Feeding Time

Length of time to make horses dinner.

Soak beet pulp - 12 hours

Wash out buckets in icy water  -  1min

Warm hands up again as they have frozen to feed bucket - 5min

Curse at feed bag string because it’s not doing that lovely satisfying pull through the top of the bag but instead is getting tighter -  5min

Find scissors  - 10min

Trip over buckets on the way back with scissors and hurt your knee -  2min

Open feed bag with scissors but try to make it look like you opened it by pulling the string  - 2min

Mix feed with soaked beet pulp and supplements -  1min

Wrestle veg oil bottle off the dog who is licking the lid and doesn’t want to give it back -  1min

Mix veg oil in with feed -  1min

Bring feed out to yard and feed horses  - 10min

Go find torch so you can see hay in hay shed, load up wheelbarrow with hay and bring back to horse who’s now kicking empty feed bucket around -  5min

Hay and change water in stables – 10min

Length of time to make my dinner

Boil kettle, pour into pot noodle, too exhausted to wait and just eat half softened pot noodle – 2min

I’m doing something wrong here?