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Laurel View on Lockdown #Log 11
Sunday, June 21st, 2020Far from normality but getting marginally closer! This week we welcomed back some of our more advanced riders. It was a delight to be able to get some of you lovely folks back into the saddle. Obviously it had been a rather long time since many of you had sat on a horse, meaning nerves […]
Laurel View on Lockdown #Log 10
Sunday, June 14th, 202010 weeks of my waffle later (congratulations if you have stuck around despite my deteriorating writing ability) and we are finally starting to see some hope at the end of the tunnel! We have had a pretty hectic week here at Laurel View as entries closed for our Virtual Charity Dressage, we announced that some […]
Laurel View on Lockdown #Log 9
Sunday, June 7th, 2020My sincerest apologies, I am yet again starting this week’s blog by mentioning the weather! But I think we can all agree with my dearest darling sister’s words “God really put the weather on shuffle this week!” As the weather this week has been arguably more random than my Spotify playlist switching from Beyoncé to […]
Virtual Charity Dressage (24.5-*9.6)
Saturday, June 6th, 2020***Entry deadline extension*** Because of the gross weather we have decided to give you all an extra 48 hours to complete and send in your entries Entries now close at 1pm on Tuesday 9th June Click for all the necessary details in the link just below 🙂 Virtual Charity Dressage […]
Laurel View on Lockdown #Log 8
Sunday, May 31st, 2020Well folks, can you believe it, that is May away! It has been another fabulously sunny week to exercise all our horses outdoors, with some getting to go for a refreshing canter across the field. Jiggling Johnny is slowly regaining his fitness levels however, it remains no surprise that after some brief canter work whilst […]
Laurel View on Lockdown #Log 7
Sunday, May 24th, 2020As Lockdown currently continues at Laurel View until the appropriate official bodies give us the all clear to restart safely, we decided to reimagine our annual charity dressage competition, deciding that this year we would run it virtually. We know how many of you are missing all your equine friends at the yard or have […]
Laurel View on Lockdown #Log 6
Sunday, May 17th, 2020Poo, poo, and more poo! This week as I stood in a field surrounded by, you guessed it, poo, I found myself weirdly excited by the idea of the new shiny fork I was holding in my hand! The consequence of having lots of horses in a field (that each poo an average of 8 […]
Laurel View on Lockdown #Log 5
Sunday, May 10th, 2020It appears my journey of self-discovery is set to continue as “normal” freedom is still some way off. And by journey of self-discovery, I mean, coming to terms with the fact I am an overly ambitious individual with an unfortunate trait of excessive procrastination. To help you understand what I mean, I initially had big […]
Laurel View on Lockdown #Log 4
Sunday, May 3rd, 2020It’s May! Is it just me, or does time still fly whilst simultaneously feeling as if it is moving at a snail’s pace? I suppose some sense of normality returned this week, in that if you skipped the regular news and just watched the weather forecast instead, we saw the return of Northern Irelands typical […]
Laurel View on Lockdown #Log 3
Sunday, April 26th, 2020Week five of isolation complete? Or at least I think it’s been five weeks, days of the week no longer exist for me. It’s been another sublimely sunny week. As most Northern Irish people do, we spend most of the year praying for some decent weather, and in typically NI weather fashion it waits until […]
