Along Came Freddie

9 February So this was a little bit of a last minute decision. I wasn't sure how work was going to pan out this week and on Thursday, a...

31 January Yup, it's a glory post, but since this has NEVER EVER happened before for me in 20 years of competing on ANY of my horses (and...

25 January I decided to take December and January off competing. They are cold, wet, grey day kinda months and it's nice just to take a...

20 November When your photographer is talented and makes a bad day look like a good day..... And despite a naughty cross pony, I'm...

29 October - BEACH! With the weather being pretty torrential all month, I wasn't sure we were going to get such a lovely beach ride, but...

30 Sept and the first of the Winter League BD Quest competitions. The day was hot and humid, making for quite lethargic ponies.... And I...

Two years ago this weekend, Fred and I stormed around Pontispool doing our first ever BE together. Mum was there, the weather was great...

Super proud of my BE-E-EAU-TIFUL Freddie. He gives me so much, all of the time and today was no different. Finishing on 4 faults (4...

On 9 August, Fred and I went down to Mill Farm in Wedmore, mostly just to get the old ditch practice on. Once again, Fred flew everything...

30 July was a busy day for BKRC, we had a BD Quest team at Badgworth and 3 show jumping teams at KSEC. This was our first (and my first)...

On 12 July we headed to Mendip Plains for a spot of XC schooling. I wanted to go and see where we were at. Given that our attempt in...

Having not competed since Hartpury due to work requirements, I was delighted that Jane was putting on Combined Training at Badgworth. The...

Don't know what to say!..... It was amazing!! Planning for the weekend It was so exciting to be planning my first "Away-stay" competition...

Badgworth kindly put on a Pre-Hartpury Dressage Competition on Sunday 14 May - with a week to go to Hartpury Champs, it gave everyone...

Turns out, I'm doing so many competitions these days that I completely forgot to post one! Having qualified for Hartpury, it seemed like...

They say a picture tells a thousand words.... I love this pic. I think it 100% shows how pleased I was with Freddie. The dressage...

We've had a busy month on the non-horsey front since our triple competition month in March. I had hoped to the do the Dressage at home on...

There has been much chatter in the SEO world about ChatGPT/Bing and the introduction of Google Bard and its impact on our universe... And...

He was a prat, but we've finally done a BD class and we did go in at Elementary! It was 4 degrees and wet. Fred had been in all week and...

This was perhaps the most exciting thing I've done as an adult! It was very strange warming up because, warming up for Dressage/Eventing...