blog-by-fizz

28/05/10: The highs and lows of being shared!

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:41:10 +0100

Hello all! I can't quite decide whether the past 6 weeks have been heaven or hell. As many of you will know mummy 1 has been out of action due to having appendicitis (We actually think she is addicted to hospital food!) So mummy 2 took over the ride on me.

This started off very, very bad! I saw my food rations almost vanish completely, and mummy 2 actually said she 'hated' me. This really put me in a bad mood. Whenever mummy 1 would build up the strength to wander to the stables to see me I couldn't even get her to secretly top my haynet up, mummy 2 had hypnotized her into this diet too! I think that they also must have taken some of her brain out in hospital too as one day when i was fluttering my eyelashes and whinnying sweet nothings at her to try and coax her to give me some more haylage she smiled and said of course but appeared at my door with two logs! She dropped them on my floor, and waltzed out my stable telling me not to try not to have too much fun... I was bewildered, and so carried on staring at my empty haynet just incase I had missed a strand or two.

Mummy 1 was being really lazy and so mummy 2 had to take me to my first party, we walked the dressage with more than 70%, and I showed her how to do a show jumping course at proper speed, my way. At fence two she considered trying to make me do it her way, and well I soon persuaded her otherwise! She finished clear with a big grin! We then went out to go cross country. Now I know mummy 2 was very nervous about this, so i just took her round steadily in a nice leisurely gallop, and it worked, she fell in love me, she never stopped saying what a clever boy I was. Sonny was ever so jealous! He had a lot to live up to! Even though he jumped double clear too and had the best dressage in his class, mummy 2 still said she loved me lots, I have never seen Sonny frown so much at me- I had stolen his mummy!

Our next party was West Cumberland ODE, with mummy 2 riding me again, our last time together. We were first to go in the dressage and I pulled out all the stops to set the standard, scoring 75% again, much to Sonny's annoyance as we were competing against each other. Sonny was slightly disadvantaged though, as I came to watch his test and the judges horn kept beeping and it appeared that she kept falling asleep at the wheel! I don't blame her, his stable talk is so dull, all he ever talks about is how unfair life is because I am number 1 Prince in our stables, poor Sonny! What does he expect?

Anyway! I now have my mummy 1 back, and she has been un-hypnotized and my nets are getting bigger I can't wait for the day she starts making suppers again! We went to Cumbria Riding Club Dressage day and I went amazing, and mummy 1 didn't do too bad either. I danced to my music to win my dressage to music (equal marks with Sonny & Mummy 2 but I got more for artistic merit, she must have spotted my celebrity personality!), then I paired up with Sonny to do the pairs, mummy 1 got quite competitive and all she did was grumble & growl at mummy 2 all through the test, so much so that Sonny couldn't hear my grumbling & growling at him! She then tried to get out of doing her Novice 28 test feigning tummy pain, but I persuaded her to give it a go so off we trundled. By now it was so hot, and mummy 1 was rather rag doll like with tiredness so i was allowed to really strut my stuff to gallop away with that class as well!! What a day! Every class I did I won! And with my performance in the Novice 28, scoring 73% I won a trophy for highest percentage all day! That made both my mummies very, very proud of me! I got cuddles and kisses when they returned back to the wagon with armfuls of trophies, red ribbons & medals... If only every party was like that one!

Anyway I must get back to my haynet, if I don't empty this one soon, there is no way I am going to get any extra!

Lots of love
Fizz
xxx

03/03/10: Just to let you know I am still alive!

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:39:21 +0100

As you can see from my picture, I am not only alive but i am alive and very, very well! It was great getting out to the party in half term and meeting members new and old! I hope you all had as good a day as I did! Also mummy 1 told me you were all super in your stable management- she must have made the lessons too easy for you all i bet!

