Catch-up!
The weather has finally broken. So it was Boots and Saddles, and off to begin again, the fittening of both horses. It’s quite shocking what three weeks standing in a field, will do. Despite the previous months of rain, now that we have an Easy wind, the ground will soon dry. Just eight miles, dogs…
Notes on a Miserable Month.
The weather has been decidedly crap! For winter, it’s been mild wet and windy, the fields are a mess, and everything is just mud forever. Then we get this! Overnight it froze, -10c and four days later it thawed. Then it froze again, and now we’ve got snow again. Never know what it’s gonna do!…
Reflection
Winter is here. Well, it’s supposed to be here, but our average temperature is above the normal. It has rained a lot, in fact as I write, it is a deluge. Long gone are the pleasant days and evenings of our summer. I still ride out, trying to dodge the showers, and soft ground. It’s…
Thankful.
Been a while, anyway it’s just a catch up. Taken while filming in Scotland, way back in 2019. Love that photo.
Bloody Bush
After a quiet month, since my last sojourn up Helvellyn, I have done nothing. It has rained relentlessly, strong winds and alternating mild and cold. However, yesterday, I was out!….Friends asked me to ride with them across the English Scottish Border at a place called, Bloody Bush! Bloody Bush!…So named after a violent skirmish between…
Friday 16th September 2022…… Helvellyn.
3111 feet high, it commands a central position in the Lake District, a National Park in the UK. Centuries ago, the Packhorse Routes criss crossed these mountains, carrying Salt, Lead, Graphite and many other useful products to places far and wide, via the sea ports on the west coast of Britain. One such route crossed…
End of a Ride.
Casey had his first Trail Ride today, his company was Toby. Just a short 9 miles, Casey did well. Toby was just Toby, calm and tranquil.
Long Live The King!
I write this with a heavy heart, Her Majesty the Queen, Elizabeth 2nd has passed away . No doubt everyone will have some thoughts on the matter but for me? I am a Veteran, I served during a time of turbulence, terrorism and aggressors, so nothing has changed, except the names and dates. Elizabeth was…
The Cost.
I hear it all the time from folks, saying how?….”I can’t afford a horse, it’s so expensive!” I tend to be of the view, that it’s only as expensive as you want it to be, and what you want. You could just buy a nag, a horse that will do most things, but in other…
Sunset on Ullswater
A late afternoon ride with friends turned into a late home ride in the dark. We waited until the last rays of the sun sank behind Blencathra, then we dawdled away back to Scales Farm. A beautiful evening marred by absolutely nothing. Even the rising of the Blood Moon, was extraordinary, it was a calm…
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