The White Rider

I’ve never understood when people talk about horse riding as a sport before - until this week. It turns out you don’t just sit there while the horse does all the work! I’ve spent this last week on the Isle of Wight, learning about horses (husbandry as well as riding).
I got to meet a blacksmith and watch [...]

Milkcow Blues

I’ve spent the last week working on a dairy farm in Somerset. I’d never done any work with cows before (except briefly when I spent a week on a sheep farm) so it was a new experience for me. What I didn’t realise until arriving there the night before was that the farm was only a [...]