I have just finished judging February's members competition, and the results are now online in the members zone! Go check them out!!! I wish you weren't all soooooo good, it really does make judging them hard work you know! But thank you for supporting them, they really do make me smile, and brighten up my day! I LOVE receiving post addressed to Prince Bucks Fizz! If you haven't entered a competition yet, it is so easy to do so, and it's free! So get yourself over to the members zone for more information!

Anyway I am off for my bath, I have another pony club party tonight at Dearham Heavy Horse Centre, and i must always look my best for my fans! I may see some of you there!

Lot's of Love

Prince Bucks Fizz

xxx

12/01/10: Happy New Year!

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:38:31 +0100

To you all! But especially Nicole and Angel! I received mail today addressed to 'Prince Bucks Fizz'.... ME!!!! I was so excited! It is a Happy New Years card :) I love it sooooooooooooooooo much I made Mummy 1 display it in my stables so I can see it every day. I look forward to receiving more fanmail, as I simply do not receive enough!

I hope that you are all starting to defrost, unfortunately I was not allowed to go out and play in the white stuff, not that I wanted to mind you, because apparently it was too much of a 'risk'. This gave me lots to think about, what did they mean risk? Risk to myself? Risk to the field? Risk to my friends? I don't know what they meant but I can tell you that Mummy 1 will be taking a BIG risk when she finally releases me from this concrete prison and tries to ride me...! Which leads me onto something strange that has appeared in my stables. It is a similar height to Mummy 1 and wears the same rugs and stuff she does, but... It is all kinda floppy... and it's facial expression never changes... and it scares me very much! When it first appeared in the stables it just sat still for hours on our haylage bale, so I managed to get a photo:

What do you think it is? Well she has been torturing poor little Buzz with it for days making him sniff it and making him stand still and stuff while it lies on his back or sits on him like Mummy 1 sits on me. It is all very strange, she even talks to it, but it never talks back, just flops around making rustling noises. I have done lots of thinking and my theory is that it is maybe a vegetarian or whatever you people call them because it, or as Mummy 1 calls it 'Brave Betty' is made of straw and vegetation stuff where as like Mummy 1 is made of animal stuff like I think I am. I had never thought that names like that referred to what you were made out of, amazing really. It did confuse me slightly though because both my mummies say I seem to have legs made out of glass, and that my body gleams like a brass button, so that would make me a glassarian x brassarian... the mind boggles how very confusing!

Unfortunately this morning Mummy 1 decided to condition score me, I did my uttermost to persuade to leave it to another day, but no. My world ended. I am on a diet. Not just any diet... a cruel, wicked, starvation diet. I have got the RSPCA number on speed dial so don't worry too much about me, I don't want you all panicking too badly about me! When Mummy 1 removed my rug and started touching me I misread the gasps and shocked big eyes. I thought she was amazed at my beautiful fluffy hair and curves... but she was actually gasping in horror and told me I was fat, not just a little fat, quite fat! She called me a sneak because I had got fat in hidden places, but to be honest it's not like I hid it on purpose from her, she just didn't look properly. So I blame her. She gave me the food and I have only been being polite by eating it all up, got to keep my bedroom tidy you know! To add insult to injury I have also been made to sleep in my birthday suit- I have had my pyjamas confiscated! This is like living a nightmare, next she will be clipping off all my hair so I shiver the fat away! She has already started on my tail and my beard. So I will leave you to your left over chocolate from christmas and I will go and stare at my almost empty haynet... only 12 hours till I get my next ration... It's going to be a long night ...

Lots of Love Fizz xxx

21/12/09: Will it be a white Christmas?

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:45:55 +0100

Who knows!?! But i certainly hope i do not have to place a dainty hoof on the fluffy, white, cold stuff! As you can see it got very close to paying me a visit in my stable! I mean it is all very seasonal and all but why does it have to be so cold? On a festive note where are all my christmas cards? You are all scrooges! I have had one merry christmas message, mummy 1 thought it was for her, but it was quite clearly for me, from one of our new members Hannah, and she hasn't even met me yet! I sent her a christmas card back, me and mummy 1 had a little argument over that as i wanted to sign my name first but she wouldn't let me :( But for future reference unless you make up for it with lots of birthday cards in April you are all getting crossed off my christmas card list and maybe even my friendship list. I have the power to do that being a Prince and all that Jazz!

