"How could a language have the same word for 'now' and 'gift'?"

[glenatron]

I have been up to a broad selection of things lately, I shall endeavour to share some with you:

Last weekend we spent four days recording some new songs for the next release from The Patient Wild. In fact they will probably go onto a CD with the existing tracks ( people at gigs are often asking whether we have a CD to sell ) and we will endeavour

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[glenatron]

You can hear the stuff we have recorded so far over on Soundcloud.

There aren't many people in this country who are into riding western and a lot of the ones who are aren't into the same type of riding that I do ( which is probably best known by association with people like Ray Hunt and Buck Brannaman ) which is all about feel and timing and helping the horse to feel confident and relaxed in their work. Because I did my core learning on western horses I'm happiest in a western saddle, but I will have to get a set of regular tack if we're going to be doing dressage, which I think we will. I think all riding is the same really, but I want to be riding my horse's mind when I can, so I ride on a fairly loose rein mostly. I think until she came to stay with us at the start of the summer she had always been ridden very conventionally.

I am lucky in that I have a very marketable set of skills combined with enough experience that I can generally pick up work reasonably easily. The worst case is that I have to either undersell myself or commute to London. If it came to choosing between those I would be quite challenged...