THE SMALL THINGS

1556 words today. I’m really pleased about that. It’s been a funny week. I’ve felt really quite happy and suddenly very sad. I’...

I always interested in how one small bad thing can trump many, many good things. (If you let it , says the stern, rational voice in ...

      The day started with ravishing sun and a feeling of spring in the air. I got on the red mare and pretended I was rounding up c...

The last couple of days have been rather fraught and horrid. My sweet brown mare is not well and I’ve been stumping down to the field t...

Yesterday, I said to someone, quite without meaning to: ‘Be careful. I’m still fragile.’             The words flew out, beyond my...

Sunshine and snow this morning. Horses and dogs in dazzling form, enjoying the light after a winter of dreich and rain. Then it ...

Sunshine, sweet ride, a lot of shovelling of shit. Excellent political discussion at breakfast. (The dear Stepfather and I cannot ge...

One great ride, one sunny morning, one restorative breakfast, two acts of kindness, one thousand four hundred words of book, one near...

This morning, I woke up and stretched. I got up, dressed, put on my socks, brushed my hair, and went downstairs. I took the dogs out...

It really was the International Space Station and not the six o’clock to Stavanger. I looked it up. Aberdeen, 5.46pm. Too thrilling...

Out in the clear evening, the owls were hooting and the gloaming was gloaming and the moon was gleaming and the horses were dreaming. ...

Was having a fairly gnarly, cross Monday, grumpily bashing out 1349 words and feeling as if my head was filled with mud. Then the family c...

I was thinking about romantic love and why I don’t believe in romantic love and why I was never any good at romantic love and how ...

The temperature drops and the snow comes in. It’s light gentle snow, although the air is hard and frigid. The dogs find the whole th...

I stand in the kitchen, doing the washing up and listening to quiet voices talking about the life of Rumi and wondering what is the b...

The internet has been on and off for the last few days. Sometimes it flashes a furious amber at me and goes off altogether. Someti...

One ride on one thoroughbred, two walks with two dogs, some fairly blah weather, a quick bit of HorseBack work  and one thousand thr...

Yesterday I came across a file called ‘Gathering information for my NEW PLAN.’ It contained one sentence. That sentence was: ‘L...