Catherine Lorimer's Guide to Life

Happy Valentines Day everyone, I hope that you all have a lovely day. On todays podcast I am chatting about healthy love.  Asking what is healthy love in a relationships, signs of unhealthy love and what to do if you are in a relationship where you are not getting what you need.  Also why selflove and self care is really important. Feeling loved, wanted and needed is a basic human need, its not so...

I messaged my dating Buddy and said its my third date.  The reply ohh its the third date rule, I replied what is that... I look into the third date rule and question why it is a thing? It you have had two dates 6 hours each, that's less time than you would spend with your work colleagues on your first day at work, 7.5 hours average and you hardly know them, so why would spending only 6 hours...

On this weeks podcast I chat about why its a really good idea to get a dating buddy who you can chat to about guys profiles, where you should meet, what things are concerning you, check their behaviour.  Chat about how you feel about someone and chat about well generally anything.  It also means you will be less likely to message the new man in your life as much which will give him the space that...

On this weeks podcast I chat about about getting unwanted sexual messages on dating apps and how to spot the profiles that might send you these types of messages.  If you get a message then just don't interact with them, just block them as they will feed off the attention of the reply that you sent them. I also chat about deception and people who lie and types of lies, at the end of the day i...

One this weeks podcast I find out whether Dating App Addictions are a thing. I run through the top ten mismatched expectations in a relationship and why its important to spend sometime working out what sort of person you are and what you are looking for in a relationship. I also chat about communication challenges, communication in a relationship is one of the most important things and if you can&...

On this weeks podcast I chat about Ghosting and Catfishing and also online dating fraud. I delve into how to avoid being ghosted and what we should be doing rather than ghosting someone. I discuss what catfishing is and how to spot a catfish dating profile and also touch on dating fraud, the upshot being that you should not be giving money or personal details to anyone that you have not been intim...

One this weeks podcast I chat about Breadcrumbing and Paperlclipping in dating, what they are and how you should call people out on their behaviour or stop someone from behaving like that towards us in the first place. If you are interested you are interested but I for one am done with someone chucking my breadcrumbs to try and keep my interest while they are making their mind up.  If they can&apo...

In this weeks podcast I am chatting about what we as women need to be aware of as men seeing as a red flag and what red flags we should look out for in men.  I also question some of the red flags as to whether they are valid or not. Thanks for listening contact me on the show

This week I am chatting about how to get though the ups and downs of dating. What sort of mindset you should be in before you date and also how to set boundaries about what behaviours you will and won't accept.   Have a great week everyone :) Thanks for listening contact me on the show

For this weeks podcast I spent a week online dating on Bumble. Have a listen to my podcast to see how it went, for hints and tips and get an idea of just how many guys you need to chat to, be it real or bots to find someone that you actually want to meet? Its an online dating platform so keep that in mind and not a social networking platform, so yea chat for a couple of days, then ask them if they...

This week we have had a fair amount of snow and some horses will not have had any access to turn out. With this in mind this weeks podcast is about how to stay safe out hacking, being courteous to other road uses, wearing high viz and also some hints and tips for other road uses on what you might be passing on the road, i.e. a horse that has been in a stable for 23 hours, or a horse that has just...

In this weeks podcast I am looking at what to look for when buying a horse trailer, why weights and dimensions are more important than the colour.   I also chat about towing vehicles and what you should look at and think about when buying a tow vehicle. Thanks for listening contact me on the show

In this weeks podcast I am chatting about horse trailer maintenance, what you should should check every time you use your horse trailer. I also go through hitching and have produced a social media video which you can look at to ensure you are attaching the emergency brake cable to the correct part of the towing vehicle.  I also run through what can go wrong if you don't get your trailer servi...

This weeks podcast is about a really awful week that I had, my Fell pony became really ill while I was at work and I was also really ill. It makes you realise that you can go from 100% to 10% in the space of a day and it has made me appreciate my health and that I need to ensure that I am living in the present moment and not thinking about the past or the present. Having a great team around me ens...

Do you get confused about what wormer to use when, whether we should be using wormer or testing for worm counts instead. Are you getting frustrated that the cost of testing is more than the wormer.  Have a listen to my podcast I run through what we should be doing and why, then come up with a plan of what is realistic to do in a cost effective way. Thanks for listening contact me on the show

This is a topic I see being asked a lot and having owned a really wet horse and wanting to stop the muck heap from becoming the size of the Himalayas. I tried loads of different types of bedding to find which was the best one to use. I also chat about deep shavings beds and shallow beds on rubber matting and the impact on respiratory health.  Thanks for listening contact me on the show

As an amateur rider should I clip my horse for the winter? I chat about why we clip a horse, what clips there are and what might suit different horses for amateur riders.  I also chat about my experience of using different types of clippers issues I have had and a bit about clipper maintenance. Thanks for listening contact me on the show

This week Jane and I have been discussing rugs and what we should rug be rugging our horses or not.  I go through the reasoning behind rugging your horse, different materials on the outside and different fills and why I think its important to rug a veteran horse to stop them loosing condition. Thanks for listening contact me on the show

With most livery yards being full of strong minded, strong willed equestrian women, myself included this weeks podcasts provides guidance on communication. I chat about some of the communication errors that I have made and how I would handle things differently next time and what were my communication successes this week. Thanks for listening contact me on the show

Most equestrians dream of keeping their horse at home and having kept my horse on livery for ten years and then been lucky enough to achieve my dream and keep my horse at home for ten years. I compare the two and provide a realistic view of my experience of keeping a horse at home. Just how much did I actually ride when I kept my horses at home? Thanks for listening contact me on the show

This week on my Podcast I am chatting about colic as we had a possible colic on the yard and having had two horses which had Colic, both of which were caught early and without surgical intervention, I thought I would share my experience of these with everyone.   This podcase is particularly useful to first time horse owners.   Thanks for listening contact me on the show

One this weeks Podcast I am chatting about Fun Rides and you may have seen my friend Jane and I doing a few of them on social media. I chat about what fun rides are, fun ride etiquette, fitness and preparation,  transport and how to find a fun ride buddy. Thanks for listening contact me on the show

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This week I have an altercation with a guy on Instagram. I meet up with an amazing group of positive minded people for a walk up Old Man Coniston, organised by Adventure Solos  And I give Fell Pony Merlin a bath. Thanks for listening contact me on the show

Catch up with the yard antics in this week's podcast as Jane and I head off to the gallops for some Fellwell fun.  Sarah organises an agility competition in which Jane and I get competitive, I manage to canter Merlin past some washing, then Jane and I have an altercation with a woman pulling a wheelie bin while out hacking. Thanks for listening contact me on the show