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We're hoping to make the full move over in a 2 to 3 years (which feels like forever). We've got to restock our finances since the wedding! But I've been planning the move since before he and I met. We're exceedingly excited!

oh! is that the Sandhurst draghunt? Their website is very freindly! I'm starting to find nice ones. Most of the ones I've seen so far all require minimum days per week to hunt with affiliate clubs and very, very strict uniforms etc. Thank you!

ah no! We've recently hopped over to the UK because we're hoping to make a permanent move in a year or two and want to scope the whole thing out. So I haven't changed the location yet haha Australia from what I'm aware of have barely any hunts. England is just the mecca of horse for me compared...

Yes buddying up would be ideally what I want! I can adapt pretty well once I'm comfortable but I really do need someone to guide me at least once or twice before I can say "ok, I'm ready to try it on my own" Socialising is a goal :) it's really hard for me to venture out and meet people so...

I've wanted to try a hunt for a while now, and I've read about a lot of clubs and rules and customs. I'm interested in trying a drag hunt, as fox hunting would be too advanced for me on so many levels haha I'd love to have a crack at a day out, but I'm terrified that I will get it all wrong...

I do the same with my dog too. When she was younger she would go to another part of the house to sleep and I wouldn't see her breathing (she snores like an elephant now) and panic that she had passed away somehow in her sleep cause I turned my back for a SECOND. Holidays are a total stress...

forgetting my gloves before a lesson, soldiering on, I changed the whip to my other hand after a change of rein and somehow gave myself rope burn on my palm with the whip in the process! I have a history of going brain dead when I'm trying to look smart. So a person who was not too nice to me...

haha thank you! I was a bit worried about how it might be taken cause I know some people in real life that definitely do not have my sense of humour but it seems to have worked out well ;)

I have this conversation with myself every time I have a lesson! haha The more immature part of me does like to think of myself as a lot more slick than I actually am (mainly because I'm finally getting to a level where I get to do all the fun dressage lateral work), but I had a fairly humbling...

totally agree! 'email for price' is another one. GENERALLY when you need to e-mail them for a price it's already not a good sign when it comes to 'affordable' >.<

that horse is amazing! I know experienced school horses who would have lost their MINDS at that. Some people have no bloody patience :P not to mention consideration. Ridiculous driver.

thank you for the advice! I'll keep an eye on them and give them a go :) How do you know if you've overtightened it? That was a concern because with the non elastic ones it's quite easy, no fingers in and can't go up any more? maybe take it down a hole. But the elastic is quite stretchy so is...

Ok, this sounds awful from the title, but it's actually not. I meant the movie 'Fight Club'! I fell in love with Friesians a few years ago after riding almost all of my life, and recently decided to really move towards saving for my own horse, naturally I'm reaching for the stars by aiming for...

this is such a horrendous situation for you. But you did get to comfort her before her time of passing. It doesn't help at all, but she did know that you loved her when she went. You did everything you could for her, and gave her an amazing life.

I've been looking at girths because, well does anyone really need a reason to look at such things? I noticed an increasing amount of 'humane elastic girths'. Does anyone have experience with them? I was looking up a brand that has the elastic in the middle of the girth and they were talking...