Equine Behaviour, Training and Relationship Building
In this category, you can peruse all my life updates from what I’m doing with my horses to any fun trips I take in my day to day life… enjoy friends :)
I plan to have a super fun year this year with Bo because my partner and I have plans to move away next year which means he will be staying here with my mum to retire. I’m hoping I’ll have someone to ride him now and again, just to keep him ticking over, but this …
It’s been a while since I’ve posted to my blog purely because of a lack of motivation, I felt I had nothing to say and work was particularly busy. I did even consider deleting my blog for a while when I thought to myself “what’s the point?” -but I have come to my senses. I …
Today marks the first day of the Easter Holidays and I am super excited to get Bo fit for summer. I want to have a really fun summer with Bo this year and do some jumping just for fun (very low level as he is arthritic so we’ll only be jumping tiny fences), hack further …
To continue on with my liberty challenge, I started with lesson 4 which was grooming at liberty. I had Bo in the yard at Liberty and offered him a groom. On the day, Bo was pretty pre-occupied with eating the snow which was amusing but he did let me give him a little sweep over …
The weather really is horrendous right now so I’m just taking my time with these lessons for my liberty challenge. I have owned Bo for around 8 years now and I know him pretty well so I have decided to sort of do bits and bobs of lessons 1-3 together. I think if I had …
Recently, I haven’t really known what to be doing with myself. I had set the goal at the start of the year to buy another horse to compete on, but being completely open and honest, when my partner and I looked into costs of moving out, I realised that I couldn’t afford another with Bo. …
Things have been a little different recently because I have been working from home Tuesday to Friday every week as schools have switched to online learning. I only go into school on a Monday to support the key workers children and other vulnerable children so on a Monday, it is the same routine, I just …
I love New Year. There is just something about the close of a chapter and an opening of another that excites and inspires me. I find it helpful to reflect on the year past and to find hope and make decisions for a better year to come. I have already got my new journal sorted- …
I recently read an article in a horse magazine all about how the lockdown was experienced by horsey people when it was announced on the 23rd of March this year. Consequently, I thought I would write a little post to do the same. It will be interesting to look back on this next year when …
Since the last time I blogged, I have been doing a lot of thinking about where I want to go with my horsey passion and about the things I want to do. Originally, I was attracted to competing in dressage but as I've thought about it over the last couple of weeks, I've realised that …
Continue reading "My Riding Ambitions; A Heartfelt Confession (pt 2)"
Recently, I've been thinking about what I want to do in respect to my horsey passion. I've become aware that my work as a teacher is very time consuming and full on which has meant I haven't spent much time with my horses over the last few weeks. I've felt a bit down and out …
Continue reading "My Riding Ambitions; A Heartfelt Confession (pt 1)"
I must say, as much as I enjoy my job as a school teacher, boy am I glad to be off. This is my second week off and I have enjoyed it very much. I always think it is so important to recharge with such a time-consuming job as teaching and a way I do …
If you follow my instagram- @bbequines - you will see I have started to ride a lovely little horse called Harry. I have known Harry for a long time- I used to ride him when I was about 15 or 16 years old and he was 5. Somehow, 10 years later we have ended up …
My my, it has not been a productive pony week. Otherwise, things actually have been quite productive, I’m on top of my studies and I’m feeling organised but Bo and I just haven’t done much this week. Sometimes I feel like I don’t really know what to be doing with him but then I think, …
With Bo starting to gain a bit of fitness, we had our first schooling session this week and it went really well. We started off by walking around the arena in hand. It was a little bit windy and Bo had his bug eyes on looking around in his wee unsure way so we had …
With bringing Bo back into work and spending my time with only him now that it is just the two of us since I sold my youngster on, I have realised just how much of a bond we still have, despite our lack of quality time spent together over the past year. I have been …
I took a big step today and went to the Edinburgh University Equestrian Club's open day to have a lesson. I haven't had a lesson in around 2 years, in fact, I haven't had consistent lessons since I was at college when I was 17 years old. At that time I had two lessons a …
Bo has been in very inconsistent work over this past year but we are now at a point where I have more time to dedicate to him and so I have decided to bring him back into a decent level of work. However, this is not as simple as just throwing the saddle on and …
Bo and I have been together for a long time. I've had him since he was 12 years old and he is now 18! I can never quite believe my little horse is this age, though it is not as if he acts it!Just the other day I was saying how he has mellowed out …
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