Hypnotherapy, selling the house and the lameness unveiled?
Bumper Update 2023
The thing I’ve always wanted to write…
This is the one post I’ve been waiting to write for you since I started this page in 2016. It started yesterday with the usual nervous coursewalk as per any other event. Apart from, this wasn’t just any old event. Pat and I have had a rocky road out eventing, search our BE record… Continue Reading →
Happy 2022: A recap and a whole load of new years goodness!
Farewell last year I first started writing this thinking what a total non-starter 2021 was. But as I dissected it, I soon realised that actually, it was filled with a huge amount of positives. Pea was out on loan, and Pat was all fit and ready for competing in time to smash his first… Continue Reading →
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 →
Stable Management Tips: What’s in my grooming bag?
Hello my dear friends and welcome back to some very exciting content! I would like to start by wishing you all a very happy February and I hope that, even in lockdown, that you are managing to cling onto a handful of sanity. Here’s something to keep you moderately entertained, so sit back and enjoy… 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 Wimpy Weekender – July 2020
Now, I’ve had the time of my life, and I owe it all to yooooouuuu…. As many of you will know, this was my third time organising my Wimpy Weekender camps. The first one was back in May last year, it was a roaring success despite a few (behind the scenes) teething issues. The second… 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 Riding Confidence Post-Baby
It’s really hard to know where to start but I guess all the nitty gritty from the beginning is detailed in the books so I’ll briefly recap. A whistlestop tour I was a bold and fearless child rider, I would ride ANYTHING and often had to as we had no money for horses or for… 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 →
Number 6 – Keysoe: The one with the experimental dressage.
I’m rolling back to Tuesday…. my first fall in over four years. That’s right, I stacked it! I was jumping in the field (alone… like an idiot), he dropped the anchors right before a fence and unusually, I sailed over his head and onto the jump! I banged my mink box very hard on the… Continue Reading →
Number 5: The one with the ride like never before!
So here it is… Number 5 of the year, Number 2 for Pea! Just to recap a little, Pea is my newer of the two horses and although having had her on loan 6 years ago, I have had her back since the end of September 2018. Before that she was a Feral Beryl for… Continue Reading →
Let’s talk about: How much do horses ACTUALLY cost to keep?
So, maybe you’re thinking of taking the plunge into horse ownership, or perhaps you’re looking to see where you can cut your existing costs… or maybe, just maybe, you’re curious as to how much money I actually spend on my horses. Whichever it is, I’ll let you in on how much money it ACTUALLY costs… Continue Reading →
Event Number 4: The one with the 90s pop classics!
With a confident run at Norton Disney last week, I was feeling MUCH better about this one and also glad that my last XC run was so fresh in my mind. Having never been to Eland lodge and it being on the perimeter of furthest we would travel for an event, I wanted to leave… Continue Reading →
Event Number 3: The one without a refusal!!
I’m seriously struggling to know where to begin and that’s not like me at all! Let’s briefly go back to August 2018, the last time I went eventing without having a refusal! That’s right, you might have noticed that things have not being smooth sailing for us in the last year and that is down… Continue Reading →