22nd March 2019 Newspaper Mule Poetry I have lately come to realise that there is a surprising amount of mule poetry to be found in old newspapers, to the point where I am beginning to consider...
15th March 2019 Team Half-Ass and The Move (part two) Team Half-Ass and The Move Part Two: The Equines Almost three months to the day since Ben and I moved out of our flat (see Part One here), we finally...
22nd February 2019 Marty and the Last Hike In England On Friday morning, Marty and I went out on a farewell tour of the common. My friend Samantha had planned to take her son’s pony out for a walk in...
15th February 2019 Welsh Mules In The News, Vol. 1 On Monday, Ben and I finally picked up the keys to our new house in Carmarthenshire, South Wales … six month after we put our offer in! It’s been a...
8th February 2019 Canal Mules: Dolly and Dick A few months ago, my Dad asked me whether mules were used to tow narrowboats and barges on English canals. I didn’t know anything about this (which was intolerable); my...
2nd February 2019 National Storytelling Week Did you know that it was National Storytelling Week this week? Run by the Society For Storytelling, the Week is in its 19th year. Its aim – and the aim...
25th January 2019 8 Least Favourite Mules I’ve been playing with Portent’s title generator recently. As I haven’t been doing much with my boys due to my useless hand, I was a little lost for blog ideas...
19th January 2019 4 Mules Mentioned In Mythology 1. The mule of Zhang Guolao Zhang Guolao was one of the Eight Immortals – a group of legendary xian in Chinese mythology (xian means an enlightened person, someone who is...
11th January 2019 Fun Facts About Mules I went to a quiz night a few months ago with a team from work, and was bitterly disappointed when not a single question involved mules – it would, after...
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...
