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You May Be Entitled To Compensation...
It has been a strange few weeks for me. The thought I keep having is that the days are too short. Not that time is going too quickly, but...
elcarimf
May 279 min read
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'Yes,' With An 'if...', 'No,' With A 'but...'.
There's a lot of conjecture going around at the moment about consent in horse training. Which is no surprise, really, because an awful...
elcarimf
May 85 min read
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Roll Away Your Stone
'Roll away your stone, I'll roll away mine Together we will see what we will find Don't leave me alone at this time For I'm afraid of...
elcarimf
Apr 216 min read
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A Pocket Full of Pony Crack
It's Saturday, and all my plans for the day have been pushed aside because horsy Facebook has delivered me a miraculous gift. Two...
elcarimf
Apr 74 min read
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Piercing the Veil
I was stuck. Not physically stuck, but mentally, emotionally and practically stuck. How do you get from 'nervous horse person recovering...
elcarimf
Mar 45 min read
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Top 5 Surprising Ways Humans Are Similar to Horses.*
We have more in common with horses than we realise. But the things we have in common tend to be the things we don't really understand...
elcarimf
Jan 244 min read
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Never For Money, Always For Love
In the last couple of years while I've been dabbling in horses but too sick to get right into it in a practical way, I've been listening...
elcarimf
Jan 243 min read
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A Life Like Charlie
In January 1997 I bought a foal. I had attempted to breed a foal from my Pony Club mare, Bessie, by my friend's fabulous Crabbet Arabian...
elcarimf
Jan 64 min read
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Broken Women and Narcissists
A long-time horsy internet friend and excellent horsewoman was recently lamenting the sudden influx of videos in her social media feed...
elcarimf
Dec 4, 20244 min read
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Bad to the Bone
The prevalence of spinal and pelvic malformations and exercise-induced skeletal injuries in Thoroughbred and Standardbred racehorses is...
elcarimf
Jun 30, 20244 min read
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Sparky's Dream
This is Kirby. At the time of writing this, Kirby is 6 months old, and as the photo suggests he is not an especially shy kid. Kirby's...
elcarimf
Jun 29, 20247 min read
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Why
So this one is kind of fluffy (which seems to be a bit of a theme at the moment), but I think I have finally, after 35 years, figured out...
elcarimf
Jun 16, 20243 min read
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Tell Me A Story
Humans are brilliant at telling stories. Today I came across a Facebook post from a woman who was seeking reassurance that the...
elcarimf
May 26, 20243 min read
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I'll Know It When I Find It
Among my fun neuro-alternative traits are my inclination to throw myself headlong into a new interest and sometimes to drop an old...
elcarimf
Mar 30, 20244 min read
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... and Buckskins.
At some point in your life, if you are kind of lucky, you find yourself asking 'why can't I have what I like just because I like it?'. I...
elcarimf
Mar 1, 20244 min read
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Moving the Goal Posts
When I started making moves toward riding again, my goal was to one day ride a dressage test. My main obstacle in this regard, or so I...
elcarimf
Feb 11, 20243 min read
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The Broken Rider
When you're around horses for a long time, you eventually find yourself in a place where you can cope with a less well-adjusted or even...
elcarimf
Jan 2, 20244 min read
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No Vices
I've been looking at a lot of ads for horses for sale, and consequently horses wanted, and it's an interesting phenomenon to observe....
elcarimf
Jan 2, 20243 min read
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Fight The FOMO
FOMO - Fear Of Missing Out - is a funny thing. There is hardly a day goes by when I don't come across something on social media that...
elcarimf
Nov 3, 20232 min read
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Next Week, When I Feel Better...
Back in April I was in good shape. I was walking, swimming and doing intervals on the treadmill. I had just started horse riding again...
elcarimf
Oct 22, 20233 min read
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