Ooh err, it's very big!

Cor blimey, but it's big. I'm not sure whether you get the sheer scale of it in the picture, but it's a bit stunning in real life. He's worked all day from 7 this morning and he hasn't stopped yet. It's nearly 7 now.

Jazz is a bit bemused by all the disruption but a few years ago he would have had a nervous breakdown by now. This morning the other two put themselves into their stables but he came half way across the yard, looked at the motorhome, roller, membrane rolls etc and gently turned around and put himself back in the barn. I went in with him, and he walked out with me by his side to give him support. It was so sweet.

We had a nice hack in the astonishing summer weather - well se could hardly school between the diggers, could we? The temperature got into the 30's, which is higher than it's been all year! Because it is forecast to be about the same tomorrow, I have given Radar his first ever full hunter clip. I thought that there was a serious danger that if I went galloping around on a black horse in a nearly full coat in that weather, I could overheat him to danger point. I reckoned it was better for him to be too cold later in October than dead on the first of the month :-0 !

C