Month: July 2022
Holidays on horseback
Welcome to another guest blog by Janet Rising. This originally appeared on my old website and blog, but I wanted to give it a new lease of life over here. *** When I was twelve, my friend Elizabeth and I went on a riding holiday. The brochure from the centre singled out for my experience…
Thelwell and the ponies who plot
Norman Thelwell was probably best known for his ponies. He was the illustrator of many pony-mad children’s childhoods: not the lovely dream of a matchless grey swishing round the show ring, festooned with rosettes, but the foul tempered pony determined not to be caught and entirely deaf to any suggestion that it be schooled. Much…