The challenges that manufacturing businesses are having in the UK since Brexit and Covid continue to cause all sorts of stress, high costs, delays, and in some cases, business owners throwing the towel in and closing down! The latest casualty of this mess seems to be in the supply of the special wool-fleece material that we have been using in our saddle pads for many years. Don't panic! The supply problem we thought we were going to have to manage, seems to have been resolved, although it will cause a delay in being able to order more stock for...
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...