lassoo a young texan cowboy and (.....oops better stop now!!):o

Demelza

ps. Arnold is a part of Nottingham. Not a very nice part, it's the other side of the river to me xx

Shanazel

You should come to Wyoming instead- there isn't so much heat and humidity. So Arnold is not very nice. Figures. My maiden name was Arnold, and while that branch of the family is actually Welsh and Irish (anglicized from Ardahl or some such name) I thought it was cool that a town in England was called Arnold. Alas and alack. Guess I'll take Arnold off my list of places to visit.

By the way, did anyone think to tell you that you are supposed to wear something under the chaps?

Demelza

ha ha !! yes yes yes I know that (although I'll let you into a little secret - I did have to try them just once with just a sexy pair of nickers just to look in the mirror, dance a little and see what I looked like :eek: !! - doors locked and curtains closed of course !!)........but thats because I know that it wont be long before they stink of horses and are covered in mud and are kept in the boot cupboard !!

and another little secret.....I pretended to the Texan cowboy on the phone that I was a bit thick, (dumb) and didn't understand why I had to wear jodpurs underneath !! I really put him on the spot !! ha ha !

Shanazel

JODPURS???? Under chaps???? Oh, you are really too warped to be allowed out in public without a cowboy. Where are your blue jeans, girl? And make sure you wear Wrangler jeans with your chaps- Levis were designed for miners. Wranglers are cowpoke attire.

Jodpurs. I suppose you are also wearing a white jabot, English riding boots, and one of those weird little bowler hats. With chaps. Sweetie, when they cart you away to Bedlam, you just drop me a postcard with your new address, and I'll send you a box of Zane Gray novels to read during your incarceration.

Demelza

hello dear shanazel !!
Yesssss! Jodpurs.......but they are nice ones, brown and made from mole-skin !! and I DONT wear a tweed jacket or long black riding boots or a bowler hat !! in fact I don't wear any head protection which is illegal here....and I wear ankle boots.....oh my God I'm trying to imagine what image you actually have of me ?????:eek: !!!

Sara

Belive it or not We don't wear bowlers hats, or tweed jackets much. Some professors do though at college.

Not the bowler hat though... Up ere the ole men were flat caps.

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Shanazel

I think bowler hat is not what I meant- those English riding hats like you see Princess Anne wear in competition is what I am talking about. No tweed jackets? I am soooooo crushed. Next you'll be telling me you make tea with teabags and James Herriot didn't wear Wellingtons when he stomped around Yorkshire.

Demelza, I demand- yes, demand- a picture of your American English riding costume. (This from a girl who grew up riding horses bareback and bare-footed. My bare feet, not the horse's. And, no, I never got smashed toes from being stepped on. Growing up barefoot in the south, one develops fancy footwork to avoid horses' hooves, cactus, and rattlesnakes.)

Demelza

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Demelza

and although everyone else uses tea-bags, I prefer to use loos tea - IN A TEA POT !!!! x