I have to show you this. What a lovely surprise for my recent birthday. It is never easy to buy things for older people but this is so nice and will look lovely in my tack room. I don't think I am allowed to say where it came from on the forum, but if anyone wants to know I can tell them via PM
and state of back, hips and knees, I still ride and pre plan the level of pain relief based on mileage covered ! I down graded to a nice cob 5 years ago who is a wide as she is tall. Every time I dismount back onto the mounting block of course, can't be doing with the drop anymore regardless that the cob is only 15.2, I have to remind myself that riding is a pleasure and an honour regardless of the pain levels . Then I stagger down the steps of the block whilst the cob heads for the adjacent raspberry bush.