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...

21st December 2018

Team Half-Ass and the End Of Year Round-Up

❤ Another year draws to a close! ❤ The main things that happened in 2018: Marty had some man troubles in March. Ben spent a lot of time working on Xato’s steering...

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...

7th September 2018

Team Half-Ass and the Birthday Weekend

I turned 32 on Monday (not 33. I spent the entire day thinking I’d turned 33 until Ben mentioned my actual age that evening; I thought he’d forgotten how old...

31st August 2018

Maultiertreffen 2018

  Mules have introduced me to a lot of cool new experiences; from work opportunities like the magazine, to awesome adventures such as the International Pack Animal Meeting (or Säumertreffen) which...

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...

29th June 2018

Team Half-Ass and the Photoshoot With Equine Photo Design

Facebook followers of Mulography and Horsemanship Magazine will no doubt have already seen a few teaser images from the photoshoot we did a fortnight ago with Anita of Equine Photo...

8th June 2018

Team Half-Ass and the Dressage Tests

A few weeks ago, Marty won me a free entry to Sparkle Pony shows (not the Burning Man definition … well, maybe. This is Marty we’re talking about). Sparkle Pony...

25th May 2018

Xato and the Miraculous Oculus

As I mentioned briefly in my previous post, and in more detail in this vlog, Xato was involved in a freak accident with his fly mask last Tuesday and suffered...

20th May 2018

Vlog: Treating Xato’s Eyes

The last month or so has been manic. As well as having the June/July issue of Horsemanship Magazine to put together, I also had The Mule journal to get out...