Howe To Drive @ Bradbourne Carriage Driving Centre

A massive congratulations to Rosanna and Anna for bringing home the medals. We are really pleased with the Gingers they tried their little hearts out! Off to bed for us humans now as a long drive ahead of us tomorrow. Mind you not sure we will get much sleep as the Dutch are seriously partying right now! We plan to pull out of here at 8am tomorrow morning and should hopefully arrive in Le Mans 9-10 hours later! A night in Le Mans then the final leg of the journey home on Tuesday. We ha...
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A little lie in this morning ponies fed at 8am. They were all a little fed up as the cant see over their stable doors. But we soon sorted that and put up the stall guards and they seemed much happier. Jack is the only one that's worked out how to sneak underneath it! We drove the Dressage team today they all seamed happy and feeling well and Sara got to drive them in the main arena for a whole 6 minutes! After the driving it was all hands on deck for harness and carriage cleaning. Shu...
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A lovely restful day and night in Bordeaux. A lovely yard with nice stables, plenty of room to walk the ponies out and they even got to go out in a field for a few hours. Everyone doing well and feeling good especially Pip!! We left Bordeaux at 10.15 this morning and now on route to Pau. Hopefully arrive there around 1.15pm. Weather has been good to us so far but the rain has now started. We have been warned that the storms you guys have had are coming this way hope you are all well a...
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Very interesting day, arrived in France with no problems. Drama started when we pulled in for fuel 3 hours from Calais to discover the A frame on the front of the trailer was cracked both sides to the point where if we had gone much further the trailer wouldn't have stayed with us. Several hundred phone calls later and several hours later the trailer is welded together enough to hold it for a few miles and we take it to a garage. Again a million more phone calls and several hours late...
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Competing at an outdoor National Final was an exceptional experience for us!
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BCDC September Camp – red rosettes!

We arrived at the September camp in heavy rain but bright eyed and bushy tailed ready for another chapter in our carriage driving experience. Jenny was both excited and anxious as she had finally bought a 4 wheel carriage that Ronan – her naughty Fell pony – had yet to encounter. I was fine until day two when I discovered that Sara had passed me on to Leonie for my dressage lessons! Much to my surprise they went really well and at last I began to under...

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PONY POWER: It all began when Jack, our youngest son, grew out of Buster, his 11hh hunting / pony club pony. PICTURE OF BUSTER AND JACK HUNTING Buster needed a new job as he wasn’t ideal as a small child’s riding pony, I put him in a carriage and we pottered around the lanes for a year or two. Then we had a go at club trials for a bit of fun, paying pocket money to my reluctant kids to back-step for me. The trials took us round the southeast, Sevenoaks, Windsor, and Goodwood. We had the m...
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