3rd April 2020

Team Half-Ass and the Game Of Noughts & Crosses

There have been a few quarantine videos going round lately of people playing noughts and crosses with their cats. I thought I’d try it with the mules! Now, I didn’t...

29th March 2020

Top Barn 12 Week Challenge: Week Twelve

Wow, these last 12 weeks have flown by. It’s crazy to think of the things we’ve collectively gone through in the last three months; remember when those frequent storms, which...

22nd March 2020

Top Barn 12 Week Challenge: Week Eleven

These last couple of weeks have been pretty poor in terms of hours, as I’ve struggled with energy levels. I had planned to take Week Ten off as my allotted...

9th March 2020

Top Barn 12 Week Challenge: Week Nine

Well, Marty was definitely the overachiever this week since he did 10 hours when he was only required to do 3. I’ve been feeling a bit awkward about our hours,...

1st March 2020

Top Barn 12 Week Challenge: Week Eight

I hadn’t expected to do very well this week, since Ben – who has been working from home for the last 7 weeks of the challenge – has now started...

25th February 2020

Top Barn 12 Week Challenge: Week Seven

Sorry for the delayed blog post this week; I haven’t been feeling particularly motivated to do … well, anything really. The weather and the mud and the mess of everything...

16th February 2020

Top Barn 12 Week Challenge: Week Six

We are now halfway through the challenge, which also means we’re halfway through what is probably a very boring run of blogs. Ah well. Someone might get something out of...

9th February 2020

Top Barn 12 Week Challenge: Week Five

The mules had quite a lot of sessions between them this week and I have managed to write a lot of blah blah about Xato, though we only just scraped...

26th January 2020

Top Barn 12 Week Challenge: Week Three

A reasonable week this week. I struggled a little for time since I’ve got a lot of work on at the moment and a deadline looming, plus the mules had...

10th January 2020

Top Barn 12 Week Challenge: Week One

The 2020 Top Barn 12 Week Challenge started on Monday. It’s a fab community set-up by our ‘local’ clinic venue, Top Barn Horsemanship Centre in Gloucestershire, and is a brilliant...