The Free Spirit Pony Diaries....... ......or perhaps this should be titled 'The journal of a slightly 'odd' horsewoman, her infinitely patient 'other half', 13 independent ponies (including the 'just a bit too big to be ponies' ones), 3 hilarious pigs and 5 very energetic Jack Russells'. When I first moved to East Sussex, UK over a decade ago, with 7 ponies in tow to 'start a riding school', little did I know that the ponies had other ideas..... 12 years later and we are on a very different path - a far better and more rewarding one but one which has challenges all of it's own Inside the...

There is a well known saying that "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear" (Buddhist Proverb) - well, my teachers have appeared in the form of horses and continue to do so. Anyone who has spent any length of time around horses cannot have failed to have observed some of the profound lessons they are able to teach us. The question however, is whether we have actually learnt from them Inside the covers of this book, you will find some of those lessons that I am now sharing with you so that their legacy can grow and 'ripple' outwards. There have been so many lessons but these are...