Recent content by 1987

I'm sorry but you were trespassing, if landowners have to put 'private' signs up at every gateway they would be bankrupt. Say if next doors rabbit was happily munching your grass and flowers in your garden you would instintively pick it up and march around to next door to give them their...

One horse comes to mind - Theodore O'Connor

Look up Rhino Runner Wheelbarrow. Folds up easily and you can use the tubtrug for all sorts of things including carting tack, hay, feed, and water bucket. You could even have 2 tubtrugs (1 for poo and 1 for clean stuff). Once you have 1 another doesn't take up much space. I love tubtrugs and now...

Take it from me, don't go to a competition for the 1st trip out. I made that mistake and had to overnight the horse there and then hack back over the next 2 days with another overnight stop at a friends which was luckily half way on the route I was taking. When I eventually got back home and...

I went there yonks ago for a jumping competition. No idea what it is like as a livery yard now?! I went past on Sat night (about 10pm) and it appeared that horses were turned out in the bit I warmed up in yonks ago eating hay and with all the lights on. I thought that was strange??

My boy is the same you can have the front ramp open and the bar down and he will go in with help of his MR halter but if you have the front ramp open and the front bar up he won't go in. I did think that maybe the bar was a little hard so still thinking about padding it out to provide something...

I part loaned my horse last summer to 2 girls for £20 per week for 3 days of riding. I took them to competitions and there was minimal jobs to do (poo picking occasionally). I am now about to embark on a new loan/share sort of agreement. I was looking for a sharer for my boy to be kept at my...

Do you think there would be any merit in providing a blow-by-blow account from putting in planning to installing the arena (DIY) with pictures and selling it for a small fee? I am hoping to put in a planning application for a 20x40 arena in the next month (i'm a planner) and then IF I get PP...

I may know of somewhere near Longwick, PM me if you want to know more.

I pay £29 for 45 mins not at home but also not at the instructor's. This is a shared lesson and it is through my Riding Club. Looking around this seems fairly hefty, although the instructor travels an hour to get there and it is in an indoor school which is charged out at quite an expensive rate.

I took my TB last season and he was terrible. Started at the back and made it to the front before the 1st line, I promptly went back to the trailer and cried :( My boy looks like he could be a brill hunter, albeit the jumping could be a problem, but I think maybe I am just too small for him...

TBH if she ever replied to my advert for share/part loan I would tell her where to go, what does she want next. A gold plated stable???

My boy has never had water in his crate, mainly to do with knocking it over but partly to stop excessive weeing. He has slept through the night since he was 9-10 weeks old (but that is only because he was in an outdoor kennel-he's now inside) and he is now 16 weeks. I thought I would have real...

I use a crate that I 'borrowed' from a pub, I can leave it by my trailer and not worry about people stealing it as it didn't cost me anything and it is the perfect height to get on.

My TB needs a lot of leg to keep him actually moving, if a pheasant shoots out of the hedge then that is a different matter but schooling involves a lot of leg work from me. I rode someone else's TB and I couldn't get him to stay in trot longer than 2 strides, I just physically couldn't get...