Marty’s 6th birthday
Alright, prepare yourselves for a photo heavy post! Marty turns 6-years-old on the 1st March, but as the weather forecast is pretty dire I decided to celebrate a day early
Month: February 2016
Marty gets his back fixed
Things Marty has taught me: Patience (and sarcasm – I love standing in a damp field for hours) Humility (“That thing you thought you were good at? HAHA, PSYCH.” ―
Five favourite photos of 2015
For want of any actual content, here is a 2015 version of the five favourite photos meme (you can see my 2014 favourites here). He is actually running around instead
Knowledge of Literature: Nil
Sometimes, I think Marty is a lot like Sherlock Holmes: brilliant, disinterested in the mundane, easily bored and only ever a hair’s breadth from being the greatest criminal mastermind of
The replacement concept
A few weeks ago I purchased The Mule Behaviour Problem Solver, a 2014 compendium of articles by seven of the big names in the mulemanship world: Meredith Hodges, Steve Edwards, Tim
The case of the empty mule pen
When the subject of Marty’s catching issue comes up, I sometimes get sidelong glances and bemused questions such as: “Why don’t you just leave a headcollar on him/take a bucket
A positive-negative entry!
I have been extremely lax about writing here; I had planned to do a big, New Year post to sum up what we’d done and where we were going, but I