After a long break from riding (two months or so due to the school holidays) I was really excited to get back to the centre and “my ponies” in mid-February. As you can imagine I’d missed riding and hanging around horses like crazy – and I’m not convinced the long break and lack of [...]
2008 will be remembered as an exciting and happy year, regardless of poor health and pain issues and financial crises: we became home owners and I got back into horse-riding. I feel really pleased and proud of myself for what I’ve achieved this year in regard to horse-riding; for taking that chance and leaping into [...]
After a two week break for school holidays and a nice rest for the gee-gees, RDA commenced Term 4 this week. Wheeeeeeee. The two week horsey-less hiatus was hellish, health-wise [but gee can I ever alliterate] so I was incredibly happy and bouncy to get out there for my first lesson on Tuesday afternoon. Yay; [...]
Ooh do I get extra points for most imaginative title ever? While riding lessons have been somewhat sporadic of late, both “my” pony and I are improving – and I’m having so much FUN. I love my horsey time, from the moment I fetch the narky boy from the back paddock, to when I put [...]
[Recent hiatus / lack of posting due to a couple of crap weeks; major flare ups of pain and more Coeliac attacks WHEE. Of course I missed a few lessons which is most upsetting; I’ve really come to rely on them as points to head for, to get me through the weeks.] So I had [...]
Warning: Rant Mode ON Okay so like just about everyone, I’ve been watching – only occasionally mind you – the Olympics coverage in Beijing and Hong Kong. I thought the pageantry and artistry of the opening and closing ceremonies was amazing, all that beauty and symbolism; the organisation, coordination et al of the Games was [...]
I had THE best horsey ride this morning. I had a couple of recipe-ish posts to post up but they’ll just have to wait. I was on such a high afterward I thought I’d have to take some downers or something to get back to normal. I’d had a good lesson on Tuesday; I’d [...]
Well it may not be romance we’re talking about here – at least romance between two consenting adult human beings – but it’s bloody fabulous to be back in the saddle, riding after the two week break for school holidays. Last week was the first week on the new two-lesson-per-week regime and can I just [...]
I recently changed to a more “advanced” group for my riding lesson. It’s at 0900 hrs as opposed to 1300 hrs, and as the trip out is twenty minutes or so, and I need to be there at least forty-five minutes prior to the lesson to groom and tack up my own horse and maybe [...]
You know, I had a couple of non-horsey, food-related posts lined up, but couldn’t get excited enough. Sure, finally finding The Secret to the most amazing, never-fail, heavenly fried rice [with char siew aka Chinese BBQ Pork mmm] is quite exciting, but my head is full of horseyhorseyhorseyhorsey and nothing aint gonna get done nohow [...]
