I lifted my foot and placed in the stirrup, and started to lift myself onto Amigo's back. No go. I had explained all about the injury to the girls before the lesson. One of them rides on Tuesdays now, and I had texted her to tell her to tell our instructor that I wasn't going …
Where is My Brain?
This happened weeks ago. Monday morning, Bray. I leave my house at around 8am-ish, to get out there in good enough time for my 10.15 lesson. There's a long walk down a long road, and I hate rushing. I walk at a ruminative pace, and have plenty of time to change into my riding boots, …
Uh Oh
So, a couple of posts ago, Carrot asked me how I was going to style up my pone for the big test... Still no pone. And I see how this could be a problem. Even though I have been riding Malabar for a good long time now, it's still not the same, is it? And …
So, Yeah, Who Knew?
I had no idea that I could hurt myself doing dressage. Although what I was doing by the end of Monday's lesson was not strictly dressage. It was more like trying to get the horse to stop skipping out of bounds on a canter circle. It was bound to be a tricky lesson. Malabar had …
Owwaaaaaa
I have had some mighty falls. I had one where my physio said that one of my vertabrae [at the top] was, in his words, a little knocked out of alignment. I had one where the bruise took two weeks to come up, it was so deep. That time I got knocked out? That was …
MANY BRAVE FOOLS 