The way to heaven is on horseback

Hiya Guys,  This is just a quick post from me as it's 1am and I am finally starting to feel tired. I don't know whether I  ever told you that I had got to do some referral work because I had missed my deadline for one of my modules and that if I didn't pass this module I wouldn't be able to keep on doing my course? Well if I didn't I have done now. The deadline for the referral work was monday the 16th of June. However I have decided that I was going to get it handed all in today so that I can just enjoy my weekend with my mum and also seeing jack. So I wouldn't have to be worrying about whether or not I had got it finished. Well I've just uploaded my final piece of coursework, after checking it for plagiarism and coming back with a score of 1% on one and 3% on the other. I then also had a power point to upload and now all I can do is sit around and wait for my uni results to come in. I've emailed the tutor in control of this module to let him know ...

Sorry guys it's safe to say that I have been slacking for the past few days. Things have just been really busy so I will start with Last monday and go through til today (Tuesday). Last Monday was pony club evening. It was also a badge evening. Which was really exciting as we haven't done a badge in a while. This time it was the perfect paddock badge that we had to do.We had to be able to set a 'paddock' up in the school using poles to show where the fences would be. Jumping blocks represented the shelter, hay net obviously was hey and the water bucket was water. We also had to answer questions saying what shouldn't be in the field, what should be, if there's three horses in the field how many piles of hay should there be. Then we had to do the more obvious question which was list a load of poisonous plants.  Tuesday I spent the day with George. We didn't do much. I had tried to go with my mum to visit Dean and Sue in hospital but when we tried to go the...

Hiya Guys,  I can't say that I've really done much today other than finding myself sleeping lots. After the past week being quite stressful as well as the few weeks before leading up to the court date it's safe to say I've hit my barrier where all I really want to do is sleep. The problem is though that I am sleeping during the day and then it gets to 11pm roughly and I find myself wide awake and on my laptop looking for something to do that is going to make me feel sleepy. I've tried reading a book and I start to feel really sleepy but then the minute that I turn the light off and put the book down, bang, I'm wide awake again.  As I've not really done a lot I thought that I would take this opportunity to post some pictures up from the last time that I jumped Gatsby (also the first time I fell off him). Most of these pictures were taken by the boyfriend but some were also taken by my amazing mum. So here you go guys. :)  Really do love this pic...

hey y'all.  Today has been a fairly uneventful day but its also been a really good day. I've been able to catch up on some sleep as well as having some just me time. I got woken up this morning by my phone ringing, at first I just wanted to roll over and not look at it but then I realised that it could be Jack so that soon kicked my ass in to gear to answer the phone. It's a good job I did as well because it was Jack that was ringing me. I miss him like mad so being able to talk to him was great and he says he's going to try and ring me tomorrow.  Then when I got off the phone with him I bought the post in to my mum, as only the day before  I had got something in the post from him at his mums address I wasn't expecting a letter in the post from him today so that was a pleasant surprise. I'm definitely going to have to keep a better look out on the post because I can imagine that I'm going to be hearing from him lots.  After this my mum went in t...

So the other day I saw someone who did a post like this and thought why not, I might as well do one, even if I can't afford it I can still day dream, right?  My dream barn would be open and spacious, I love the wood look and how natural it appears to be but can also look really fancy/sophisticated. I also like the idea of the stables being in a U shape with doors and windows facing inwards so all the horses can see each other. I love the stable image above, I love how lit up they are the wooden look to them and the way the stable doors are. I'd also like it so that some of the stables had runs going out the back so that the horse could choose whether to be inside or outside. I also really like how the bottom of the stable walls are a stone wall.  If the stalls were inside I'd love them to look like this, I again love the wood look but I also really like how open everything is. I like how everyone can see everything and how it has the chance for the horses...

1)The Intro Horse.  We each came into horses in our own way, but it was always with a horse leading us. This might have been a friend's first pony or perhaps it was a draft horse on a farm that you visited once. It might have been a real-life meeting, or an imaginary one. I've always liked horses ever since I was little, I can't even imagine what the first horse that made me want to ride was because the love was always there. However here are a couple the first was a horse that I nick named 'Holly' she lived at the back of one of the pubs that we used to go in as a kid and I loved wandering off to go and stroke her and watch her in the field. However as I kid I also loved StarLite out of Rainbow Brite I used to read the book all the time, and of course I loved Black Beauty.  2) The Experimental Horse Once you had crossed the line between 'Darn. they're big!' and 'Wow, Can  I try that?' you found yourself face to face with the h...

Gatsby is such a fantastic horse! We had a really good ride today even though it was raining, haling, sleeting and almost snowing! The weather was awful but Gatsby made getting wet worth every single minute! I groomed and tacked him up and made sure he was all comfy, and then got on when I first got on I couldn't decide whether I wanted to do Pole work or canter work so Fiona said why not do both we could canter and do pole work, I got really excited. The exercise that I did was super fun and something that Gatsby and I really took to. What we had to do was Trot over three trotting poles making sure he was in an outline and forward then as soon as we were over the last pole we had to go in to canter doing a 20metre circle then just before we got back to the trotting poles we had to transition to trot. Now the last part would be the fun part with Gatsby because once he gets going doing pole work he doesn't want to stop doing pole work and the same with his canter work. So Fiona...

YES! We have finally got some sunshine here and the UK the horses were able to have there rugs off today and go outside without them and they LOVED it. Fussy and Hazel even got to stay out for longer than they normally would do! I'm loving it the evenings are getting longer, the heat is getting warmer meaning that Pony Club in the evenings is going to be son fun, it'd be fun in the cold to though!  Today I was riding Gatsby and a guy had already used him earlier in the day for a lesson, so he wasn't too muddy this meant that I got more time and was able to play with his tail and try plaiting it as I've never done it before properly on my own without anybodies help normally it was my mums! So today while Fiona and Elaine were doing other jobs and Jaimie-Leigh I did some work with Gatsby on plaiting and turned out with quite a nice cute plait it was messy at the top but he's had his tail pulled (think that's the right word) so at the top there's loads of ...

Today was the first time riding since we have had all the bad snow and also this month marks a year of me and Gatsby, time sure does seem to fly by without you even realising it! I got there and he kept putting his head out as if to say 'AMBER HURRY UP AND COME SEEE ME!!!' it was really funny. I then spent half an hour grooming him and tacking him up as he was being a muddy pony! I think he roles on purpose when he knows I'm coming the little Monkey.  Then when I got in I got on and Fiona asked me what I wanted to work on and I said Canter work with Gatsby, we decided that the best way was going to be for me to set myself a small goal, to do this, we decided that I would just canter half a circle. We warmed up walking on a long rein allowing him to stretch as he hadn't been rode that much this week, and he really wanted to stretch. We then changed rein making sure to work evenly on both reins as Gatsby's better side is his right rein. After doing this I spent s...

Okay so today i though i would tell you more about the horse thats made me who I am, he's a piebald cob that goes by the name of Jake, or Jakey Boo, or various different names depending on whether he behaves or not that more times than not he doesn't do. He's about 14 years old maybe older than that and thinks that hes a 3 year old that gets him to have as much fun as he really wants too. To most people he might not look like much but to me he is the best horse in the world. He might be over weight and he might be lame on and off but to me he is magical, he's a horse that bought my riding on to where it is now, and I will always love him no matter what. Things Jake loves, carrots, food of any kind, definitely polo's, lots of attention although iif you overcrowd him he is not going to be happy. What doesn't he like? WORK, having his hoofs picked, work again and being away from his mates, yes he might be a big baby but thats why i love him. I've r...