I have been writing for all of my life; ever since I could hold a pen, I have used that pen to record my misadventures and process my feelings. I have had a few articles published over the years. I won a couple of prizes that led to print, and…

“A good horse is never a bad colour” There are many phrases threading through the English language handed down from the old days when horses were the main form of transport and we humans owed them our livelihoods and oftentimes our lives. This blog has mostly been pre-occupied with “No Foot, No Horse” but the BLM movement has dramatically leapt to the…

What is your Covid Status? As I sit in my office, in the hospital, on a glorious Bank Holiday Monday, having just done a very surgical style ward round of the general medical patients, who are cohorted on what should be our bustling colorectal surgery ward, everyone is talking about…

1- The average person has 12–60k thoughts/day. 2- 80% of those are negative. 3- 95% are exactly the same as the day before. 4- 85% of what we worry about never happens. The National Science Foundation and Cornell University in the US: For those of you who have followed Tim…

“ There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.” I have been reading Eckart Tolle’s The Power of Now. I have to say…

You will have heard this before- the magic is in the transition. Or to put it simply- the magic can only occur in the spaces in between….things…… This is especially true in music; a melody is only truly heard because there is silence between the notes. My main instrument has…

Don’t feed the trolls. Or to paraphrase; don’t waste your energy worrying about what the bad guys are doing, because, as we all know, energy follows thought. I have been on a fairly steep learning curve this year in various ways, and one of my newly acquired and necessary skills…

Or, as I was challenged to today, just look at those four little words on their own and say them out loud…. I deserve to be… or simply I deserve to be me How does that make you feel? …

Every now and then I come across a new horsey friend who doesn’t know and understand why I am such a keen advocate for keeping ridden horses barefoot. At these times, I find myself re-telling the story that has got me and my horses to this point, and I think…