Are you too knackered to read today’s post? Well now you don’t have to! Watch my private security guard SS as he reads this post with the most delightful British accent, to give you the real feel of what it’s like here in London. If you prefer to take in this blog in silence, by […]
Greetings from Greenwich! I just set the time zone on my lap top and was tickled that for the first time ever I got to select ‘Greenwich Mean Time’. Every major championship I’ve been to has had a theme that became a common thread throughout my experience, and that inevitably seeped into my blogs. The […]
It’s show time! After months and months AND MONTHS of hype, the London Olympics are finally upon us. If, like the majority of sane people who own TVs, you plan on enjoying the action from the comfort of your couch, I wish you all the best in tracking down equestrian coverage. If CTV and NBC […]
Just a quick note to let y’all know that for the next two weeks I will be posting daily either on this blog or on my Canadian blog Straight-Up from the center of our sporting universe, the London Olympics. I will board a Virgin Atlantic flight this evening (I do hope the ‘virgin’ doesn’t mean […]
It’s not every day I find myself in unconditional agreement with the boobalicious star of an eighties show I never watched and the model for a magazine I’ve never perused, but yesterday I found myself nodding enthusiastically while reading a CBC news story titled ‘Pam Anderson slams chuckwagon races’. Two weeks ago I saw a […]
Today we will take a little break from all the pre-London frenzy to quietly reflect on the escalating state of disunion in Welly World. This week, two major announcements made their way down the chute into the bull ring: Wellington’s 2018 WEG bid has been withdrawn, and Welly town council has edged one step closer […]
(Parental advisory: Today’s post is rated ‘curmudgeon’ and is not recommended for anger-sensitive readers) Last Thursday, the long awaited ‘official’ Olympic team announcement was finally made at Spruce Meadows. A press release was issued at the same time, a document of the same name as today’s post minus the word ‘correction’ which contained no fewer […]
It looks like not going to the Olympics is big news after all. Of course I knew why the media was all over the young Saudi woman not making the show jumping team like so many fat kids on so many Smarties. It would have been a giant leap for Arab woman-kind if she had […]
I last wrote about EC’s ex-CEO, the man I used to refer to only partly in jest as ‘our fearless leader’, some weeks ago. After all, now that Akaash is no longer part of that well oiled bureaucratic machine known as Equine Canada, why would I write about him any more? Well, a bit of […]
Bit of a slow week for the news, wouldn’t you say? After all the Colbert kerfuffle over giving dressage some free, if not entirely wanted, publicity, and the flurry of Olympic team announcements (yes, even Canada jumped on that wagon as it was just about to pull out of the barnyard), we have been treated […]
