A Story of Addiction, Dysfunction, Codependency… and Horses
I was cleaning out the inbox of one of my email addys [and forwarding some stuff to another one LOL] when I came across the below. This is from 2018 which in 2020 time-framing is exactly one million years ago. I had started writing about this while away from my desk; I sent it to …
Continue reading "On Replacement Horses and Not Freaking Out"
We had a riding club dressage competition (unlike the last time, it was not one day event-style, so there was no jumping) and once again, I learned more than the test. I felt confident that I knew what I was doing, as regards having memorised the thing; I was not 100% convinced that the final …
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 …
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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. …
I talk a lot about the brain in MBF (as I like to call it), as well as the body. For me, horseback riding has been a union of the two, which came as a surprise because I hadn't been aware how separate they were, for me. The paradox is that I have become united …
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 …
Continue reading "It’s Officially Official! Many Brave Fools Is Live!"
We've had three Wednesday lessons so far this year and they have been blisteringly excellent. At the end of every lesson we've been like, 'That was good' and then tried to dissect exactly why it was: 1] So much work done! Warming up in open order has gotten productive (not just mooching around behind another horse …
I'm on one of my thrice-yearly tears, throwing stuff away, giving stuff away — clearing out. Someone looking round the place might be surprised by this, because even I'm a bit 'Eh, really?' but there have been three large bin bags that have made their way out the door. We'll see, there may be more …
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