Yesterday, after 3 months of intense “Blind horse meditation”, we let our beloved Doodle return to spirit. Blindness was no place for this most free-spirited of creatures to live, so despite our breaking hearts we released him. For 3 months our lives here have revolved around keeping Doodle safe and happy after he suddenly became […]
Busy Doing Nothing We have had an incredibly busy time recently. Many people have passed across our deck, and left here nourished and inspired. It’s been fun, but these days you’ll mostly find me lying on the sofa staring into the long distance. It looks like I am doing nothing, but really I’m regenerating. I […]
I can’t tell you how relieved I am to see Sufi 100% sound and tearing across the hills. Just 3 mornings ago I was faced with something I have been secretly dreading. A horse limping up the hill for breakfast! I could see Sufi’s head bobbing as she came through the tall shrubs. My stomach […]
Men plan, God Laughs! If I recall, the last thing I wrote on this blog was, “From now on I’ll be blogging regularly”. Do I hear the gods laugh? I’m afraid I grossly underestimated the time and energy required to build a home from scratch. And I mean scratch: no water, no electricity, no habitable dwelling […]
Exploring horse is on the move! After two years as the guests of the Woodleys, in Central Portugal, we have found a home of our own in the fabulous Alentejo region (warmer, drier). It has been six intensive months of searching, but we have finally agreed a price and are now in the contract signing phase. […]
It’s five months today since the horses and I arrived here in Portugal, exhausted, dislocated – and relieved. At least I was relieved. The horses simply shook themselves off, snorted, and checked out the local grass as they came off the truck. Then we set out on the one kilometre walk that would complete our […]
