Yesterday evening we needed to get things done at the yard and I wasn't in a riding mood, so Iris' evening work was to come in and do a bit of groundwork. A few weeks ago I had done a short groundwork session that ended up with a bit of liberty stuff and she did really great while she stayed with me, so as I had a herecirm and a camera I asked her to do a ( Read more... )

Those of you who pay close attention to Civil Engineering news ( and I know that is probably most of you ) will be well aware that the Hindhead Tunnel, the longest road tunnel in Britain, has recently opened ( Read more... )

Yesterday morning we were up early and Zorro and I went out for a couple of hours ride around the common. Zorro was pretty good - a little bit keen on taking turns to make a shorter loop rather than a longer one, but so much better than he used to be even still. Or I'm better than I used to be. Either way ( Read more... )

It seems as though sometimes I create the impression that rides on the common near us are all bluebells, wide sandy trails and golden sunlight filtered through oak leaves. So to clarify that, a bit of video from today's ride:


As you will notice, some of those are birch leaves.

With Small Pony still not being well enough for the extended adventures that he loves doing, we've been trying hard to think up interesting things to keep him entertained. On Sunday we brought a gym ball from home ( my old office chair ) to see what he thought of it ( Read more... )

I keep coming out with phrases like "only six weeks left in this decade!" For some reason it rarely cheers people up ( Read more... )

So a year ago I posted a video of Zorro and I ( which has no lost it's music in an argument between Google and Warner ) was a kind of marker for where we were at the time. I figured the way to make that kind of marker useful is to give it points of comparison so on Saturday I got sleepsy_mouse to take some more of our session.

Last year penella22 told me off for doing ( Read more... )

During our ride on Saturday ( "us" being Zorro and I, Small is still feeling a bit ill ) I took a few video clips, which I have now edited together so those of you in far off places can get a feel of riding out on Thursley Common, which is one of the main places we get to ride.

The weekend before last we borrowed a video camera and took a bit of film of one another with our horses in the school. This is a brief edit from mine- it was kind of an average session, not amazing but not terrible either, so it's actually quite representative of where we are right now - starting to get some good vertical flexion, starting to get ( Read more... )