More hacking in the morning, but ran out of time to start Kiwi back in work, as I had to get my MOT sorted (rather urgent now as need road tax too!). Turned out that as I had been misinformed - it was a bigger job and the car was going to need a full retest (no cutting corners with the DVLA computer system!) but at least the Honda garage manager was not going to charge me for it as it was their mistake! I then had to zoom up to Bristol to select the Uni' team (I was a member of the Bristol Uni' riding team as an undergraduate, and our team did very well under my friend Anna Bates' leadership!). I was a bit worried about making wrong choices but luckily the final verdict was not down to me! All the students did very well to force a jumping round and a dressage test out of stiff school horses, but some were clearly more capable than others and dressage letter and corner accuracy often left much to the immagination!

I was pretty worn out after judging countless mini "dressage" tests, so I was really unimpressed to then find myself in dreadful Bristol rush hour traffic. My sense of humour evaporated entirely after taking a foolish 'short-cut' to Gloucestershire involving very wiggly lanes and closed roads only to find I had been heading for the wrong place anyway as Tom has moved into a new cottage with a friend in Ablington near Cirencester. I have to say, I arrived in a shocking wound-up state but some food, dog-walking and picture arranging eventually made me feel better and become more sociable!