{"id":1602,"date":"2012-02-13T19:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T19:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2015-08-19T17:54:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T17:54:09","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-the-cotswold-horse-whisperers-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-cotswold-horse-whisperers-10\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Life of the Cotswold Horse Whisperers, 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 2009<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

It’s a distant memory that I took most of June and July as paternity leave. Then I was put to the grindstone. From Aug 7- Sept 6 I taught five clinics, most of them five days long. As usual, we had some fascinating horses, and it was good to get back to it, in spite of the intensity. I also did two call outs. Fortunately we had a great working pupil for a couple of weeks, and Nicole is already back teaching. She says it\u2019s way easier than looking after two very small people, but having said that she has to teach with Layla in her sling, so she\u2019s still very much on duty.\u00a0 Somehow, we’re also trying to get our second book finished. We’re hoping it will be out for Xmas.<\/p>\n

But the new arrival has given us the opportunity to re-examine certain aspects of our lives, and the fact that we have many \u201cfree-loaders\u201d in our herd has become painfully obvious. It\u2019s not that we didn\u2019t already know we were an unofficial charity, it\u2019s just that we\u2019ve come to the realisation that it can\u2019t continue like this indefinitely. We\u2019ve come to the difficult decision to re-home a few.<\/p>\n

To that end, whenever there\u2019s been a spare moment on a clinic, we\u2019ve been working the perfectly sound\u00a0 but underused horses that have been gracing our pastures for the last few years. There\u2019s Karma, Sensi\u2019s daughter, a Trakehner x TB, and High Flyer,\u00a0 the Welsh cob. We\u2019re hoping to get them just a little more established before moving them on. Selling or loaning horses has never been our strength, which is probably how we\u2019ve ended up with no less than nine of them! Of course, it isn\u2019t an easy time to be doing this, and we\u2019ve had even more enquiries ourselves from people wanting to find homes for theirs, but we\u2019re confident that in time we\u2019ll find somewhere really good for them. (Anyone interested?! Email us@whisperingback.co.uk if you are!)<\/p>\n

We\u2019re looking forward to several more clinics this year – in fact, it\u2019s really only Christmas that we\u2019re stopping for. We had our ten year anniversary of taking over the lease here last week, and we\u2019re wondering what the next ten years will bring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}