Brightening up your winter

[Doodlesmum]

So I’m looking for ideas (preferably cheap ones after a recent humungous vets bill), for horse related activities/book/films/anything really to brighten up the drudgery that is winter.

Anyone got any tips/ideas/recommendations for jollying up these dark days?

 

[Sanversera]

Be kind to yourself.give your horse time off. Spend time grooming, listening him eating his hay. Just be. Find a good book, make a hot chocolate and enjoy.keep warm.

 

[SaddlePsych'D]

I am really enjoying a few of horsey vlogs on YouTube who usually have a video (or sometimes two) out each week: Simon Grieve Eventing, ELS Eventing, and (HHOs own!) The Eventing Journey. They help me get my horsey fix between my weekly lessons and I like snuggling up under a blanket to watch them on these dark winter evenings. I'm learning to crochet too and getting good enough that I can now do both at the same time

 

[PurpleSpots]

The Silver Brumby books by Elyne Mitchell. I've not read them for donkeys years, but love them.

Anything to reconnect us to the world we live in which reminds us that we should breathe with the planet in the way that it lives, adapting to its natural challenges, rather than feeling miffed it's not providing us with our ideals of weather each day. As a species we're not so good at that I think!

 

[Exasperated]

The Silver Brumby books by Elyne Mitchell. I've not read them for donkeys years, but love them.

Anything to reconnect us to the world we live in which reminds us that we should breathe with the planet in the way that it lives, adapting to its natural challenges, rather than feeling miffed it's not providing us with our ideals of weather each day. As a species we're not so good at that I think!

Mary O’Hara’s classic My Friend Flicka, Thunderhead and Green Grass of Wyoming saga, with her fantastic illustrations;
Or very recent: ‘John Whittaker the Legend’, by Sarah Peacocke, 2024.