Recent content by smanf

I was really chuffed the OH captured this little gem of epic rider fail. For the record, I managed to stay on (and thankfully kept my teeth!!).

Here's my 2pence on horse grief. I don't like to use the term 'get over it', I prefer 'learning to live with it'. To 'get over it' to me suggests that one would need to forget to a certain degree. I never want to forget my boy (I got him when I was ten, and had him twenty years). I also wanted...

So chuffed having just bought from a friend a 7.5t Leyland Roadrunner, even considering renting my flat out and moving into it :p! Anyway, it is a 1988 and so doesn't have any seatbelts. Of course Mum is now eating her heart out at the thought of us going head first through the windscreen. I...

Oh, just normal then lol!

Oww, thanks :)

Never paid it a lot of thought, but having just realised that my horse's mum is called 'Ginger Annie', one might assume she is chestnut. His sire is Ros Rebel (dapple grey ID). Could the chestnut colour account for this?.....and is he grey? Or roan as his passport states?? (Sorry, Friday...

My yard (although sadly I am leaving) farm stables at upper ridgeway farm in thursley, Surrey. great people, lovely place and great hacking, look them up :) they run assisted DIY, part and full...

I have recently put an end to my same situation, it took me 8 months to get my heart to see things from my head's point of view (which probably knew all along that my horse wasn't right for me). It wasn't easy, and the prospect of letting my boy, who was supposed to be my next forever horse go...

Sorry, but are you sure? I used to work for petplan, and the veteran policy never covered illness. Things may have changed, but I would be very surprised in view of the fact that you are paying £13 a month, as this was always the premium for accidental cover only...

And yes, a lorry would hopefully be factored in at some point...

I think the turnout is pretty much the same with regards to size (and if anything he would probably get longer turnout at the nearer yard, as at the far away yard, they start bringing in at 3.30). Can't comment on the quality of the paddocks at the far away place as I haven't seen it in winter...

I will try and keep this short, and I completely understand if no one replies to this horrendously boring thread, but I need to talk to someone! Anyway, Option 1; Leave my horse where he is stabled currently (34 miles away from where I live), down in the country where the hacking...

Oh my goodness, that is terrible, my heart breaks for you x

Don't feel down or concerned about being upset, it is a tribute to your girl, she deserves it. I always enjoyed a good old cry, it gave me comfort in as much that it meant that my boy still mattered and that he was still there and not forgotten. I even used to worry at the prospect of not...

As some reassurance, I have recently done exactly what you are talking about. I lost my boy of twenty years a year ago this month (can't believe it is that long already). Two months after his death (and having had a share in a horse for a bit that didn't really work as I have always had my...