I confess, I found that painful to read. Speaking people doing their homework, checking their article for spelling and grammar.

I'm nitpicky.

I was very, very lucky I got to spend a year and a half or thereabouts horseback riding. We traded in pretty much everything that my mother had from her horseback riding days (mostly jumps, and after that, hay) so that I could learn, and it was *fun*. I just wish things hadn't turned out the way they did, and now I wouldn't have the skill or the practice to take it up again.

Shame, horses are lovely.

/onlyslightlyofftopicrambling