I do have some very bad, bad, bad, bad news though... It appears that my holidays have come an end, a shocking end, as i had no warning of this! I was paid a visit by our kind mister farrier man and he put my shoes back on, and that can only mean one thing... the dread 'W' word.... W................O................ R............... K!!!!!! Gives me the shivers just spelling it out! The only good thing is that this means i will start to be out and about at parties, like those rallies and competitions our club organise! I better get polishing my party shoes then as mister farrier man didn't do them before putting them back on, i will have to get him told... or maybe just hope my mummies have got me a solid silver or gold set for Christmas.... hmmmmm we will see!

Hope you all have a brilliant Christmas and New Year! See and speak to you soon!

Lots of love
Fizz xxx

08/12/09: And still I have no letters!

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:35:28 +0100

... and still nobody has written to me! As some of you may know I have been on sick rest as I tweaked my fetlock playing with Roscoe in the field. I couldn't help myself, I was just sooooooooooooo excited at being able to play with him. I promised mummy 1 & 2 that i would rest and not run too fast on it while it was getting better, but as usual i couldn't contain my excitement... and tweaked it again!

So it was a trip down to Cockermouth to visit my good friend mister vet man, who my mummies call 'Andrew'. He loves seeing me, we always play this game where he like, holds my leg up in a funny position for a minute, and then he drops it and shouts go, and whichever mummy is holding me has to run as fast as they can. I don't know why we do it, but it is great fun. When he bends my leg it makes it feel funny so it gives my mummies a head start, I guess it is only fair as i have four legs and they have two and if he didn't do the bendy thing then I would beat them easily EVERY time! And well this time we did a normal race, and then we did another one and he tried to catch me out by bending my leg a way he never has before, but I was still good and got to the other side of the car park at the same time as mummy 1. Anyway then I can't remember much... just a sharp pain in my neck and then everything started spinning and I felt very, very tired. It was very strange, then before i knew it i was back in the car park as fresh as a daisy. I had apparently had some x-rays and scans, and mister vet man said I had perfect 'bone density' and beautiful 'joints', 'ligaments' and 'tendons', whatever that means!

Anyway then the rain came, how awful, I found that rather scary! It seems to have settled down now though, I hope you are all ok. Since the rains came my field has been taken over by sheep as they don't like swimming and a lot of our land is very, very wet, and the tiniest piece of rain means it becomes a swimming pool again, so I have rented my field out to them. So I have spent my days very bored in my stable watching the hours tick by, none of you lot wrote to me, or have sent me get well soon cards, or christmas cards come to think of it! So i have taken up a new hobby.... HAIR DRESSING! I have been practicing on my tail, what do you think???

I was taken for a small hack in walk today to survey the water levels, was a nice change, and I behaved myself, mummy 1 was ever so surprised, especially seen as Sonny was oingy boingying around with mummy 2. I have heard mummy 1 & 2 discussing how due to my 'medical situation' I need a month of this walking work to strengthen my beautiful 'joints', 'ligaments' and 'tendons'.... hmmm sounds boring to me so please get in touch with me to keep me entertained... you can send letters and cards to Prince Bucks Fizz, Cherry Bank, Underskiddaw, Keswick, Cumbria, CA12 4PY. Anybody that writes to me or sends me a card will get a mention in my next blog! I am considering running some competitions next year so keep your eyes and ears open! Anyway, back to my haynet, speak to you all soon!

Lots of love Fizz
xxx

02/10/09: It's Holiday Time!

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:07:46 +0100

Wow what a busy time i have had lately, i really do think i deserve this holiday that i am now on although i currently don't seem to be going anywhere exotic, i haven't even been allowed in the field for more than a few hours!!

