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...

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...

23rd August 2019

Xato and the Liberty Session

A guest post this week from Ben, about a ‘liberty’ session he did with Xato recently (I put liberty in quotes because it’s not the polished display you might associate...

5th April 2019

#HorseBloggers: Top 3 Training Tips

This month, the #HorseBloggers group on Facebook set a blogging theme that required us to share our top training tip (later amended to any kind of top tip). I did...

5th January 2019

Team Half-Ass and the Long Hike

Apologies for the slightly late post this week. As you may have already seen from the Facebook page, I foolishly left part of my finger behind in 2018 which makes...

26th October 2018

Marty and the Mood Diary

Last week, I had friends visit Wednesday lunchtime. I was surprised by how mellow and friendly Marty was when we arrived – four hours earlier, when I’d done morning chores...

14th September 2018

Xato and the Reason I Got Scared

If you’re a regular to the blog, you’re probably aware that I have a plethora of Not My Proudest Moments; an awareness aided by my oddly masochistic compulsion to share...

20th July 2018

Xato and the Joe Wolter clinic, part three

Xato and the Joe Wolter Clinic Part Three: Three Things I Learnt By Riding With Joe Back in April 2017, Ben and I took our Practical Animals (aka Iris and...

4th May 2018

Marty’s Mighty Masterful Mule Tale – Autumn 2017

Marty has a regular column in The Mule, which is the journal of the British Mule Society. He says some fairly outrageous things sometimes but I try not to police...

20th April 2018

Xato and the Riding Arrangement

Ben has been riding Xato a lot for me lately, working on that ever elusive stop / go / turn that is apparently not part of a draught mule’s repertoire....