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North Lancashire Bridleways Society meets tonight at 7.30, we are having a talk from the local ratman. We meet at: Slyne With Hest Memorial Hall Hanging Green Lane Hest Bank LANCASTER LA2 6JB The friendly folk there will welcome you and tell you about events and venues in the area...

I hope you are settling into the Lancaster area. Nice here in Spring isn't it? Tuesday 11th March 2014 North Lancashire Bridleways Society's next meeting should be very interesting: Speaker:- Cedric Robinson MBE - Queen's Guide to Morecambe Bay Venue - Hest Bank Memorial Hall, Hanging Green...

Would really appreciate that. It is easy to feel isolated when you see young, healthy riders. There are plenty of the other variety out there....

Four oldish walkers on a restricted byway, ladies wearing sandals. My Fell stopped to say a friendly hello, walkers cowered in a gateway saying I should not be riding on a "footpath". Pony refused to budge, walkers refused to pass him as they "did not want to be kicked". Pony still refusing...

This happened to me, completely out of the blue, at walk. My foot was trapped under the pony, resulting in a lisfranc injury ie multiple fractures and dislocations of four toes. Surgery and three and a half months off work was no fun. Pony was fine, ambled off to eat grass while I dragged...

Thanks for all your comments. I dampened the mare's bed and the pellets have broken down nicely, she does not seem interested in eating her bed. I find mucking out a doddle, so little to remove and no digging around in disgusting slimy, smelly straw. Cannot wait to get the gelding off straw...

Welcome Essex_1978. You have already been given advice about your first lesson, hope you enjoy it, sure you will. I have had RA for six years, have been riding since I was ten (now 59), had my pony for 18 years and had my own small yard for 2 years. My RA is pretty well controlled, though it...

Have finally given up on straw after many years. Where I live now I struggle to buy it, transport it, dispose of it. After much research (here and elsewhere) I thought straw pellets would be the answer. Last night I put the mare's bed down, she chewed a few so I gave extra hay plus some...

I had a few lessons at Sandy Lane when my pony was out of action a couple of years ago. I found them really helpful, they found me a super cob to ride and were not afraid to tell an ancient rider how to improve.

North Lancashire Bridleways Society Next meeting: Tuesday, 14 January 2014 7.30 By way of something different we will have some comical poetry about horses and farming life by local farmer and poet Jim Stewart Hest Bank Memorial Hall, Hanging Green Lane, Hest, LA2 6JB I am new to the area...

Sorry you have RA at 48. I am 59 and have had it for five years. Not much fun. My new start in life was buying a 3.5 box after my parents died and I was free to do all the things with my pony that I had been unable to. Brute refused to load and RA started. Sold the box after five years as...

Also not a good idea to use it on the feathers when waiting for the farrier. My Fell nearly went up in flames when the hot shoe arrived. Farrier muttered about my stupidity..........