How are you all doing? Digging out your winter woolies for all the winter shows at Greenlands and the Heavy Horse Centre? Crikey you are all brave! I will be thinking of you all as i snuggle down into my big straw bed with my quilted PJ's on! What have you all been up to? News has been very poor lately, maybe you have all been holiday? I don't know but you better start talking to me!

Who is off to the winter ball? You better get your tickets bought quick if your planning for a big group of you to sit together... i have heard off Mummy 1 that Alexy J, Natalie G, and Nicole B have already got there names down to be the coolest table there, so you all better get your names down, and tell her who you want to sit with so that you can be guaranteed an absolutely awesome night out! Mummy 1 has already got her dress, not that i really understand why you girls make such a big deal out of a piece of fabric like that... I mean with a dress all it has to do is drape over you, where as with a pair of trousers it's obvious to see the skill that's gone into making them. The fact they have two shaped leg holes and pockets and stuff like that... I hope one of you can prove me wrong and can show me a dress that has been made with more skill than is needed to make a pair of your jodphurs! Not that i will be able to be there, due to both Mummies going i have been left to look after the house and baby sit the others, but i will look forward to the photos!

So i am on holiday and Mummy 1 has already started planning things for next year. As some of you may know i have been mainly doing eventing lately. This starts with a dressage test, followed by a round of show jumping, then rounded off with a good blast over a cross-country course. Mummy 1 has been talking about something called a 'three-day-event' somewhere down south... the thing is with a three day event is that you do the bits in the same order but only one phase a day, instead of all on the same day. It might just be my point of view but don't you think that it sounds a bit like a lazy event horses kind of competition?! I mean having to have a sleep between each phase?! I hope i don't have to lower myself to their standards and we stick to the elite version of one-day eventing...or maybe i'm misunderstanding something?? I don't know but we will see, maybe the hardest test of it is surviving the 8 hour journey in the wagon to get there!!

Anyway i am off out to the field to check the alien invasion situation. Mummy 2 currently has some aliens in captivity next to my field, they are a bit like sheep, but they have curly horns and are multi-coloured. She also seems to be feeding them live prey in the form of a few of this years lambs. As of yesterday they hadn't eaten them, I guess they could be vegetarian, but i have my doubts, and so does Roscoe, we think they have their eyes on bigger prey.... *gulp*...

All my love, and speak to you soon (hopefully!)

Fizz

xxx

30/07/09: Well, well, well!

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:06:40 +0100

Seems like you were all missing me, well thats what mummy 1 has told me, so i have come out of my sulk, which just so you don't forget was caused because NOBODY entered the competition i set in April!

But moving on from that very hurtful time i would like to introduce you to the new manager of the Cumberland Foxhounds Pony Club website..... ME!!!!!!!! I was chosen quite simply because i am brilliant, it also means that all your pony's now have a chance of winning the amazing title of 'Cumberland Foxhounds Pony of the Month', because i organise the competition i unfortunately can't enter it, otherwise the title may as well be changed to 'Cumberland Foxhounds Pony of the Year' and i could upload lots of pictures of me here, there, and everywhere, just in case any of you doubt my celebrity status among the celebrity equine world. 'Pony of the Month' is a chance for your pony to stand in the spotlight so send me stories and photos of why your four legged friend deserves to win and i will choose who i think deserves the title- I am currently looking for August's Pony of the Month so what are you waiting for??

We have a wide range of members in our club, from people who have been doing Gymkhanas since they were born to people who never even knew the word existed! So on my hints/tips page i have offered advice on how to enjoy your day at one of our Pony Club Gymkhanas, and also what to expect so you can get lots of practice in before the big day! I had to ask Roscoe for the details about the Handy Pony and the Mounted Games as i have NEVER even attempted to do one of them before (thank god mummy 1 has Roscoe!). If you are still unsure about anything don't forget you can email me questions on bucksfizz666@hotmail.co.uk! I love hearing from you!

