Tag: PONY Magazine
Jane Badger Books in the press
In the press Jane Badger Books features regularly in Boys Ride Too. Horse and Hound featured my Jill and the Lost Ponies as one of their books of 2021, and also wrote about me republishing the Jill books. Town & Country wrote about the eBooks in 2019. And also … I’ve been featured, interviewed or…
Model ponies and other toys of dreams
For many pony mad girls, if you didn’t have a pony, you had a model pony. Preferably lots. I was definitely in the lots camp, having a fine collection of Britains model horses, riders and stables. The big advantage to Britains was that they were cheap: my 5/- (25p) pocket money would buy one in…
Lights! Camera! Action! The joys of the photo shoot.
by Janet Rising For many years I taught riding. I also used to run riding school pony weeks – five full-on days of being responsible for up to 12 youngsters and ponies. This was a nerve-shattering responsibility, and I was constantly on the lookout for danger signals and opportunities for accidents in order to nip…
’tis the season to be…
Janet Rising joins the blog again for a voyage around Christmas past. And present. (You’re welcome.) ~0~ If you’re one of the people who always insist, ‘Oh it just doesn’t feel like Christmas until we’ve been to Olympia,’ then clearly you’re on a hiding to nothing this year, what with the famous event having fallen…
Do write in and tell us what you think…
‘Would you like to write something for my blog?’ asked Jane. ‘If you did, perhaps you could make it something to do with Pony Mag, as I’ve got lots of old copies to illustrate it with.’ Piece of cake, I thought. And thought. And thought. Nothing much came. So I dug out the five or…
How (not) to run a Win a Pony competition
Remember those Win a Pony competitions that got everyone so excited? When I was editor of PONY, we thought it would be a great idea to revive it…