Diary of an Amateur Equestrian on Maternity Leave
Here is where I put any pondering posts.
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Picture this- you have just gotten off work, you know you’ve got your horse to see to before you can get home, shower, eat, tidy, work some more. So, you rush to the yard and get started on the chores of things like mucking out, making haynets, filling water buckets. You do all this at …
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 only been at our current yard for a few months however it really just isn't right for us. I moved there as I thought it would benefit my young horse as she was becoming increasingly difficult however in the end I made the difficult decision to sell her. That meant it …
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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