Blogs

September, 2010 As usual, it's been unusually hectic. For a couple of months, June and July, we had almost no help as our working pupil got a great job opportunity and left with very little notice. Another helper with kids…

I was fortunate enough to go to the Monty demo at The Hand last night. I guess anyone is lucky to go, but I felt particularly pleased because my two young children were almost accepting of me going, as having…

May, 2010 As we mentioned in the last issue, we’ve got a new working pupil who has made a real difference to the place. We’ve just been doing the bare necessities for so long now it’s a real pleasure to…

March 2010 At last! Some warm weather after the coldest winter in 31 years. It’s lovely to feel that Spring might really be on its way and that the snow could become a distant memory! We’ve been doing a series…

January 2010 Events on the yard have been set on hold, at least in theory, because of the publication of our hopefully soon-to-be best selling new book Born to Whisper  (available from www.borntowhisper.com), which finally took place on 16 Dec.…

September 2009 Everything is just about beginning to settle into an abnormal normality following the birth of our daughter Layla in mid June. She is thriving, an absolutely amazing little person. It's a distant memory that I took most of…

July 2009 This last couple of months we have concentrated on getting things ready and right for the birth of our second child. In the build up Adam worked very hard doing call outs and clinics. But things haven't worked…

March 2009 In our last article, we were praying for good weather in January for our In Hand clinic, following a cold snap earlier in the month. Well, we were very lucky for the clinic, and able to fit in…

January 2009 In some ways the recent cold snap was very welcome. The horses were very happy out in their winter field, with grass that would be up to their knees if it were standing upright, out of the wind,…

November, 2009 It seemed like a good idea at the time, to run clinics in November to accommodate interest after the Monty tour. And with the weather so unpredictable, there was no particular reason to suspect the weather would be…