Welcome to blog! I started it in 2020 to chart my recovery from breaking my ankle (hence the name). I guess no-one saw a global pandemic coming. It's turned into a place where I can talk about the things happening in my life, my horse and my cats. Enjoy!
Bert got experience snow for the first time today. I honestly wasn’t expecting quite so much of it either!!
Definitely not how I’d planned my Saturday. I had planned to take Buddy for a lesson at WHW. Given there was a yellow warning in place for snow, ice and freezing temperatures, the decision was made to cancel the clinic. Gutted but I wasn’t totally sure I could get off the driveway, let alone off the yard.
That meant a lot of scrambling sorting out the logistics and doing our best to make sure tomorrow’s clinic can go ahead. There are so many moving parts to putting training like this. Not sure people realise the hours that go into it.
We do it cause we love our riding club. Even if that means there are times we have to disappoint people. It’s been a bit fraught at times today.
Watching Bert’s delight on the snow made me laugh. Safe to say he loved it. He was tearing round the garden. He also seemed to be bring a lot of it into the conservatory!
Buddy was rather unimpressed when I did get to the yard. I took it slowly as it was rather slippery on the roads. Seems we have more than most. Fingers crossed the white stuff goes soon…
So 2020 was going to be my year. The year I got my life sorted after being served redundancy notice from my job in November 2019. The year I ticked off more things from my horsey bucket list. The year I got my mental health back under control and reduced stress in my life.
I had a plan. And it was a good one. Then the plan changed dramatically on 2 January. I came off my horse at speed and broke my ankle. Badly. Like all good equestrians, I got back on and rode back to the yard, sorted Buddy out and then drove myself to A&E. That’s where this journey really began...
I was sent home from A&E and told to crack on, only to receive a phone call later to say they’d missed a fracture (and a rather serious one at that). Whoops! So fracture clinic on 3 January, surgery on 5 January and home to recover.
I started this blog as a way to chart my recover back to the saddle. As I cleared clinics and competitions out of my diary and wondered what the next few months would bring, it's been a safe space for me to say how I'm feeling.
The new plan was to get a new job, to keep Buddy is kept ticking over and recover from my injury. Another good plan! I didn't expect a global pandemic, lockdown and all that happened in 2020.
This blog has changed over time but it's continued to be my safe space to share the things going on in my life, with Buddy and the cats. Enjoy!
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