. After feeling poop for the last couple of days, it meant I hadn’t ridden for two weeks, and Friday I had a melt down. Saturday morning I woke up and didn’t even know if I was going to ride, but was in my mind to not ride but not say anything until we got there as I knew Naomi was looking forward to it. My OH said ‘Good luck for today and go and make the most of it’ as he left for yet another 12 hour shift, so by the time I got there I was geared up to ride. Initially there

We made it! What? I hear you say? Our first clear round! But you never told us you were doing that? Ummmm..... nope. Just in case we didn’t! We decided that we needed to get out more. Harry loves going out and he loves jumping best. We had arranged to do dressage tomorrow, but due to an error we aren’t, however, we decided we would go and do the New Year Showjumping at Topthorn. I would do the 40cm clear round as it was our first time. An early start, well for me at least, an

So it’s been a while since my last blog as life has been rather hectic with... well life! So it’s been a while since my last blog as life has been rather hectic with... well life! I started my own business with mixed media www.GingeArts.co.uk and my animal art, in particular Horse and Rider commissions, www.TeresaLewisArt.co.uk, which has taken off well. I also contacted Willberry HQ as I wanted to raise extra funds for them, so I did a piece of special art for Willberry, whi

2 weeks after my fall the haematoma on my back is still very large and causing considerable pain so decided to head back to A & E to get it checked it out again. They decided to do a CT scan, this revealed that there was in fact a fracture of the lumbar vertebra 2 and 3, the fracture is minor and should heal on it's own within a couple more weeks as long as I don't do anything to aggravate it. The haematoma although very large is not pressing on any vital organs so they are

Well after the last blog i finally found time to have another riding lesson on the lovely Gomez. Before i go into details just need to mention about how this challenge is bringing people together, people who wouldn’t normally meet, live in another part of the country all because of the Wobbleberry Challenge. The other weekend a group arranged to meet at Belton Horse Trials most of us travelled a distance to get there but on this occasion the sun put in an appearance (you know

This week we actually managed to get over for a lesson as I have my car back! Harry loaded straight on and we got there in good time, tacked him up and ready to mount. One foot in the stirrup, Harry moves, the stool moves, and I am doing some sort of high leg kick with one foot in the stirrup whilst hanging on to him so I dont fall on my bum. I free my foot and drop the mane hair I have in my hand and start again! 🙄 Now we are on! Initially I am just walking him round on bo

My goals this week were to: a) practice my transitions, particularly trot to canter b) do some cross poles c) find my balance with my new WOW saddle. We lunged Harry on monday, and tuesday was lesson day. I love my lessons, but todays particularly because we could finally use the new saddle. I must adnit, its a weird feeling at first and finding your balance because the WOW saddles have such a close contact with the horse, and they have airbags which can be deflated,or air

Despite it snowing on the drive over to the riding school, i was in a group lesson in the arena so it wasn’t going to stop us. We started in the lesson teamed up with the lovely Gomez (all 17.2 of him) all was going well did some trotting poles, transitions etc. Then the instuctor asked who wanted to jump all of us of course it was going well crosspoles, uprights and small course of 5 jumps i nearly took out the instructor he’s a big horse and she thought she was out of the w

i signed up to do the Wobbleberry Challenge last year. Up until the point I signed up, the most I had done was weekly lessons and hacking. I’m not entirely sure I knew what I was actually signing up for, however, I figured it would get me to push myself out of my comfort zone and fulfill my ambition of doing a One Day Event. My steed at the time, Bart, was happy with just plodding out hacking and foing to lessons, but always with a bit of a battle to catch and load him, howe

Its been a long winter and although we are now supposedly in Spring the weather is definitely being very Challenging at the moment. I have been quite quiet for a long time due to not really doing a lot and finding it hard to get motivated. 2017 was an amazing year and we need to get our mojo back to make 2018 even better. With a couple of fantastic Wobbleberry camps in 2017 (run by the very lovely Janice Hawes) under my belt and lots of sessions with great trainers we were ge