It is February in 2023 and I find myself in the grip of a frenzy of sorting and editing many things in my home and my life! As our dear Teressa (fellow director and manager of the sales side of BALANCE) will testify, I am, by nature a hoarder. She, by contrast is not, and would happily order a skip and have a high old time filling it up with everything that had been gathering dust for a couple of years. In fact, in 2020, when I took the decision not to renew the lease on the...
A story about a nice, but ordinary horse, who finds himself in a bit of a pickle because his person gets led astray by a fancy saddle and an ambition to ride like an Olympian. Are you sitting comfortably? Then we will begin.... If we create a fictitious recreational rider it will serve to identify and discuss some of the common problems that saddle ‘fitters’ have to contend with when juggling the needs of the horse and the desires of the rider. In fact I am going to use other fictitious characters in this story to illustrate...
Stop the Bus ……. I want to get off! I remember saying to people at the end of 2021 ……… “It’s been a tough 2 years, but surely 2022 is going to be better”. 🤞 I really believed it too. I thought that Covid would become less and less disruptive and that the fall out from Brexit would start to calm down. Yet, here we are, coming to the end of March 2022 and nothing about life or running a small business, feels any easier. In fact, the challenges just keep piling on. Who could have imagined...