Bank Farm Livery

The farm ride is now open… our liveries can now have a little trot down to admire the beautiful view and a nice amble around the fields .. the hay and haylage is done 🤩🙌🏻

Great to see our liveries out and about having fun on this bank holiday Monday 🎉

Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas 🎅🏻🎄

Merry Christmas Guys….🎅 enjoy this comical read (which also happens to be the most accurate post ive read recently! 😂)

Ah, horse owning. Truly one of life’s greatest and most efficient ways to start an argument.

If your family Christmas gathering is feeling a bit flat, forget politics or who voted for what—Just put a group of horse owners in the same room and ask one tiny, harmless question. Something like, “So what’s the best way to keep a horse?” The room will pick sides faster than asking if die hard is a Christmas film.

Ask how often you should jump a horse and suddenly everyone has a horror story, a success story, and a cousin’s friend whose horse was “completely ruined” by doing it differently, backed up by a screenshot from Facebook 4 years ago. Bonus points if you ask this while someone’s holding a mug of tea—they’ll forget it exists as they gesture wildly.

But if you really want chaos—true, unhinged, relationships-will-never-recover chaos—ask this: If you absolutely had to choose, would you rather a horse live in 24 hours a day or live out 24 hours a day? Then gently add, “Oh, and it’s winter. And it’s been raining for three weeks straight.” Step back. Observe. Maybe put on a helmet.

Suddenly you’re surrounded by passionate speeches about mud fever, respiratory health, mental wellbeing, ruined fields, ruined stables, ruined rugs, and ruined bank accounts. Someone will say “in the wild…” Someone else will interrupt with “but domesticated horses…” and before you know it, two best friends of ten years are no longer speaking because one said horses prefer being in and the other gasped like they’d just confessed to a crime.

Is this why horse owners are known for being “bitchy”? Is this why horse owners have a reputation for being “bitchy”? Or is it just because there are roughly 47,000 correct ways to keep a horse, and somehow everyone else has chosen the wrong one? Mix strong opinions with no sleep, no money, constant worry, and an animal with very limited brain cells that reacts to existence like it’s a personal attack and honestly—it’s amazing we’re as civil as we are.

Horse people aren’t dramatic. We’re just passionate, permanently tired, and one badly worded question away from a full-scale debate that lasts longer than the rain in winter.