Ahhhh the joys of midlife. In recent years I’ve rediscovered my love of netball which was my sport of choice during my early teens. Alas it would appear that it’s possible to injure oneself even more easily playing netball than riding horses. Albeit more “limb based” than life threatening but nonetheless I find myself on the bench again, for the third time in 2 years. Whilst I patiently await MRI results on my right knee and diligently complete physio, I am pondering a pivot (sadly...

A Disco rider from Kent reached out to me a few weeks ago to see if we could organise a disco session for her birthday. A wonderful idea which I was excited to create for her. We hired our local arena and she invited 5 of her horsey pals to join her. We had such a blast! I have been working with my coaching contemporaries in different regions of the UK to dream up our themes for 2026. The birthday brief from Helen was "anything 80s" which fitted nicely with a song I kept picking for my walk...

I'm sitting in a coffee shop on supposedly the saddest day, BLUE Monday. But then, I rewatched a video one of our coaches sent me - some footage of her first Disco of the year in Angus, Scotland. I've edited a small clip of the start of the routine because it made me chuckle. https://youtu.be/eknAgpo91js?si=Lf0uAwY-Bh4kYElK If you've watched the music video for Queen's "I Want To Break Free" you will understand why Coach Shelagh is strutting across the arena with a hand held hoover....