Riding horses  in a way that they like can seem so difficult  sometimes. Because it is! Sometimes trying to pretend things aren’t so difficult just gets us into more and more trouble. I mean, take gadgets, for example.

Over the last few days I’ve been reflecting a lot on why I do what I do and I guess it all goes back to my youth. Back in the day, “when I were a lad”, I was absolutely hopeless at sport. Sport, in those days, basically meant a quick game of football in the […]

One of my early teachers proposed a stunningly simple set of guidelines for riding horses; Rule 1 – don’t annoy your horse

Well, we made it! Jo, Katy the cat and I have now completed our long awaited house move to Taunton in Somerset. Partly through necessity (due to the ongoing after effects of our near-fatal car crash) and partly because we both felt it was time to move on to the next chapter of our lives, […]