For Angel.   She’s 21. She’s not sick, or lame, or anything like that, but she has started throwing in unexpected stops at showjumping, and last weekend at Pony Club Lauren was convinced she “wasn’t Angel”. Kudos to you, Lauren, for noticing. This pony has taught a number of children to ride, she has taken […]

This was the ride that almost wasn’t. I had a Funder style build up to this ride: http://www.fundersgoodidea.com/2014-twenty-mule-team-100/. On my way to work on the Friday morning the truck stopped. literally, doing 30 miles an hour, the engine and all electrics cut out. Meaning no power steering, no brakes, nothing.  Luckily I managed to coast to […]

Actually, 37.5 miles is still a long way.. I fell fairly and squarely into the “It’s “only” 60km” mindset last week – and I got caught out as a result. We finished, but Joe was a lot more tired and quite a bit more sore than I either liked or would have expected. We also, […]