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Finding his feet
Finding his feet #blog #parelli #naturalhorsemanship
Prince doesn’t know how many feet he has. As an inexperienced riding horse, and one who has done a lot of Parelli playing from the ground, but not a lot of real schooling work, he often fails to pick his feet up, particularly at the trot. As I don’t wish to be put on the floor, I decided this should be something we work on pretty soon. I’m not planning on competing or doing any dressage with…
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Sunny Sussex
Sunny Sussex #blog #summer #countryside
It’s been three years since I’ve seen a British summer, and I’ve noticed myself lately driving around as I go about my business, as if seeing the countryside and weather for the first time. A change really is as good as a rest, apparently. I grew up in a small village, and as a child I found it boring. As a horsey kid, it shouldn’t have been that way, it should’ve been wonderful. But my loan…
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Product review - Berlei riding bra
Product review - Berlei riding bra #blog #sport #equestrian #womeninsport @LessBounce
Being quite famously attached to my Panache sports bras, I was sceptical about trying the Berlei one, but I needed a nude-coloured bra for the summer, and the Panache doesn’t come in nude. Time to push my comfort zone (quite literally!) and give Berlei a whirl. In addition to being brand-loyal, the other reason I was suspicious of the Berlei is because it doesn’t look much like a sports bra. It…
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A bit of both
A bit of both #blog #psychology #personality #comfortzones #learning
“I’m actually quite shy,” I once asserted. The person I was talking to – a woman who worked for my university and, essentially, hired me on a freelance basis to help run open days and other faculty events when I was a student – laughed. Hard.
She’s not alone. Few people who’ve met me – particularly those who have known me for a while – would regard me as shy or introverted. And largely, I’d…
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Old ground
Old ground #MMBHT @BBCSport #sport #equestrianism #media
We’ve been here before. A year ago, I blogged on the flaws in the BBC’s coverage of Badminton Horse Trials, one of the highlights of the equestrian calendar. Unbelievably, the coverage in 2015 was worse than before. Admittedly, I missed the coverage on cross country day because – guess what? – I was out with my friends’ horses, but I was kept up to date by my sister, and cross country day…
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Elephants and mice
Elephants and mice #blog #psychology #personality #work #training
Since beginning my adventures as a would-be equine learning facilitator, the lesson I’ve found that we teach most frequently is the difference between introverts and extroverts. It feels strange to say it, because once people learn this lesson, they tend to wonder why they missed it previously, but sometimes you can’t see the elephant in the room for looking. Even I didn’t realise some of the…
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Interview with Champion – equestrian equipment manufacturer
Interview with Champion #blog #equestrian #sport #interview #equipment
A few weeks ago during Blog Hour, I mentioned some brands that I’d like to engage with more directly. The manufacturer of my own choice of horsey headgear responded, and their PR rep – Jenny at Halcyon Days– organised for them to answer some burning questions I had. My questions were passed to Managing Director Sarah-Jane Fedarb, and her answers are below. Many thanks to Jenny (and, again, the…
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Masterclass
Masterclass #blog #sport #broadcasting #television
I’m very lucky that, despite my poor financial situation, I am still finding ways to enjoy myself, ably assisted by my family. One of the things I’ve done recently was attend a recording of The Clare Balding Showwith my Mum. As with all TV audience things, the tickets were free, and unlike most other shows, these ones were guaranteed (with UK shows, production companies tend to over-book…
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Open for... everyone!
Open for... everyone! #blog #equinelearning #charity #events #eventprofs #openday #sussex
I mentioned previously that we’re having some open days at the charity I’m working with, Equine Partners CIC (new website still in the works!), so I thought I’d share some more details! Behold, our lovely flyer:
If ponies and cake aren’t enough to entice those from far and wide, how about this: we’ll be running demonstration sessions, open to anyone who shows up – once we have enough people,…
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Progress
Surprise - I'm back! #blog #naturalhorsemanship #riding #equestrian #HorseHour
It’s poor form for a blogger to take an unannounced hiatus, but it had to be done. My life is still pretty unremarkable, in that the debacle with my new job failing to be able to give me a start date rumbles on, so my days are actually startlingly empty, but that perhaps is an explanation for the impetus to blog being lacking! Not that I intend to blog a lot about my day job when it finally…
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Getting around
Apart from the facts that I have yet to save up and am still undecided as to where I will spend the summer of 2015, one of the factors which is holding me back in my First Horse Hunt is the fact that I have no means of transporting said furry friend. Neither my parents nor I own a vehicle which is capable of towing a trailer, and I’ve also never towed anything before. So I’m sure you can also…
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What I was doing while you were breeding – book review
What I was doing while you were breeding – book review
Don’t worry, I’ll stop showing off soon. I’ve now finished all of the books on the “books I was truly excited about reading” list, so things are bound to slow down now. Or maybe it’s time to make good on my promise to review the Ladybird book I got for Christmas…
Last September, my friends and I spent a night at Portland airport. It was no accident – we weren’t victims of cancellation or…
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Setting up for a win
Setting up for a win #blog #equestrian #naturalhorsemanship #parelli
Due to high winds, Prince got a reprieve last week. He doesn’t know that, of course. He never knows what’s going to happen when I show up, and this week he got a bit of a shock.
The plan was to test the “it never takes longer than two days” theory (meaning that there’s a limit for how long even the most stubborn or messed up horse will hold out before realising that they’re doing things the…
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The art of giving
The art of giving #blog #gifts #presents #birthday #Christmas #anniversary #occasions #friends #family
I’m one of those horribly shallow people who loves to shop. Full on, Confessions of a shopaholic-style, get a thrill out of a great purchase kind of person. I don’t know why. It’s an expensive habit, and try as I might, I can’t shake it. However, it does come with positives, one of which being that I give great gifts. Because I enjoy shopping, I don’t mind if I do it all day in pursuit of…
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Phase four
Phase four #blog #parelli #naturalhorsemanship #equestrian #training #riding
“It’s okay,” they said, “we understand that sometimes you have to go to phase four.” Prince and I got a workout in last week, and I had some questions. Namely: “has it got to the point where he’s now taking the mickey out of me?” and “am I reading this correctly?” (the answer to both was yes).
The session led me to notice a few things: Prince has got to the stage where he’s confident enough to…
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Pedal power
Pedal power #blog #legacy #london2012 #olympics #cycling #sport
For Christmas (2013, I should note), I bought my Dad a track cycling experience at London’s velodrome. Yes, that velodrome, the one where Team GB’s cycling contingent ensured that the cycling team as a whole would have come tenth in the Games medal table by themselves if they were competing as a country (bumping Australia down to eleventh). As part of London 2012’s legacy programme (which we…
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Public service announcement
Public service announcement #blog #career #work #equestrian #eventprofs
“Nobody gets it,” I moaned a few weeks ago. “People think I can be persuaded to go back.” Last month, it emerged that the job I left two years ago had become available again… and that my former boss had also resigned. Cue friends, former colleagues and other people asking if I’d be applying. I probably didn’t help the situation by attending a trade show last month. Or the fact that my…
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