Firstly ~ relax :D You will be ok, E44 is quite a nice one.
Rising trot is absolutely fine. With the simple change of leg I'm sure a progressive transition will be fine. Is it aff or unaff? I would think that aff would probably want to see more definite transitions up and down but I always...
I love soap and glory's hand food but not sure how it would hold up with more hand working hands (I work in an office) but I did get my mum a burt's bee set for christmas and she raves about the hand cream.
We don't insure anymore, I just get the gold membership from BHS for my public liability. My boy is of an age (mid/late teens) that if anything serious went wrong then there's little chance I'd put him through it. However, we do put the money we used to pay for insurance away for those what if days.
Ha. But on the plus side, BBC breakfast had a nice bit about the eventing this morning at about 6.20 (not sure if they repeated it again later or not?) with XC clips from all 5 riders and I think it was fairly accurate too :)