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- Herausgeber: Little Tiger Press
- Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
- Serie: Pony Camp Diaries
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019
Saddle up for a week in pony paradise! At Sunnyside Stables, each girl gets her own pony to look after and ride for a week.
Das E-Book Megan and Mischief wird angeboten von Little Tiger Press und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert:
animals, horses, ponies, riding, stables, camp, holiday
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Contents
Sunnyside Stables Map
Monday 9.16 am
Wow! I’m actually here at Pony Camp! At last! Jody, who runs Sunnyside Stables, gave me this fabulous Pony Camp diary to write down my adventures this week. There’s even a space on the cover to stick a picture of MY pony – I can’t wait to meet him … or her! I wonder who I’ll get?! Typically, Mum and Dad got me here mega early and no one else has come yet, so I’m starting right this second! Jody gave me a map, too, and a timetable, and we’re having a gymkhana on Friday with prizes and everything – SO exciting!! I’ve never entered any competitions before and I’d love to win a rosette for my pony pinboard at home. That would be brilliant!
When Mum and Dad were registering me in the office, which is in the yard, I had a sneaky peek around and this place is amazing!
I saw a really huge horse in the stables, the kind that pulls ploughs. I hope I don’t get him ’cos he’s massive!
There were these two cute cheeky ponies tied up in the yard too, getting their tails washed by a girl with curly blonde hair, but they’d be too small for me. Then I noticed a huge field up the track that had lots more ponies in, including a cute cobby piebald and a prancing palomino. I can’t wait to find out which one will be mine!
I’m so nervous it feels as if my Rice Krispies are doing a dance in my stomach!
I’ve never stayed away from home on my own before and I’m extra specially jittery ’cos of this secret thing I did. On the booking form, in the comments section, I put that I would like a forward-going pony!
This is a big wow because at my riding school I always end up with the slow ones. I’m too shy to say anything though, so people think I like lumbering along at the back of the ride having to use my legs like crazy just to get a tiny trot. But I’m ready for a challenge now – and Pony Camp is it! No one knows me here so I’m going to be a different girl. Not Megan who still has a nightlight on in the hall and won’t join in with football in the park in case she gets whacked in the head by accident. But a whole new kind of Megan…
I’m even hoping to do some more jumping while I’m here (I’ve only had a couple of tries so far).
I’m lying on my bunk bed writing this. I’ve bagsied the bottom one which is cool ’cos you can hang your towel down from the bed above and it makes a secret camp. I’ve already hidden my tuckbox under my bed in case we get to have a midnight feast! I can’t wait to meet the girls I’m sharing with. And most of all I can’t wait to see which pony I’m getting!
Oh, gotta go, some of the other girls are here now… (I really hope they like me!)
P.S. I just met my room-mates, Millie and Gabrielle. Millie is Jody’s daughter and she lives here all the time (how lucky is that?!) and she’s got her own pony, called Tally (how even luckier is that?!). Gabrielle is really nice too (phew!). She has these cool pony hair bobbles, and me and Millie just helped her plait her long wavy blonde hair and it looks really cool. I’m going to buy the exact same ones the second I get home.
Still Monday, after yummy lunch
He’s called Mischief and he’s completely gorgeous. Here’s a quick profile of him:
NAME: Mischief
HEIGHT: 13 hh
AGE: 6
BREED: Arab cross
COLOUR: Palomino
MARKINGS: Star and stripe, and white socks on hind legs
FAVE FOODS: Pony nuts and carrots
PERSONALITY: Really sweet but a bit cheeky (I’ll write more about that later!)
Before we got our ponies, Jody did a welcome talk and introduced us to all the staff. Lydia is the girl with blonde curly hair who I saw before. She’s a stable hand, which is my dream job – imagine getting paid to look after ponies all day! Sally is the instructor and she has these cool army print half chaps that I’ve wanted since I saw them in Pony magazine. Jody looks after us and does all the cooking (we’re all going to help too, but she’s in charge) and her husband Johnny is the Yard Manager and Millie’s dad!
Next Jody got us to say our names and where we were from. There are nine of us including Millie, three in each room. Carla is the youngest (she’s only six) and she’s in with Chloe and Tam, these two friends who came all the way from Manchester! In the other room there are three almost-teenagers sharing together – Kate and Karen the twins are smiley and nice, but Jade looks a bit moody. She wears lots of make-up and has blonde hair that she keeps flicking round as if she’s in a shampoo ad.
Anyway, back to MY PONY!
When Lydia led this gorgeous pony out of the stable I crossed my fingers really tight, hoping he was for me. Then I heard Sally say, “Megan, you asked for a challenge, so we’ll try you on Mischief.”
I could hardly believe it! He was the gorgeous palomino I’d seen in the field! I wanted to jump up and down and scream, “Yes! Yes! Yes!” but I didn’t in case it spooked the ponies.
Kate got this handsome black gelding called Rupert.
Gabrielle got the cute cobby piebald, who’s called Prince.
Moody Jade got a glossy chestnut called Shine, who flicks her tail round in the same way Jade does with her hair – so they suit each other well!
I don’t remember who the others got because I was too excited about Mischief!
We tacked up (Lydia helped me with getting the bit in) and waited to mount up on the block, ready for our first lesson. Once I was on I felt quite high up on Mischief, but as he’s a light build I could wrap my legs round his sides nicely. I even tightened my own girth, and I felt really cool and grown up just sorting it out myself – until Mischief started wandering off while I still had my leg forward. Lydia had to come back over and hold him still, so then I didn’t feel very cool after all!
At first, when we got in the manège we just had to walk round on the track and think about sitting up straight and keeping our hands relaxed and our heels down. There were no complete beginners and everyone could trot at least, so that was okay.
Then it all went not okay, ’cos Mischief started doing Cheeky Things. Like:
We did trotting to the back of the ride one by one and I think Mischief got bored of walking round and round waiting for his turn because he kept going really close to the person in front, which was Gabby, and nearly sticking his nose up Prince’s tail. Sally told me to use half halts to keep him in check, but that didn’t really work because he just kept stopping completely!
