"After getting home from the National Championships it was time to get some new ideas set in motion while Freddie had a few well earned weeks off. I have decided to join the 21st Century and set up a website about our yard to advertise coaching and livery. For someone who is useless on the computer I screamed for help and have found a designer to do the hard work for me..though I think he wishes I had never found him as I am so difficult to please!?! I'm so glad sitting in front of a computer screen is not my full time job...I have never found so many excuses to have a tea-break! The new website will be revealed soon...

Freddie started back into work last week. As he has had a few weeks off he started with a few days of gymnastic stretching simply to loosen him off and get his muscles open and ready to start full work. I have now started to gradually build what I am asking back up, touching on easy lateral work, transitions and encouraging collection. This is all directed towards my next 'training camp' with Carl in early November. I have been given the go ahead to play around with flying changes, pirouettes, piaffe and passage! The fun begins!!!

To help fund my training this winter I have just spent a couple of days teaching in York and I head to Inverness and Aberdeen this weekend. I really enjoy the clinic days, I see such a variety of types and standards from all different disciplines..it really gets my mind working!

As an added bonus I had a lovely surprise yesterday when I received a letter saying I had been nominated for the Pat Smallwood Training Award, which I will collect at the BHS National Coaching Conference in November. This will be a big help to further my own training.