2010 competition schedule (v2)
So it’s changed already. The first change is I had to drop going to Allenshill this Sunday because the weather is against us; I can’t
Odd thoughts (2)
I’m sure wherever my dad is; he’s looking down on us. He’s not dead, just very condescending.
Tom is *very* bored
So, just before Christmas, Tom’s new ultra-high-fenced turnout (hereafter known as Colditz Turnout) was finished. Yay! And he loved it. He loved it so much
Odd thoughts (1)
I was watching the London Marathon a few years ago and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg.
I’ll have a pee please Bob (and other random sayings)
Some very random words are flashing through my sleepy head but I can’t go to bed because its not even 8.45 yet! A gazillion years
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
I had hoped to publish a very short video clip, via youtube, of the drive up the track from the stables, past the outdoor arena,
Plant life
This weekend we finally got around to clearing the decks, settling down on the couch and watching the latest BBC adaptation of The Day Of
Redundant technology
I love my car. It’s not a flash sports car, it’s a 2-litre turbo diesel, five-door mid-range, executive-type thing. I like the drive; I can
Technological breakthrough
Now that’s a very clever piece of technology!
I can see the sea!
In a moment of decision-making lunacy we went to the seaside yesterday. While we were there we ate, we looked at the views, we were
Shameless podcast plug (well, it is the end of year episode)
I don’t normally do the ‘big linkage thing’ in this way, but the end of year retrospective is more than a little bit special –
Lines on the paper, lines on my face
in case it rings bells, the title is a misquote of the cuttingly clever lyric ‘There were lines on the mirror, lines on her face’
Turnout, weather and lunch
Tom’s first day of turnout after more than three weeks of ‘confinement’; things were fraught! By 7am we were schooling in the indoor arena. An
Urging gently
I have the urge to write – creatively – but I’m not sure I have the patience to do it properly at the moment and
Looking forward to it!
The 2010 Eventing Season is really close – given that the Entry date for competitions are so far in advance of each actual One Day
Honey and murder for your ears
The Christmas Eve show brings our listeners five totally excellent tracks, much wide-ranging and very varied conversation that includes: The Cheese Game taking an unusual
Don’t look back in anger
It’s that time of the year when my mind slips itself off the lead and bounds along the snow-covered, hedgerow-lined fields of memories, like a
Meet the family
Just don’t ask why I seem to assume such a weird voice when I talk to them…
Twitter Etiquette – my 2010 will be…
… slightly different… I love Twitter. No, really. I am a massive fan of the microblogging service. I like the brevity of 140 characters. I
Dumped on my arse (sortov)
Yeah, it’s time for an equine catch-up… Vin… Vin’s reported lameness is puzzling. I put him on two sachets of ‘Bute for the first feed,
Time for bed, said the Zeb cat
OK, when I start talking hippie-speak it’s definitely past my bedtime. I have been working my way through a stack of programme/project documentation for the
Indie goodness, straight to your ears!
This week’s podcast treads new ground, and it’s worth listening to for that alone! Four guests join the show; talented indie-foursome inLight come in to
It’s Thursday but it feels like
… Friday. I don’t know why. It just seems to have been a six day week already, and it’s not even F-F-F-Friday yet. I had
The antidote to X-Factor
Here is 8m 27s of better quality entertainment than two nights of ITV gave us on Saturday and Sunday: Thanks to Matt Edmondson
How green is my valley?
I’m going to begin with the blindingly obvious statement: I am not an environmental scientist. What I know about global warming climate change I get
Trying to be clever with audio. Probably failing
I have to create a sound-bed (a piece of backing music) for a scripted narration. The narration hasn’t been recorded yet, but reading through the
Peaches Geldoff – she speaks!
Do you remember that classic moment of history when, during one of the earliest airings of the new technology that delivered ‘talking movies’ to the
A time-wasting conversation
Get bloody going! I can’t. Why not? I’ve got a bone in my leg. And look at my arm. See? It does that when I
Offensively excellent!
There are now 44 minutes of Old Biddie-offending musical podcast fun roaming the internet. This week we include these talkie bits: * The Cheese Game,
Easing that stiffness
I went to the osteopath yesterday morning, just for a check-up. It’s been about ten years since I last had such a check. At the
Pushing some boundaries
So, this weekend’s podcast has been recorded and released and is now, even as you read these words, roaming around the internet offending old biddies
Does anyone else ever feel like this?
Hi. It’s me. Bren. And no, I haven’t been to the bank yet. But I will go, honest. I’ve got stuff to do. T-Shirts that
Quick equine update
Today is the last day of Tom’s antibiotics. Hooray! I hate giving injections to horses, their skin is so thick and they’re so heavily muscled
Off site parking at Heathrow? A cautionary tale
It is said that there is nothing like a personal recommendation and this, my friends, is nothing like a personal recommendation… You know how it
Feet back on the ground
It seems as though we’ve barely had time to breathe since the middle of last week. There was the disappointing New Moon midnight viewing, the
What would Littlejohn do?
That I’m flying to Munich in just a few hours time is purely coincidental. Thanks to Blonde for educating me about this work of Daily
Busy spell
I have to be in west London for an 09.00 meeting tomorrow (Thursday). Should be back at the yard by mid-afternoon for equine duties. By
Boing, Boing!
So we didn’t go to the hunter trial, the amount of rain we’ve had in the last four days made the going too soft for
I knew Sting was a twat!
Craig Murray puts some facts and asks some very interesting questions
Blowin’ in the wind
I swear the noise that woke me at 03.45 sounded exactly like a cat being blown off the roof… The weather is a factor in
Even television history repeats itself
I accidentally stumbled on this quote last night: ‘[This act] does not deserve to still be on stage. Their continued presence in the competition is
What the…?
As I’m WIDE AWAKE at 03.15 for the second morning on the trot, and I’m fast losing the enthusiasm for editing audio at this time
Competition results
As promised, the winners of the T-Shirt giveaway (in order of close proximity to the target of blog visitors up until 22.00 last night) are:
Social Networking issues (of a minor kind) and Pink Floyd
Once upon a time I could hide certain bits of information that I really didn’t want promoted. I was content, like, I suspect, many other
Competition time!
The three people to guess the closest to the number of visits that this blog has had today (from 00.01 GMT – 22.00 GMT) will
Music stuff and a weather report
Other (non equine) things going on hereabouts: I’ve just finished writing a review of ‘Devotion Implosion’, an album by Gliss. I have to write a