Life Lately: Turning 30, Seasonal Silliness & Work Adventures.

We are indeed, because as I said, lots has been happening whilst we have been away, including I was very fortunate to work for the Clip My Horse in-out studio for the World Equestrian Games, well, the World Championships, as they are now known, in Aachen.

Now, Joss, I don't know if you saw any of the footage on social media.

Aachen is just unreal, isn't it, as a venue?

Yeah, so Arkan for the World Equestrian Games, the World Championships, Arkan has got a huge heritage dating way back within equestrianism.

So whenever World Championships or World Games or whatever go back to Arkan, it is for horse sport.

It's a really big thing.

big deal because it's like sort of the necker of all horse sports.

So Rosie, you were lucky enough to be involved and work with that team.

So tell me what you got up to and what it was like.

So yeah, as I say, I was working for the Clip My Horse in-out studio and part of what they put on, they put on so much footage for everybody to watch.

Obviously there was the main action, but they had a preview show and a review show every day.

So for dressage, I was part of that preview and review show as the analyst, but every single day I was also doing news pieces.

So that had to be for every discipline.

And some days there were three disciplines going on all at the same time.

So I would write these news pieces to basically as an overview of what happened that day and read it like it was the news, which was great because I got to dive into other equine disciplines that I don't normally cover as frequently, the likes of driving and the likes of vaulting and para dressage, all really, really interesting disciplines.

But to be able to dive a bit deeper into them and explore them and look at some of the achievements, like Boyd XL in driving has like eight world championship titles now imagine having eight world championship titles in anything i just i couldn't imagine having one let alone eight so um it was really interesting to dive into that the eventing that we all love was just amazing competition to watch i adored the show jumping as well because It was just action, left, right and centre.

The story that you thought was going to unfold and then there was a twist and a twist and I love a show like that.

There was nothing dangerous or anything terrible.

It was just dramatic in its own way.

Likewise with the dressage and...

It was brilliant to watch.

I was also so lucky that the week before the World Championships, I got to go up to Richard Davidson's yard, who is a big name in the world of dressage.

He's been to many championships himself, and he was the co-commentator in Arken.

And I got to sit down and do an interview with him about dressage.

And it was just fascinating hearing from a man who's been to these championships so frequently throughout his career.