Recent content by Annagain

Thanks, Wig isn't particularly long for his size but he's a still a 16.2 chunky monkey. He has the breaching bars on the middle setting on the 510, all my other horses (very similar size) had to have them on the back. His friend is very similar, maybe slightly longer but obvs he's not really a...

I'm in the market for a new trailer. I currently have a IW510 and tow it with Wilfred, my old style Defender 90, so all my stuff goes in the back of the car and it's a pain the backside to open the back door as it hits the jockey wheel. I have to drop the jockey wheel to open the door. Rehoming...

I'm sure you've already tried it but she sounds very similar to my old boy. A waterford 3 ring gag with 2 reins worked very well for him. We tried so many bits and this was the only one we agreed on. He was comfortable in it and I had enough brakes and could keep his head up in it, otherwise...

Sugar sensitivity is definitely a thing. My old share horse had terrible pastern dermatitis. It would start in autumn, continue at a low level all winter then go absolutely crazy in spring before dying down over the summer and starting again in Autumn. One year he had the summer off and got a...

That looks very neat. My old boy was riddled but we were very lucky that they didn't grow in problematic areas. He made it to 30 before old age got him, he definitely died with melanomas rather than because of them. In my experience, the melanomas themselves are rarely a problem, it's their...

There's less sex as the books go on - The author herself said there's too much sex in the first book and the first part of the second, then she learned that sex also needs to move the plot along. There is still a lot of sex but there is plot too. No. These are the only ones I've read but I...

Yes, like I said they're no literary masterpieces but they're very entertaining and easy to read. "Hockey smut" is a whole genre that I only found out about thanks to Heated Rivalry. I'm still obsessed with Shane and Ilya and may have rewatched episodes 4,5 and 6 several times over the last few...

Keep going, the sex is part of the story but not the whole story. The TV series is the same, there's a lot of sex in the first two episodes but that's just the start of their relationship and the later episodes are so much deeper.

Sort of - I went to see one and had a really silly fall off him that was my fault. I was convinced (due to my own hang ups) that he was going to stop at a fence but he was too genuine and popped it and I went out the side door. I ended up in A&E with concussion, decided that I wouldn't get over...

That’s a shame. You’re the first person I’ve seen/heard say you didn’t like it.

Not horsey at all but the Game Changer series of books by Rachel Reid would be excellent holiday reading. Heated Rivalry (terrible title, excellent TV series) is based on them. I watched the TV series, was OBSESSED with it, then read all 6 books in the series in a week, even though I was in...

They wouldn't buy my Albion GP, only sell it on commission and a friend had a similar experience with her Bates. If they're a popular make and there are lots on the market, this is the way they seem to go. I suspect that might be the case here if they already have quite a few for sale.

I'd put them down under the straw. They'll draw the moisture through the straw and leave it as nice dry mattress topper so you'll have the best of both worlds.

I've always had chunky monkeys and my Ideal Event has fitted them all, same for my friend and her two. We've both managed to keep the same saddle even though we've had new (albeit very similarly built) horses.

When I lost Ebony, I went looking for another, if slightly bigger, Eb. He was 14.1 on tiptoes, a black Sec D. I went to see a 15.1, black Section D at a dealer's and he just wasn't for me, too quiet and backwards thinking. I said this to the dealer and he said, I've got just the one for you. Out...