Welcome to another episode of ‘I’ve been trying to write about this for weeks but every time I try it goes haywire’. I could have waited another six months until I figured out how to write about this new language I am trying to learn how to speak, but I kind of want a record of this time when I am still figuring it out. I want to be able to track my progress. When I started riding Ava recently I made a very conscious decision to do it without anyone observing. My new way of t

I'm a huge fan of the long-running medical drama Grey's Anatomy. Set in a teaching hospital in Seattle, the show follows multiple...

The woman I am sharing a lane with swims faster than I do, but takes more breaks between laps. She swims with a smooth freestyle stroke...

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...

There's a lot of conjecture going around at the moment about consent in horse training. Which is no surprise, really, because an awful...

'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...

It's Saturday, and all my plans for the day have been pushed aside because horsy Facebook has delivered me a miraculous gift. Two...

I was stuck. Not physically stuck, but mentally, emotionally and practically stuck. How do you get from 'nervous horse person recovering...

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...

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...

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...

A long-time horsy internet friend and excellent horsewoman was recently lamenting the sudden influx of videos in her social media feed...

The prevalence of spinal and pelvic malformations and exercise-induced skeletal injuries in Thoroughbred and Standardbred racehorses is...

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...

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...

Humans are brilliant at telling stories. Today I came across a Facebook post from a woman who was seeking reassurance that the...

Among my fun neuro-alternative traits are my inclination to throw myself headlong into a new interest and sometimes to drop an old...

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...

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...

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...