Now on to the exciting stuff... who is going to Cockermouth show this Saturday? I AM!!!! I have had a mini holiday for the last six weeks. After being amazing at Hutton BE event and getting 7th i decided it was time for another mini holiday so i pulled a few strings. My mummies didn't seem too happy about this but i decided that they must just be jealous of me having the time off and being able to chill out all day while they run around all stressed. It has been lovely, iv been waited on hand and foot, had regular massages, the works! The only thing i wasn't to keen on was being made to look like a giant bug as you can see from my picture... I almost dropped dead when mummy 1 showed me the photograph, but Roscoe has a matching one so they must be cool?? let me know what you think! I have to admit it does stop me being eaten alive by all those horse eating flying things! Now though, i am sooooooooooooo excited about getting back out there to these parties and seeing all you guys again! (although i am sadly still wrapped up daily in my bug costume? Fancy dress anyone?!)

Don't forget to send me your messages- and any birthday wishes that you want to send each other and i will put them up on the members page :D

AND Don't forget to let me know if any of you are going to Cockermouth show, i am doing one of the riding horse classes with mummy 1, and if i don't see you i want to see pictures!! So get those cameras out and take some pictures of yourselves having fun for me to put on the members pages with all your results- I am crossing my hooves for sunshine!!

Speak soon!

Lots of love
Fizz
xxx

29/04/09: Still no parties!

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:05:20 +0100

Well May is only days away and i have yet to go to one of those parties where you get to win those little colourful ribbony things. Iv been to those parties where somebody stands in the middle telling you how to dance and stuff, a bit like party games, they are fun, but i am getting hungry for some competition! It can get a bit repetitive sometimes constantly being told you are a sweety or a pretty boy, especially when i'm trying hard to ditch the show pony image that i have been associated with for so many years. Sometimes it is just so hard being me...

I have one issue though, i am not too keen on having to work hard for these parties so as soon as the ground began to dry up enough for me to be schooled on i 'accidentally' removed one of my shoes, ooopsies,thus deeming me un-ridable. And boy did i time it well! Just as my mister farrier man was moving house so was unavailable to come to my mummies pestering call. the plan did have a minor hiccup when mummy one bizarraly thought that she could work me in-hand, because yeah removing her big bottom from my back is going to stop my little foot wearing away! I know she is a bit on the heavy side but not thatheavy!

So i had a few days, well nearly a week exercise free before mister farrier man showed his face. The downside to not being worked is that for some reason mummy 2 takes it upon herself to reduce my hard feed rations. It bad enough only getting a meal at tea time, when you are used to having breakfast as well, but getting less than Scumbag who lives next door, ( who till you get to know my mummy's you will probably only hear his public name of Sonny, Scumbags my pet name for him that they stole!) just takes the biscuit, literally!

Mummy 1 has been chit chattering away about some dressage to music which if i was being honest sounds a bit more fun than plain dressage, but due to me being without shoe, she had been trying to ride Scumbag to help pick music for me. lets just say, after the state he returned to the stables, it made me kinda glad i was without shoes, he was a stinky sweaty mess, and im being kind there. id never let mummy 1 get me in that state. I felt kinda sorry for him so when mummy 1 tied him up outside my stable i gave him a bit of a massage to help ease his pains, although i couldn't help giggling at what he had been through for me, and that il be able to step out the stable and straight into my choreographed routine... i best go and ratch out my ballet shoes hadn't i...

Lots of Love Fizz
xxx

27/03/09: Big apology to my fans!

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:04:19 +0100

...BUT i have been sulking!!!

