Recent content by BigBayLump

This! This! A thousand times this!

I Very rarely fall in love with animals before i get them. I think it can take a few months with them for me to fell that way but it does happen without fail eventually. To this end, I'd ask myself is this a horse I'd like to fall in love with? Then I'd talk to the vet about the ragwort...

In this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9Qi0U-108M Linda Parelli suggests having her stirrup leathers between the flap and sweat flap of an English saddle. Surely that makes them likely to get hung up in the girth straps and it harder for the stirrup bars to do their job releasing the...

Not desperately keen on my Broginis, They are the cheaper field boots, Gallipolis I think, and I was excited to get some long boots that actually fitted me. (Big feet, short skinny legs). orderd in the hope that they'd be delivered in time for my birthday in October, they didn't arrive until...

The photos have been taken from this site. http://friesianhorses.eu/index.php?op=viewpage&page=5&mod_op=view_images&content_id=16&image_id=9&offset=1 It's a Dutch page, certainly not in Bolton.

Aww, thanks.for all his protestatins I think he secretly quite liked it. I think he felt ...Pretty.

He didn't do that, but when I left my phone in the stable I did come back to find it with no credit and dozens of calls to World Horse Welfare. (Apparently I'm mean with the polos too.)

I've not made numnahs, Although, when the horse I used to shade had a pink saddle cloths I was tempted to appliqué a pint and football on one to preserve our male dignity. (I gave up on that with the concept of "butch appliqué") I do do the alterations on my competition clothes, just to get...

Hi tessyBear, I'm another who's been lurking on this thread since the begining, getting more and more excited for you and TB. It's just a lovely story, and so likeably told. I'm not really one for joining lots of forums, but had to sign up to wish the both of you all the best.