Tag Archives: riding

Walk for a minister

Posted on 31/07/2022 by campaignerkate

We devised a walk to demonstrate to the environment minister, Richard Benyon, how agricultural payments can fund more and better access. Continue reading →

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And life no longer what it was

Posted on 26/08/2021 by campaignerkate

Fifty years ago today I was inspired to become a campaigner. Continue reading →

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How independent?

Posted on 05/11/2016 by campaignerkate

How independent is Natural England? Defra has cut its vital survey yet NE has apparently said nothing. Continue reading →

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Vital volunteers

Posted on 08/06/2016 by campaignerkate

Volunteers Week: a fine opportunity to celebrate those who protect our public paths, and to consider the impediments they face. Continue reading →

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Dee’s centenary

Posted on 28/01/2016 by campaignerkate

My friend Dee Ivey would have been 100 today, 28 January 2016, and so I am thinking of her especially, and the huge influence she had on me and numerous other pony-loving children. She introduced me to Dartmoor and to its … Continue reading →

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A hypothetical question

Posted on 11/12/2015 by campaignerkate

‘If the choice which the country has to make is between well-trained forces on the one hand and sacrificing your pony rides on the other … where would you like the government to make the choice?’ That was the first, … Continue reading →

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Copydog?

Posted on 10/10/2015 by campaignerkate

This year, as in every other year, on the final day of the Horse of the Year Show, Sunday 11 October, the immortal words of Ronald Duncan’s eulogy, The Horse, will be recited. Duncan wrote the poem in 1964 at the request … Continue reading →

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Henry, the plucky pony

Posted on 23/12/2014 by campaignerkate

Over the last few years I have often seen my friends Eddie and Lorna Bilous, with their small dog Bazil, driving a carriage pony around the Chiltern lanes. They live half a mile away from me in Turville.  We stop to chat (if … Continue reading →

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Loss at Larkhill

Posted on 06/11/2014 by campaignerkate

Thirty years ago today, on 6 November 1984, a public inquiry opened in Devizes.  It was to investigate the Ministry of Defence’s plans to close 32 miles of public paths across the Larkhill artillery ranges in Wiltshire.  I was there … Continue reading →

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Live and let live—but not on the bridleway

Posted on 27/08/2014 by campaignerkate

The former Live and Let Live pub on the edge of Booker Common, west of High Wycombe in Bucks, has been extended and converted into a private house, with planning permission for two houses on the adjacent land, which was the pub … Continue reading →

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