Autumn Clean

Perhaps even more satisfying than a spring clean? I love the end of a competitive season and heading into Autumn, I know an unpopular opinion! But stay with me on this. Spring is full of hope, ambition, planning and preparing for the year ahead, which is lovely but I find it quite stressful, not in a bad way but because I want my goals so much and pour so much time and effort into them it’s tense as you never know whether it will pan out how you wanted. You can do the best prep in the world, have the fittest horse, strongest rider and perfect race conditions but sometimes it just doesn’t work out. That’s just life and definitely just horses.

Whereas Autumn is more reflective for me. I’m looking forward to what could be knowing there’s plenty of time for preparation over winter. But mainly a spring clean usually entails scraping mud off everything, washing hundreds of layers and trying to get everything dry, yet an autumn clean is much more organising, putting away and pottering around. This is purely in my head. I could change my mindset and switch it all up but I like the buzz and tension of a new competitive season and I also like the relaxed reflection at the end.

Anyway with the Swallows gone for another year it was time to give everything a clean, they poo an astonishing amount and get it over absolutely everything possible for such little birds!