It's been nearly two years since I bought Staro and I have finally decided enough is enough. I can't deal with the emotional rollercoaster of "will-he, won't-he be ok to ride today" every single time I go to work with him. It's just too much ( Read more... )

Having got Staro walking out very nicely down toward the village over the last few days; I decided it was time to see if he'd calmed down and got more willing to listen to me again generally, or if it was just going in a direction he was getting familiar with that was calming him down ( Read more... )

So having decided to drop the agenda for Staro and go back to taking him out for in-hand strolls I have to say this evening he was a much calmer pony. He was a bit daft yesterday, and still gets a bit overexcited when other horses start calling to him - he seems to feel duty-bound to answer them and think about prancing over the top of me in the ( Read more... )

When is enough enough? How do you know when something just isn't what you want ( Read more... )

Staro and I had our first actual outing for about 2 weeks this morning. First the weather was truly foul, then I was horribly ill, then I was still ill AND the weather was foul so we've not done anything since our going-in-and-out-of-the-gate session ( Read more... )

New Start? Here's hoping. Having decided that I really do need to so some sort of actual re-training if I don't want to be stuck in a dead-end job for the rest of my life, all I need to do now is find an appropriate course. Which is easier said than done. Having established that I'm monumentally rubbish at self-driven learning (especially when ( Read more... )