Well I wasn’t far wrong in my last column when I said things seem to come in threes – it was just a matter of time before the third one happened! Dustry has been going very sweetly schooling at home, but I was having a little issue with getting him to go into the contact [...]

Since my last column life has been very hectic, for both good and bad reasons. Dustry’s advert has been live for a few weeks now and after several phone calls and a couple of viewings the main feedback seems to be that he is a little too quiet! Not a common complaint for an ex-racer [...]

It seems like the past four weeks have gone in a flash, and I haven’t had the time to blink! Dustry is now stabled at night and I’m embarking on the process of re-schooling him. He’s being very well behaved (it’s a little unnerving how good he is being!) My farrier came to put ‘grown [...]

Well since my last column it seems that spring has sprung. I’m sitting here in a T-shirt with the window open enjoying the sunshine, mega! The muddy fields are drying up, Soap and Jack are not coming in looking like creatures from a swamp, and grooming them is now only taking 20 minutes as opposed [...]

I think I’ve thawed out now… just!
2010 seemed to kick off in full winter wonderland mode and whilst I was probably more excited than most toddlers to see all the white stuff after about a week I had definitely had my fill. Before the national white out I was feeling very smug about being able [...]