Not only did i not get an invite to mummy 1's 21st Birthday party, two days later i then had the worst practical joke ever played on me, and i still have not quite worked out who to blame. I got all bathed and plaited up, they even went to the extent of doing the same to sonny! I then waited politely in my stable, till YES heard the wagon come down the drive and park up ready for me to load up... me and sonny got our travel gear on and then got put in the wagon, the ramp was closed shut, by this point i was getting extremely excited, finally my first proper party for over 6 months...then it went silent...I must have waited 10 minutes, the suspense was killing me, i was walking on the spot by the time another 10 minutes passed...then mummy 1 appeared, opening the ramp back up and unloading sonny... I thought this can't be happening, but it was, and in my sheer frustration i bit mummy 1, i have never bit her like that before but this joke just took the biscuit! Fair enough winding me up in the stable by giving me my tea last of the bunch, or standing in front of my hay net when i want to take a bite, but this! This was unbelievable, to think she went to all that effort to wind me up like that! Hopefully next time she thinks of doing some practical joke on me, she will remember how sore her finger was that day!

It really hit me hard being wound up like that, i felt sick, i couldn't even face my haynet, i just stood in the back of my stable and i felt so empty till mummy 2 appeared and all she kept saying was sorry, its not my fault but sorry, and she was making me smell her hands, which seemed to smell of the little white fluffy ones that appear at this time of year, god knows what they had to do with it, but i am glad i didnt have to travel all the way to penrith with her smelling like that! I was not convinced by her apology and managed to consume nearly a whole packet of polo's simply through pulling my sad face, which i have lately got quite good at!

It also seems that i have gone into semi-retirement, although, apparently i am currently banned from the field because i am a "lune", "idiot", "bully", among the words used to describe the exercise regime that i was caught carrying out in the field. How else does they think i am meant to keep fit? By walking round the field?! I don't think they approved of my techniques to get Old Jaffa to participate with me... So i promptly got banned from all social activities and left in my stable with only my haynet and boredom for company, while my mummies hurry around sorting out the safe arrivals of the little white fluffy things.

Mummy 1 has just got back from the Pony Club Spring do, (another party that i was not invited to!) and said i missed a good night! She told me that my fans were asking after me, that made my night! Do not forget the competitions that are starting up this month, i think she handed out some info on it to all you keen artists out there! All entries will get marked, and then placed and the points tallied up. There will be a new competition every month, with the member gaining the most points being announced at the end of year party, with first prize being a drawing of your ponies head done by my mummy 1, have a look at her website, www.daisygirldesigns.co.uk, to see for yourself what is up for grabs! If you missed this then you can find the details on the "special news" blog on my profile!

Thats all for now!
See you all soon
Love Fizz xxx

25/02/09: The Cheek of It!!!

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 06:45:49 +0100

Picture this: Sunday lunch time, and i am brought in from the field, and the wagon is brought down from my mummies stable. I got quite excited, i was not plaited up so that indicated that i was going show jumping, cos you can get away with being slightly on the scruffy side there.

Mummy 1 came down to my stables, her usual cheery self and proceeded to prepare JETHRO!!! for travel. The optimistic pony in me assumed this meant we were both going... NO Jethro was loaded into the wagon. Still i had no travel gear on, and to further tease me, mummy 1 came into my stable, and i was about to say thank you for not forgetting me, when she whisked MY show rug out of MY wardrobe and took it off to the wagon for Jethro to wear, with out so much of a please or thank you!!

As the wagon pulled away i began to plot my revenge, if she thought she was going to get away with this lightly, she was wrong!!

Mummy 2 has handed the evidence to me as you can see here:

Shame the above photo is her successfully vaulting on, wish he was in the process of throwing a bronc to get her off...looks like i will have to do it myself!

So i am currently formulating a suitable punishment for her. She even let Jethro sleep in my Rug, and now it smells of him! She needn't think washing it will make me wear it again, i am gonna put my hoof down on this one, in fact im gonna put all four hooves down and refuse to wear it ever again, she can go out and buy me a brand new one. And not a second hand one off ebay, i deserve simply the best!!!

I will let you know if i implement her punishment in the near future, watch this space!

Love Fizz xxx