You have showed us more in the last couple of weeks than anybody else ever has. But like you we could not think of anything special enough for you. I ...ooked at both of them and decided that we had a pretty good thing going and I was very lucky. Well how about if we just hang out here tonight, relax, maybe rent a movie and we will deal with tomorrow when it comes. Tina smiled and offered, That sounds like a plan. So I will clean up the mess you made making this dinner and you and Tammy go to the. .” Belle felt the reins taken. Felt the tug of the bit into her cheeks. “Off you go, Saucy ... just a nice easy walking pace. Let’s see how you move. Come on ... off! Thwack! Sven’s leathern training-strap fell across Belle’s rump. Then again. Thwack! Belle moved off, pulling the light carriage behind her. Seated low, Sven looked up admiringly at the superb hindquarters of his new charge. Yes ... this was some Pony. A real thoroughbred. In a week or two, she would be moving like a good ‘un.. I had no idea what she was hoping to achieve but it was a welcome distraction to the walk and a welcome breather for both of us although I did think that Mel climbing the tree in her uniform would be interesting.I laughed and held her hand as she walked along the fallen trunk however she was getting higher and I had to let go of her hand at one point but kept a close eye on her and as she stopped holding on to a branch her knees were at eye level so when I looked up I had a perfect worms eye. She had insinuated herself into the Abbey schoolroom and proved an apt pupil. King Ælfred had attracted men of learning from all over Christian Europe and, while at first they may have found her a curiosity, they came to recognise that she was the possessor of a fine inquiring mind. She took full advantage of what was on offer. She soon mastered both Latin and Greek and read every precious book she laid hands on. Attempts to confine her to religious tracts were countered with a fierce.