PUBLICATION DAY BLOG, THE SPIRIT OF THE HORSE

That my second book The Spirit of the Horse should be published just after Mothers’ Day was not planned. Yet when I realised this was the case it seemed so right.

My mum died 17 years ago. Sometimes it still seems like 17 months, or even weeks. That urge to pick up the phone to her still seizes me, to share news or amusing Continue Reading

Very recently I moved to live in rural France, leaving a happy life in Wiltshire where I was surrounded by loving friends and neighbours, to follow a dream and set up home in the middle of nowhere with my horses and dogs. Why? Well that will be the topic of another piece, but suffice to say I lost many nights’ sleep before I moved worrying about all sorts of things. At the top of the list was Continue Reading

Ellie came as one of a pair. Two almost identical miniature Shetland ponies – sisters or mother and daughter without a doubt. Distinguishable only by the slightly different hue of their palomino coats and the different lengths of their extravagant manes and tails. The darker fur on Ellie’s nose also formed the shape of a heart around her fuzzy nostrils. When the two of them friend came into my Continue Reading