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“Of course it’s in your head, why on earth should that mean it’s not real?!”

By Sue Palmer on April 22, 2021

This is a subject close to my heart at the moment, as instinct and emotion battles with common sense in my life. I have always believed that you make your own luck, and I realise now how incredibly lucky I have been that pretty much everything has gone my way, even if at the time […]

One Sixth Saddles

By Sue Palmer on April 21, 2021

Today’s guest blog is by Val Evans from One Sixth Saddles Toys… everyone played with them as kids, everyone had a favourite toy. When I saw my favourite Marx toy horse – some 40 years after I last played with him – it brought back so many memories! I was blown away by the amazingly realistic […]

How To Be Happier: Chapter 8

By Sue Palmer on April 20, 2021

Planning “Mother gave me support with one of her terse asides: ‘That’s what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you’ve got .I’ve told you many times, can’t do is like don’t care. Neither of them have a home.’” Maya Angelou, in “I Know Why The Caged […]

A bottle of perseverance

By Sue Palmer on April 19, 2021

A bottle of perseverance “Would you like a drink? It’s my own special brew, I call it ‘Perseverance’.” In a book I was listening to recently, there was mention of someone giving a friend a bottle of green liquid, which was labelled ‘Enthusiasm’. Thinking about this made me smile. Last night, my son was trying […]

18.4.2021 What is an orthopaedic surgeon?

By Sue Palmer on April 19, 2021

Webinar with Warren Schofield MRCVS As a Chartered Physiotherapist, I specialise in working with the musculoskeletal system, and it fascinates me. I find it incredible that everything is attached to everything else through the fascia, a thin, cling film like tissue that runs throughout the body. It’s amazing that our bones give our bodies such […]

How To Be Happier: Chapter 7

By Sue Palmer on April 17, 2021

Learning “To teach is to touch a life forever.” Anonymous I had this quote pinned on my cork board when I was a teenager, and I still have the same one, now stuck on my freezer with a fridge magnet. I love learning. I am an eternal student. Not that I like exams. But I […]

Simplicity Health and Weight Loss

By Sue Palmer on April 16, 2021

Stress, sleep and weight loss A guest blog from weight loss consultant Lorraine Harris, @simplicityhealthandweightloss www.simplicityhealthandweightloss.com High levels of stress can disrupt our sleep patterns. This can lead to cravings for high energy foods, those which are high sugar / fat / carbohydrate. This becomes a vicious cycle. When stress levels are high, we are […]

The Effect of a Physiotherapy Intervention on Thoracolumbar Posture in Horses

By Sue Palmer on April 15, 2021

This is the title of a peer reviewed study published in the journal Animals in October 2020. The authors are Amy Shakeshaft and Gillian Tabor. The link to the full article is below, it is open access which means it’s free for anyone to read. Amy and Gillian looked at whether baited stretches changed the […]

How To Be Happier, Chapter 6

By Sue Palmer on April 14, 2021

Connection “A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Adams When I say ‘connection’, I’m talking about connection on many different levels. There’s the connection between friends and family that’s familiar to many of us. But how about other ‘connections’? Your connection to your animals, or to your home, or […]

Hilary and Max: February

By Sue Palmer on April 13, 2021

A Guest Blog from Hilary Moses This month allowed Max and I to get back into the school and to hopefully start some real work. The hacking time was building up and we were doing longer distances with all the trotting. My vet had told me to avoid hills and muddy paths and that’s quite […]

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