Hypnotherapy, selling the house and the lameness unveiled?
Bumper Update 2023
Giving up MASSIVE knickers for lent
Yes, that’s right… you clicked on it, I didn’t force you to come here. Lent is 40 days long, not including Sundays (so, technically, it’s 46 days long over here.) It starts today, Ash Wednesday and culminates the eve of my 35th birthday, 4th April. With the sh*t storm that has been this last year,… Continue Reading →
SENSITIVE CONTENT WARNING: Miscarriage – Our Devastating Truth
I really am struggling to know where to begin this time, but I know that in order to deal with this, I need to write it all down, I need it to become a part of our lives and not something I’m scared of talking about. On August 12th, I took two pregnancy tests -… Continue Reading →
Having a baby and that mum juggle… the things they don’t tell you!
Whether you have kids or not, the juggle of hobbies/work/social life/love life/showering/etc. is a challenge in itself. But I’ll tell you what, throwing a baby into the mix has you leaving behind certain parts of who you were whether you like it or not. The Harsh Realisation I wont lie, I have cried (more than… Continue Reading →
The Truth Behind: How to get your leg over
This is the first part in my ‘Truth behind’ series and what better than to mark the three year anniversary of my first book release than to share all the nitty gritty with you on here! So, I’ve been asked many a time, how I managed to write and publish my books and the process… Continue Reading →
My Birth Story
Such a big topic to cover and so much to say! If you would prefer to watch rather than read, I will also be making a YouTube video covering this soon too. So, I’ll pick up where the last pregnancy video update left off which, in a nutshell, detailed my waters breaking at 34 weeks, my… Continue Reading →
Hello and welcome back
Have you missed me…?! Can you believe it’s been almost 6 month since I came on here with an update? I guess it all got a bit much what with the latter stages of pregnancy and squeezing a human out of my minky whilst juggling the care of two horses in winter and still remaining… Continue Reading →
Finally…. I’m Pregnant: The truth behind our conception
Here I am, FINALLY pregnant, something I’ve wanted more than anything else in the entire world SEE THIS POST FOR MORE ABOUT THAT. The bitter truth of it is, I came off the contraceptive injection and 18 months later, we still hadn’t conceived. I was torturing myself every single month reading into signs and symptoms,… Continue Reading →
Horses come first…. then me.
Lately, the thought of ‘blogging’ on social media gets me in a total spin. The fear of posting stuff someone might not like makes my heart race. I’ve been writing on various platforms for three years but still I can’t ignore this feeling… that’s when it hit me; What the actual sh*tsticks are you even… Continue Reading →
Stop, breathe, and get off the hamster wheel for a second!
The Bitter Truth Ever had that feeling; your not improving, you feel frustrated, the money is running out, you’re fretting about what other people are saying, constantly comparing yourself to others on social media… That was me, AGAIN! I felt amazing at the start of this year I was jumping better than ever, I was… Continue Reading →
*Very Personal* Wanting something too much…
Please don’t read any further if you’ve popped over here for a bit of cheery light hearted reading… it probably won’t turn out that way! I want to share this for my own sanity, I think about it everyday without fail and I think talking about it, saying it out loud might help me and… Continue Reading →
5 Things I LOVE about YOU…
Whilst swimming in a sea of social media warriors spewing out uninvited negativity, I thought I’d take the time to tell you FIVE, bloody brilliant reasons that I LOVE being one of those ‘horse people’. Go ahead, find your reason to be proud, to enjoy stinking of urine, eating packet noodles and never brushing your… Continue Reading →
On a High (fibre) at Highclere!
Some time ago I received a message, from a lovely lady asking for my address so that she could invite me to something very special. I obliged of course! (Who wouldn’t!?) Now, the invite came and it was a big surprise, The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon invite you to a special day at Highclere… Continue Reading →
Who am I?
I’m not sure… Days go by where I’m not overly sure where I’m going in life, what I do for a living or what I’m making for tea! I feel a bit in limbo again. So this time last year I was toying with leaving my full time job as Marketing Manager for a large… Continue Reading →
Learning who you are…
Some days I just cannot seem to work out how to push through. Some days I want to throw the towel in. Some days I wish I didn’t feel like this. I want to feel confident and self assured, I want to be kind and in return, be loved by people, I want to make… Continue Reading →
VLOGGING CHALLENGE: Accepted!
Being part of the blogging scene at Haynet (an equestrian bloggers paradise), some of us equestrian bloggers in the world signed up for a VLOGGING challenge this month. We were assigned a partner and tasked with interviewing each other with questions to introduce ourselves a little better. I was assigned my pair, Jake Tarrant of… Continue Reading →
My Badminton – Unlike any other year.
So I have made the pilgrimage to Badminton Horse Trials most years for the last 10 now and I can safely say that this year is the most exciting one yet. Previous years I have been giddy over the shopping lanes or walking the course but this year I have a whole new muse for… Continue Reading →
Let me explain a few things now I’m older and more wisdom-ous?!
I am pretty sure that at some point in the lives of every single one of you reading this, you have felt rotten about your capabilities, downtrodden or had your chips totally p*$sed on by someone else. If you haven’t – you are probably the one doing the urinating! My equestrian side of life has… Continue Reading →
IT’S BEEN A FUNNY FEW WEEKS ……
First off… forgive me if midway through, the flow of this is interrupted – just browsing the BE options for my first event in what seems like an eternity is loosening my bowels somewhat. So, it’s been a funny few weeks – No.1 I got married, without hitch or hiccup, No.2 I had a blissful… Continue Reading →