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How To Be Happier: Chapter 10

By Sue Palmer on April 26, 2021

Safety “You’re never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything.” Rick Yansey, The Last Star When I first thought about this chapter, I was going to write about how being safe makes us happier. And to a large degree, that’s […]

25.4.2021 Guest Blog from Dr Sue Dyson

By Sue Palmer on April 25, 2021

An ethogram is a series of behaviours each with strict definitions, for example ears back behind a vertical position for five seconds or more. The Ridden Horse Pain Ethogram (RHpE) was developed to facilitate the recognition of discomfort in ridden horses, which was likely to reflect either primary musculoskeletal pain or discomfort caused by the […]

Guest Blog: Amy MacKinnon

By Sue Palmer on April 24, 2021

Guest guest blog from @amymackinnonequestrian Quiet, peaceful mornings I absolutely adore my quiet, peaceful mornings caring for my horses. The earlier the better! The horses low whinnies and the robin’s song are a welcome greeting. Turning out in the half light , the sounds accompanying me are birdsong and I notice the feline population of […]

How To Be Happier: Chapter 9

By Sue Palmer on April 23, 2021

Animals “If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.” James Herriot This morning I’m on my own. And yet, of course, I’m not on my own. My partner in crime, my son Philip, is away for a few days, […]

“Of course it’s in your head, why on earth should that mean it’s not real?!”

By Sue Palmer on April 22, 2021

This is a subject close to my heart at the moment, as instinct and emotion battles with common sense in my life. I have always believed that you make your own luck, and I realise now how incredibly lucky I have been that pretty much everything has gone my way, even if at the time […]

One Sixth Saddles

By Sue Palmer on April 21, 2021

Today’s guest blog is by Val Evans from One Sixth Saddles Toys… everyone played with them as kids, everyone had a favourite toy. When I saw my favourite Marx toy horse – some 40 years after I last played with him – it brought back so many memories! I was blown away by the amazingly realistic […]

How To Be Happier: Chapter 8

By Sue Palmer on April 20, 2021

Planning “Mother gave me support with one of her terse asides: ‘That’s what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you’ve got .I’ve told you many times, can’t do is like don’t care. Neither of them have a home.’” Maya Angelou, in “I Know Why The Caged […]

A bottle of perseverance

By Sue Palmer on April 19, 2021

A bottle of perseverance “Would you like a drink? It’s my own special brew, I call it ‘Perseverance’.” In a book I was listening to recently, there was mention of someone giving a friend a bottle of green liquid, which was labelled ‘Enthusiasm’. Thinking about this made me smile. Last night, my son was trying […]

18.4.2021 What is an orthopaedic surgeon?

By Sue Palmer on April 19, 2021

Webinar with Warren Schofield MRCVS As a Chartered Physiotherapist, I specialise in working with the musculoskeletal system, and it fascinates me. I find it incredible that everything is attached to everything else through the fascia, a thin, cling film like tissue that runs throughout the body. It’s amazing that our bones give our bodies such […]

How To Be Happier: Chapter 7

By Sue Palmer on April 17, 2021

Learning “To teach is to touch a life forever.” Anonymous I had this quote pinned on my cork board when I was a teenager, and I still have the same one, now stuck on my freezer with a fridge magnet. I love learning. I am an eternal student. Not that I like exams. But I […]

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