Boulty
Well-Known Member
If there's someone up the road with a school I'd definitely be putting a polite note through the door (you'd likely have to pay in one way or another of course) they may say no but if you don't ask you don't get. Do they have children with ponies, if so I wonder if they would like a friend to ride with...
I hire the arena at the livery yard down the road about once a week after I randomly came across one of their liveries on a Highland pony group I'm in & she put me in touch with their YM.
Also as long as it's not sopping wet, deep & muddy depends on if you're lucky with drainage I guess) there's a lot you can do in walk either inhand or ridden with a few poles, cones, maybe a hula hoop, some tarpaulin etc. (You can get some really good freestanding battery lights these days) Ditto if your yard has a decent area of hardstanding (I do groundwork on an area of roadplanings a few times a week in winter when field too wet to do anything)
I hire the arena at the livery yard down the road about once a week after I randomly came across one of their liveries on a Highland pony group I'm in & she put me in touch with their YM.
Also as long as it's not sopping wet, deep & muddy depends on if you're lucky with drainage I guess) there's a lot you can do in walk either inhand or ridden with a few poles, cones, maybe a hula hoop, some tarpaulin etc. (You can get some really good freestanding battery lights these days) Ditto if your yard has a decent area of hardstanding (I do groundwork on an area of roadplanings a few times a week in winter when field too wet to do anything)