As you might have guessed from the absence of my usual verbosity on yesterday’s posts, I have found myself at something of a loss for words. But I can assure you the situation is temporary. You would have to quite literally rip my tongue out by the hinges and cut off both my hands (maybe […]
Akaash’s heart-felt and understatedly witty letter to Canada here. For those of you in Canada who care enough to have an opinion, I ask you to make sure you know enough to own the opinion you choose to have. I will do my very best to help in the knowledge department. Kerri McGregor, chair of […]
if you are Canadian and a member of EC. Click here Yes, I will be postponing my 2012 predictions in order to blog tomorrow about this piece of truly shocking news, which until a few days ago I could not have predicted in a million years.
If you didn’t check out my link to the Akaash web mini-series I mentioned in yesterday’s post, you really should take a peek at what the Horse Junkies posted today about Wonderful Welly World’s un-wonderful dressage woes. It’s so witty and to-the-point I wish I’d written it myself. And speaking of other blogs, I have […]
Happy new year everyone! I know we are already a week into 2012 and 2011 is fading fast, but I am going to impose my top list for the past year on you anyway, for the reason expressed in the old Scots cliché that serves as this post’s title: for old time’s sake. I actually […]
Ever since I learned there was no Santa at the age of around eight, I find this time of year dreary, and Vancouver’s S.A.D. weather certainly doesn’t help. I am what you might call a Christmas runaway, always running away somewhere else for the holidays so that I don’t have to put up Christmas lights outside […]
Today, a special treat. A few weeks ago I saw Young Rider Monica Houweling – individual FEI Jr. bronze and freestyle silver at the 2011 NAJYRC – at the BC Young Riders Annual shindig. She mentioned that she had been to this year’s Global Dressage Forum, an event which as you know, I was […]
It wouldn’t seem like the best remedy for the migraine I have been suffering for two days, but I went on FEI TV this afternoon (it really is worth the annual subscription fee) and treated myself to some freestyle action from Stockholm last weekend. I LOVE Patrik Kittel’s freestyle for Toy Story. It’s quite a long […]
We live in a world that constantly bombards us with information, whether we want it or not. TV, radio, the internet, and of course that old fashioned medium that I still cherish – the printed word – relentlessly deliver everything from how to lose an inch off your waist without dieting or exercise (just put […]
It’s as though the tragic death of Hickstead provoked some kind of domino effect last week. I’m very sorry to learn the sad news of several more losses: Beth Underhill’s Monopoly passed away just days after being inducted into the Jump Canada Hall of Fame as a member of the 1991 Pan Am Games team; Catherine […]
