As I gaze longingly out the window right now, the sun is shining and I don't have my lesson until much later. SIGH. This is the perfect weather for a lesson: sun, blue skies, cool temps. I have long been obsessed with the weather, but since taking up horseriding it has leveled waaaay up. Not …
ICYMI: The Gloss Magazine!
Delighted share this link: The Gloss Magazine appears monthly with the Saturday Irish Times and between that and the wonderful photo shoot* with Kieran Hartnett, this is one of the highlights of my press year thus far. Please do click through! *Sadly, Cathal wasn't available to model, and his replacement wasn't 100% up for it. …
No Pictures, No Ribbons, No Nothing — But a Really Good Round
Hmmm, can't immediately recall when this was (too lazy to for a trawl through the posts), but it's a while ago — cannot imagine getting Cathal round a course of 80s at this stage... *** We didn't jump on Tuesday, and we didn't jump on Saturday, and I woke up on Sunday wondering, Do I …
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Happy International Women’s Day
This will stand, I think, as my annual IWD greeting. Delilah figures largely in Many Brave Fools, so even more fitting, then. When going over the proofs I came across the part where I was talking about how I had gone to back to riding her after an injury, because I wasn't 100% and couldn't …
It’s Officially Official! Many Brave Fools Is Live!
Early on in the book (not really much of a spoiler), I recount my first day on the yard, a neophyte, unsure of where I should be or what I should be doing. I was so intimidated by the whole taking-a-horseback-riding-lesson thing that I wandered around in a daze. I spotted a clutch of girls …
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Nice Try, RAIN
Another blast from the past. We were thwarted by fog last week: it was so thick the 7 o'clock lesson had to leave the lower arena and work indoors, as did we at 8. The fog started creeping over the half doors toward the end, it was pretty creepy. Did we stop? We did not. *** …
This is What Happens On Saturdays
Awwwww... so glad I blogged, it's like having a family album. This is my old Saturday routine and while I'm feeling all warm and fuzzy about it, my journey to the yard is much easier these days! *** OCTOBER 2006 I get up. I leave the flat in good time, to do some errands in town, …
THAT’LL Never Happen Again*
Another blast from the past... hahahahahahahahahahahaha! SERIOUSLY So I got to the yard early, as I am now wont to do on a Tuesday. It's summer, and who wants to be anywhere else when the sun is shining on a Tuesday night a week before the solstice? I ask you. When I went to say …
Hey, I Forgot Something…
Here's post from 2012. Once, I arrived back on a Tuesday morning at stupid o'clock, took a nap, and went up for my lesson. Once we were mounted, one of my pals said, 'Didn't you just get back today?' and I was like SHHHHHHH — I was sure my instructor would tell me to go …
MBF Q&A: What’s MBF Mean?
This may be the best question of them all! The title of the book Many Brave Fools is based on a mnemonic taught to riders in order to remember letter markers in a dressage ring. What does this title mean to you and how does it capture the heart of your memoir? This memoir had …
MANY BRAVE FOOLS 