and no pressing timeline to success, we started to get on with each other a little better... I would now consider Tycoon and I to be pretty good mates, and on the whole he thinks my requests are reasonable and there is a relatively good line of communication between us. I very much hope that when my new horse arrives (Tycoon isn't going anywhere, he is just getting a sparkly new friend) that I look back at this thread and remind myself to just take each day as it comes, and not to start with the end in mind.