Today I had a day off.  Once all the horses, ponies, ducks, chickens, Ted’s eyedrops (he has dry eye) was done, I climbed into clean clothes (that would be anything without mud or horse, pony, duck, chicken, dog or cat involvement) and shoes, kissed everyone goodbye and left home, never looking back.

(sorry, Pepper, you are not coming too)

Clean clothes and shoes do not go well with our home environment.  I ended up walking on the grass trying to avoid being covered in mud, which is everywhere.

Making it out fairly mud-free, I drove off to collect my friend, Monika, and off we went to Lerwick. To Mareel, to be more precise.  “Mareel is a multi-purpose entertainment venue located on the waterfront of Lerwick”.  The cinema, in other words.

Tickets pre-booked, a sandwich (lunchtime viewing), plus a Pepsi and my weight in Haribo and I was set for a lovely afternoon not thinking about ponies, cats, dogs, yada yada yada…..

We had a quick perusal of the Lovely Things in Mareel’s shop.

Can you tell what film we were going to see?

A bit of a clue here.

It was Wicked and I was mesmerised 100%.  A brilliant film, soundtrack, everything.  Would I watch it again? definitely.  As the titles came up at the end, I just said “wow” and I meant it.  Possibly because they don’t have mud in Oz, just a brief talking horse.

Then we wended our way home and I dropped of Monika and came home back to my life of mud and horses, ponies, ducks, chickens…..  I changed back into my filthy (with a funny horsey smell that follows me) clothes and went out to put the ponies to bed etc.

It was a lovely day off.  Every mud-free minute.