Along Came Freddie

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...

26 Feb I decided to try competing again and as we had BSJA (or BS as it is now) at home, I thought, why not do the Clear Round before it...

Bit of a warm up ahead of the season. Popping around yesterday's Working Hunter Course. 😍

30 January 2023 Freshly clipped and mane all smart - the first time I've gone for the full clip - and he does look super sexy! I was...

30 December We've been in the indoor arena quite a bit through December as temperatures went down to -9 and then after the cold snap, the...

1 December 2022 The beauty about being at Badgworth Arena, is that Jane runs Wednesday Night show jumping, so when I rock up on a...

22 November 2022 I'm always so grateful to the fact that there is now a show jumping course up pretty much ALL the time in my own 'home'...

12 November 2022 I'll be totally honest. I was NOT expecting 3rd out of 6. I decided to give Elementary another go, and this time, all I...

24 October 2022 We haven't competed now since June. But we've been working hard on our flat work at home and enjoying 6 mile solo hacks...

17 October 2022 So, since Jayne encouraged me to try the Elementary we've been working on our flatwork. I'm loving that Fred now manages...

Fred and I have been hacking and exploring and going for 6 mile solo hacks. Our flat work is going well and we're jumping 80cm again in...

20th August 2022 So whilst life has definitely given us a shake and I have had a bumpy week with Fred when I tried to school, there are...