Recent content by Keith_Beef

I'm not quite at that age, but not far off. I don't ride frequently, these days. But even so, last year I went off for a week of Équirando after not riding for something like 18 months. First day, 20km or so in an evening. One of the horses lost a shoe so the next day we had to wait for the...

Grenoside and Oughtibridge are good, as are Stockbridge. Bradfield, Stannington and Dungworth are a bit closer to the city centre. If you drive down to Malin Bridge you can use the park and ride and take the tram into town. In general everywhere around Sheffield benefits from a varied landscape...

I think I've ridden in this kind of stirrup two or three times, and I really didn't find it any different to a normal stirrup. There's a lot of choice over here, you can get them in plastic or aluminium, and pay anything between €50 and €200 a pair. Here are three that I found in as many...

There are plenty of places to visit over here in France.

Yes, this is right. PayPal pays the seller the full amount straight away and then takes the four monthly payments from the card linked to the buyer's PayPal account. I use this now and again for places like eBay. I prefer to save up the money and pay outright, but sometimes I find something at...

No, a mid-terrace probably built between 1905 and 1914 in what was then a village being swallowed into the bigger town of Sheffield.

Maybe not the house itself, but the deed to the land that it stands on can have restrictive covenants that prohibit certain activities, and these are binding on any person that acquires the land in the future. The deeds to my mum's house, for example, prohibit the keeping of pigs, the burning...

Get advice from a qualified legal professional. I agree with what @Pearlsasinger and @Jenko109 wrote, and the no selling clause is almost certainly worthless. But the horsey world sometimes seems very small and gossipy. The previous owner could very well find out and start "kicking off", in...

As as very green riders, we were told that if the horse is getting too fast on a narrow forest track and we can't slow it down, turn its head into the trees.

I've never owned a horse or even loaned or shared, but used to have a lesson every week, sometimes with an extra here or there. And I started later in life. I'd not sat on a horse in about eighteen months when I did the Equirando for the fourth time last summer. I go up to the school every...

For a bit of grace and humour: Lady Muck We all know that where there's muck, there's brass.

Might work for you, but when I see that kind of name and there's clearly nobody with those names involved I feel misled and think of the brand as being untrustworthy. There's something to be said for a brand name that means nothing... If you do the marketing right it eventually becomes...

My parents had a cat who would watch the world snooker championship broadcast from the Crucible theatre. When a ball went into a pocket she would dive under the TV set to try to find it.

I must have an easy head. First helmet was from Decathlon, tried on in the shop, bought it and wore it for about five years. But I don't like a fixed peak, I found that when ducking under low branches in the forest the peak got in the way of my vision. So I eventually bought a Charles Owen...

Grip tape (sometimes called grip strip) for skateboard decks. Self-adhesive, just make sure that the ramp is thoroughly cleaned, degreased and dried. Anti slip paint for metal stairs.