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🐴 Bitless
🐴 Bridleless
🐴 LIMA (Least invasive, minimally aversive)
🐴 Hacking on Dartmoor

02/06/2026

Celebrating all that is going on in the bridleless world right now with my crew, past and present! Hallelujah! Change is a coming folks!!!

31/05/2026

I don’t know about you but I admire the people who can spin many plates and keep them spinning. I am definitely not one of those people🫣

Out of the 10 sticks I’m trying to move, I have about 3 plates going at any one time. One will be going super well. That is what I like to call my hyper focus plate. It spins like the clappers and looks impressive all of the time.

Then there’s my second plate- the minor focus. It does ok but it’s always on the verge of doing that end bit where it flips about a bit in slow mo so I’m just about getting it going again before it drops.

The final plate which we will call the failing plate has stopped spinning and is like a limp biscuit sitting on the stick by a corner.

All the other plates are on the floor doing nothing-broken plates.

I’ll attempt to pick up other plates as the failing plate falls or as my hyper focus switches between various seasons of life but there are always broken plates no matter how hard I try.

Over the past weeks I’ve been trying to sort my eating out after my metabolic health as become quite dire. After years of fasting for long periods and feeling pretty good on it, I’m suddenly battling crazy cravings, insulin crashes on everything I eat, weight gain around the middle-perimenopausals, you know exactly what I mean don’t you? I’m having to adjust my whole way of doing food and adjusting is hard.

Eating and remembering to eat is quite hard for me because anxiety feels the same as hunger, thirst feels the same as anger. I can’t determine what is a physical need and what is an emotional need. So all of this has become my hyper focus plate while I try to break habits of a life time. It’s taking all my brain space.

Anyway, I feel like I’m (vaguely) getting into the swing of things now but needless to say the horses have fallen off the stick and onto the floor while I try to sort my life out! They haven’t minded in the slightest but at this time of year, their waistlines have expanded just like mine🫣so it was good to be back out with them this evening.

We had a lovely mooch around the moor as the sun dropped down slowly in the sky. Both seemed happy to be out and it was an all round super peaceful plod.

The only bothersome grumble was some very disrespectful people had left a burn spot behind where they’d obviously been camping. What a way to spoil the view. ‘Leave no trace’ means nothing anymore.

This side of the moor is getting way too ‘peopley’ for my liking!

19/05/2026

This girl is 19 today! She is an absolute joy! I’m so grateful that she came into my life. She makes me smile everyday whether that’s through the joyous way she throws herself around in the field or the way she so carefully shares space with me or through the way she so clearly speaks about her likes and dislikes. Clover you are so special!

14/05/2026

A quiet drink stop and we were joined by a crowd🐴🐴🐴🐴🦄

12/05/2026

We rode to windy cross today🦄

This is an outing I’ve been trying to do for a while. The first try was a fail, second we got a little further and then the third I bottled it as we got to the high moor. As it was this time, I realised we were nearly there last time and had I have walked on a little further, I would have realised it🤣

Husband showed up on our arrival and joined us for a walk and then we headed home with some nice inviting canter tracks that Tom was well up for.

Tom was very wary of the cross!

10/05/2026

A busy week of bluebells, sunsets, bridless views and more.

When I lost Bella and T and life was completely irratic with my poorly kids, I never thought that season would pass. I never thought I’d get to a place with Clover and Tommy where I was not only fully present but also trusting them completely, but here we are! And my son just hit 2yrs of seizure freedom yesterday!

I think I love this little life!

07/05/2026

Thankfully it was ok😊 By the time we got back from our outing, it was recovered and gone.

05/05/2026

She really does listen so well to my voice. She really wanted to go full pelt but we are working on nice calm canters. You can see the moment where she slips into a lovely rocking horse rhythm which I praise her for and then she keeps it going til I ask for a stop. She is such a joy😊😊

04/05/2026

I’ve really wanted to get some pics of the horses in the woods next to our house for some time now because it’s super pretty and one of my favourite places. My son very kindly took the pics😁

Clover has never been here before so I wasn’t sure how she would be but she honestly blew me away. I took her halter off and she stuck to me like glue. If I walked, she walked, if I stopped, she stopped, if I went into the bluebells, she followed.

It was just magical❤️

This is one of my favs! 🐴❤️

03/05/2026

❤️🐴❤️ She was so happy to be out! We headed up the bridlepath and up over the moor with some gorgeous canters.

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