Recent content by Nancykitt

I didn't realise, but it seems that it's on more than one FB group. Most of the comments I saw were along the lines of 'shouldn't be anywhere near a horse', but I can certainly believe that there will be people defending the lady in question. I find the whole thing very uncomfortable really. I...

Just seen a post from a Yorkshire newspaper about a rider who was 27.5 stone but has lost a third of her bodyweight. Apparently she put on a lot of weight following a series of bereavements and said 'I was so big my body couldn't breathe on its own.' There is a photo of her on a horse and she...

It's still winter here...it's now been 5 months of awful weather with the occasional 'good' day (as in dry and some sun, but I can count the number of these days on one hand). Today it's the usual gale force winds and torrential rain/hail 9and sometimes snow). It's the first year that the horses...

8th April Ozzy goes for an early springtime walk! We are normally able to keep the horses ticking over during the winter, riding occasionally but enough to ensure that their fitness levels are OK. This winter was different. The weather has been the worst we've experienced since we moved here...

I stumbled across a group of 'followers' who said that they looked specifically for the videos where the children in question had fallen off and/or things have gone wrong. There's something fundamentally unsavoury about this. Obviously falling and failing are all part of the sport (and the...

Exactly. I did some work a few years ago with pupils who were returning to mainstream school after homeschooling. Most of these came into 6th form having done well in GCSEs (but parents said that it had turned out to be very expensive because they bought in tutors). The students I worked with...

Agreed! And then we've got those lovely parents of the two famous Only Fans stars, who are happy for their daughters to degrade themselves (was it 1000 in 24 hours? Not sure...) It's all about the money. Parents farming out their children, whether it's the equestrian influencers or anything...

This is a good point…I know some people who think that the equestrian child influencers are ‘inspirational’ to other children but that’s not always the case. I’ve come across pony-mad kids who are very envious to the point of being resentful because they can’t afford weekly rides/lessons, let...

Re. Homeschooling- the experience and quality of home education varies massively. Where it’s good, it tends to end up very expensive because parents have to buy in subject specialists; one parent told me that it would have been cheaper for their child to go to a small independent school where...

Yes, this definitely happens. And there are vile quotes from Tattle across other SM platforms, often with comments such as 'look at this disgusting comment by the Tattle scum! How can they sink so low!' - seemingly ignorant of the fact that, by quoting, they have just given oxygen to this bin...

We have a massive problem with deer up here - and they're red deer, some of which are absolute units. They cause all sorts of issues, not just in taking over our (very limited) grazing, but in eating entire gardens. We have tried CDs, hologram tape, things that squirt water, things that...

Agreed - apologies , I was just making the point about what happens when heads are put above the parapet. In this case the parent clearly has serious issues - but it could be said that all parents of child ‘influencers’ have issues. One way or another, there is a high risk that these children...

Quite. And this is what parents of child ‘influencers’ need to understand- that no matter how many adoring fans the child may have, there will be people who thrive on nastiness and bullying. You literally can’t have one without the other. This is what makes the whole thing incredibly...

Very good point! So perhaps it's well within their means to build stables, but there's other expensive stuff going on that is diverting those funds, And the best solution is to say they need to raise money so that the child can have her dream yard! Someone said that they have recently acquired...

You could well be right here. But there's two points that come to mind... One is that I'm pretty sure that anyone raising money through GFM or similar has to be completely open and transparent about the purpose of the fundraising (or they can find themselves in fraud-related trouble.) I only...