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...

3rd January 2020

Team Half-Ass and the 2019 Review

  I had originally planned to write an end of year post a couple of weeks ago, but it turned out to be quite a difficult task. I didn’t feel...

27th December 2019

Marty and the Christmas Picnic

I normally work over Christmas – this is the first time in several years that I haven’t – and so I don’t normally get the chance to do anything with...

7th December 2019

Team Half-Ass and the Massage

A few weeks ago we were working both mules in the arena. There was nothing amiss, and at the end of the session Ben dismounted and stood next to Xato...

30th November 2019

Rate My Marty

I missed my usual Friday night blog post because I was working right up to deadline as usual, and didn’t have time to wax lyrical about mules (a travesty, I...

22nd November 2019

Marty and Why There’s No Shame In Going Slow

A few years ago, when we lived in Surrey, I was leading Marty out on a walk through the village. A lady stopped to talk to us about what we...

20th September 2019

Marty and the Role Of Ambassador

Two weeks ago I was finally able to announce, publicly, that Marty had been asked to be the first ever ambassador for Mule Welfare UK! Honestly this should have been...

14th September 2019

Ten Photos That Had An Impact On Me

A while ago I was tagged in a photo game that was going round Facebook – it’s been so long since I was tagged that I can’t remember the exact...

6th September 2019

Blog Hop: 12 Tough Questions

I stumbled across this blog hop by Alberta Equest earlier in the week, and due to an astonishing lack of originality decided it would be fun to answer and post...