to leave something on your doorstep. It’s nothing a little soap and water won’t take care of. But seriously, I will have some Good Friday ruminations to make up for today’s rotten egg of a post. And that’s an Easter promise!
DAY 6 Two great people arrived today – the “boss” (aka mum) and David. I took Mr. C for a hack this morning on the hills. He took longer than yesterday to focus and stretch, but he did it no problem eventually. I love hacking through the green fields and seeing the race horses hack […]
DAY 4 Gallop day! I took Colombo out for a hack early in the morning. We trotted up the hill and went for a tour. I wanted to jump and gallop around 2:00 p.m. when my family could come and watch. Over lunchtime we went to Marlborough, which is the town just down the street. […]
1 tempis, 1 tempis…I’m going to be skipping in my sleep any night now. That has been the main focus in training lately – trying to get the 1 tempis solid. But I am getting so mad at my legs. I feel when I should react, but my right leg is just not responding. Sometimes […]
Yay! Hawley, Gamal, Natalia & Ginny arrived safely today! I took Colombo for a nice trot on the hills with Stephanie and Andrew Hoy. (Yeah, good company here.) Colombo was keen to have his head up and look around. To be fair, it’s an incredible view at the top of the hill. Green landscape with […]
Travel day. Not always my favorite… mostly because I get motion sickness and the cabin pressure hurts my ears. However, this was a night flight and I was asleep before we left the tarmac. I was a bit worried about Colombo as I had received a call from Stephanie (teammate/friend) to say he didn’t want […]
There is way too much of the ‘P’ word around these days for my taste – from the provinces to the FEI to Canadian elections – it’s all getting me down. And that was before I found out Donald Trump is running for US President. My sense of humour has disappeared into my shoes, which […]
Yesterday I wrote a tribute to the memory of BC breeder Janet Oddy, who passed away last month at the age of 81. Reading the information that her son Peter had forwarded for the article took me on a trip down Memory Lane – on the back of an Arab. I didn’t know Janet personally […]
I’m back across the pond from a great ten days at home. The trip was really nice and I had a great birthday party with friends I hadn’t seen in a while and, of course, my family. I spent a lot of time with my little nephew Liam at the park with the dogs. Oslo flew back and […]
We are still reeling from the incredible support our fundraiser Horses for Japan engendered. It was one of those ‘lie in bed on a Monday morning’ ideas that took over my life for a couple of weeks. I am always amazed by the huge scale of people’s generosity when something like this happens. I literally had people […]