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Equine Empowerment – Jessica Gonzalez

Equine Empowerment – Jessica Gonzalez

Book Review – Equine Empowerment – a guide to positive reinforcement training by Jessica Gonzalez. For anyone who has encountered Jessica, it is clear that she is passionate about horses, and this is reinforced throughout every page of her book, which sets out to help people 

Are you setting up for success or setting up for failure?

Are you setting up for success or setting up for failure?

Recently I had to create a new online account, I chose my username and password and clicked submit. I then received an error message saying that my password did not comply with their requirements. I was used to making passwords out of uppercase and lowercase 

Strictly Maverick

Strictly Maverick

I was asked the other day, what film I had seen the most times, after a short pause to consider I replied ‘Strictly Ballroom’. From the look on their face I think they expected me to say something very clever, arty, quirky, cult or at 

Thunderhooves and the Ghost Train

Thunderhooves and the Ghost Train

I have always wanted to write fiction and Thunderhooves is a great subject. Thunderhooves and the Ghost Train is not where the story begins but I could not pass up the challenge of writing a ghost story. Darkness fell on Windy Acres as Merry and 

Why I will never buy another horse

Why I will never buy another horse

For my 11th birthday I was given a dog, I hadn’t asked for a dog, I had asked for a pony! A pony had been on every Birthday and Christmas list for as long as I could remember, so I wasn’t expected one and was 

The Wasted Horse

The Wasted Horse

How many times have we seen these adverts! ‘Horse wasted with current owner’ or ‘Horse needs to fill its potential’ or ‘Horse too good to be a field ornament’? Well here’s the thing, these horses have no agenda to be top competition horses, or to