...which is a lovely phrase I certainly never uttered in my American life, but FYI: my first novel, Drama Queen, will be available for delivery on 4 September, here, and at good bookshops, er, maybe not everywhere, but definitely in Ireland and the UK. This 'shameless self-promotion' thing seems to be working. Ah, also FYI: …
The Best €8 I Ever Spent
So I bought a comb, brush, and pick at the horse show. And I'm not afraid to use them. Well, okay, I was. I'd nominally groomed the occasional horse, but never any of our schoolies. I had asked if it was okay, and it was, so last week, I started. Rebel was up first, as …
Thanks, Mr Television!
Geez. Apparently the show will be on the RTÉ website tomorrow, but I'm not sure if my friends overseas wiil be able to see it or not.
Oh, Man
When the phone rang kind of earlish [9.38 is early in my world], I sort of knew that maybe something was up. When I walked into the paper to be greeted with 'You're a star!' I definitely knew that the cat was out of the bag. Which begs the question: Why allow yourself to be …
I’m Really Not Going to Go Riding in Paris
I'm really not. The Club Hippique website is quaintly translated into English, and the number of forms that need downloading before you can even set your foot in a stirrup is mind boggling. Or not, if you know anything about French bureaucracy. A nice portmanteau word, that: bureau and crazy. I think I'd investigated this …
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I Really Don’t Need New Boots
I just need to take better care of the ones I've got. Because I haven't taken the best care of them, the toes are separating a bit from the sole. I don't clean them properly either; despite the crazy wet weather, even during the winter, I haven't had to scrape off mud and poo and …
Maybe I Shoulda
...brazened it out in the middle of the field. Maybe not. All the other snappers had lenses as long as my leg. Ah, the Committee Stand. It was gas.
Horse Show Mantra
I DO NOT NEED NEW BOOTS I do not need new boots, I do not need new boots, I do not need new boots... Even though I had gotten off the 130 to head for the 7, I was feeling equivocal about going to the horse show again. I had had quite a lot of …
Sensory Overload
I thought, since I'd done this last year, that I'd be better prepared for the equine avalanche that is the Dublin Horse show. I was wrong. I didn't hit the Royal Dublin Society [RDS] — a huge, sprawling expo-type place — 'til around noon, but that actually made it more intense, more people everywhere, a …
Thorseday is the Best Day!
EVER, EVER, EVER, IN THE HISTORY OF DAYS! As I walked up to the gate of Festina Lente, I wondered where I should go, to make my presence known, that I was there, whether I should go up to Jill's office— And there she was, crossing behind the gate, and we waved, and I went …
MANY BRAVE FOOLS 