Incapability Brown (The Izzy Brown Stories Book 1) by Schofield Cressida Ellen

Author:Schofield, Cressida Ellen [Schofield, Cressida Ellen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: And Status Publications
Published: 2012-09-08T00:00:00+00:00

At the official beginning of the summer holidays Carlotta was scheduled to pack up her bags and her pony for a week-long showjumping masterclass at Bishop Burton College in the East Riding. Gemma, who would be accompanying her, insisted that she and Carlotta study recent video footage of her best and worst competition results in order to identify where her strengths and weaknesses lay. As no one had yet viewed what had been shot at the Great Yorkshire Show it was decided that it would be premiered in the winter den straight after dinner on the night before they were due to depart.

Everyone settled into their favourite chair as Jared plugged the camcorder into the TV. He would commit it to DVD at the same time. Taryn curled herself up in between Izzy and Jared on the larger of the two sofas whilst Carlotta and Gemma made do with the two-seater. Even all the dogs funnelled through the doorway, vying for position. Steptoe curled himself up on a scatter cushion by Izzy’s feet but only after scratching himself so vigorously his collar spun round his neck three times.

‘Stop scratting,’ said Jared in exasperation. Pongy wiped his arse on the floor, back legs akimbo like a porn star, front legs clawing at the carpet as he dragged himself along, before being yelled at by everyone to pack it in. Disgruntled and resentful, he then forced his way into the smallest of gaps between Izzy and Taryn,used one of the sofa cushions as a face towel, then lay down with a breathy grunt, his breath akin to that of a thousand camels. His crusty bum he directed towards Jared.

‘I’ve fared no better,’ Izzy countered in response to Jared’s complaints. ‘His breath is arguably worse than his farts.’

Mrs Firth had provided freshly popped corn and cookies for all. Jared had his requisite bottle of beer whilst Izzy and Gemma shared a bottle of Chardonnay. No one would be drinking much; both Carlotta and Gemma would be riding for all of the following day and as usual it fell to Jared to drive them to the equestrian college in the horsebox. Only Izzy was at liberty to get merrily pissed.

The footage commenced. They laughed and pointed as they remembered the events of the day. Taryn’s sixth place in the showing class came on first. Izzy cringed as she saw how blue Jester looked even though everyone else thought it hilarious, even Taryn. They then watched the junior jumping. Gemma wanted to pause and rewind at critical points but was unable to do so as it would have skewed the recording.

Both Carlotta’s rounds were good, Gemma critiqued, but on occasion she was still allowing her lower leg to swing backward ever so slightly at the point of take off. It was a tiny observation but Carlotta listened intently and pledged to work on it. The only time she took criticism well was when it was in connection with her riding, such was her single-minded focus on being better than her competition.

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