Lunging - oooh

On Monday (today is Wednesday) I took Tal into the round yard for a bit of a go at lunging. He actually did quite well. I took the 22' lead instead of a proper lunge lead, so that meant that I had to do a lot of walking to allow him the full use of the RY. I tried not to let him do too many circles without asking for a change of some sort, and he did seem to stay fairly focussed. Quite frankly, I've seen broken-in horses do a much much worse job. Hopefully that means I'm doing something right with him?
Only down-side was when he launches himself into the canter. He still tends to stick his rear end in towards me and look like he's going to buck. I then have to turn his head toward me to disengage it, and then he returns to the trot. Maybe if I use the lunge lead and have him further away from me it might work better, because I am going to have to let him canter! I might also just let him go loose in there and see what he wants to do.
He got a fright again with his back boot slipping down, and the dear soul came to me. I didn't fix it though, just rubbed him and talked to him, and sent him on his way again. He got over it.

Tallic has been a bit of a grumpy bum yesterday and today, and I think he's hungry. He's in the lock-up with Boo, and they're being fed chaff and speedi-beet, and Tal gets to go into the grassy paddock for a while, but I still think he's hungry. I put out some hay again, as I think that's what is different to last week, but he really is quite the tubster.