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!
It’s been a good news / bad news kinda day. The first bit of good new is I filed my accounts with Companies House and HMRC. The bad news it cost me an extra £70.80 for the privilege.
It used to be done in one go, but in their wisdom, HMRC have decide it now needs to be a two step process and you need to use third party software to do a Corporation Tax return. Which means I have to pay to get the software.
The other good news is that it looks like Buddy doesn’t have an abscess after all. After failing in the poultice stakes once more, my lovely farrier came to poke and prod him and drew a blank. So shoe on and trotted up.
The bad news is that he’s still right. Now we’re suspecting he’s tweaked something. The ground has been so hard and rutted, he could easily have done something. I’ll give him a few more days rest and take it from there…
This quote came up on my memories and it struck a chord today. Especially the ‘no-one said it would be easy’ bit. May is my favourite month, but my goodness, this one has been a bit rocky! So holding onto the ‘they just promised it would be worth it’ bit. I sat in the garden listening to the birds and for the most part it’s true. I am blessed to run my own business (as stressful as it can be). I blessed to have a horse, a dog and two cats (as stressful as it can be). So focusing on that and trusting the rest will work itself out…
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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