Getting Ready To Throw A Tantrum The time has come for Monster to repay her dues. I remember when she was the newbie to the mean streets, being shepherded round by the Naughty Pony. She soon went on to solo outings, and apart from a few tantrums on the Ribble restraining wall brought on by [...]
Two Wheels I recently had a day of mountain bike skills training with Ed Oxley of Great Rock. [Image copyright and courtesy Ed Oxley] A lot of what I had to learn was about fore/aft balance and how, for too long I’ve been leaning too far off the back of the bike. I had to [...]
Our first ODE is approaching more rapidly than I am ready for, so with a nice long Easter weekend requiring to be filled, I hired the cross country and gallops at Crow Wood in Lancashire. This is a fantastic facility right next to the M65. It has a 1 mile all-weather gallops with optional steeplechase [...]
Winter is a time for sorting out my schooling. At the yard at 6, on a horse by 6.30, off by 7.30 before clambering onto another one. Home just before 8.30, breakfast, coffee, shower and at work by 9.30. Colleagues occasionally look at their watches and make smart comments about what time they were in. [...]