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08/03/2024

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21/01/2024

Happy New Year 2024 - The Guardian reports this year that Back Pain is becoming an increasing problem. This is mostly due to changes in our work patterns and also access to health services seems to still be affected post-pandemic. I still believe truly that Osteopathy offers an effective and affordable solution balanced against work loss and increasing disability when one loses the direction to get back to full health. There are lots of therapies available, however, Osteopathy "takes the time " to apply an efficient method of manipulation and soft tissue release. At Spinalsolutions, we also support this with exercises tailored to your needs which we publish on YouTube (please subscribe )https://www.youtube.com/shorts/th3Pchl-z2E as well as nutritional advice and a coaching approach that helps you realise your own deep resources.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/19/back-and-neck-problems-driving-major-uk-health-crisis-say-medical-leaders

13/02/2023

29/01/2023

08/01/2023

There is an old pony in a big pen by the barn. He has no real purpose. No kids ride him, he is not a companion to another old horse.

We have no history together. He came into my life by happenstance. There are no fond, warm fuzzy memories. I owe him nothing. But he’s polite and kind, and nickers to me as I come out the door in the morning.

He eats a princely sum of special food, and has a premium round bale of irrigated grass that the other horses can only dream of. His water is fresh, and warmed in the winter. I’ve gone out there late at night to make sure he has food, and he’s the first thing I attend to after morning coffee.

Why? Why not send him to the sale where ‘someone’ will want him? At 40 cents a pound, he’d be worth a nice steak dinner and drinks in town. They’ll load him on a truck with 30 other old ponies and horses, and somewhere down that line, if he doesn’t fall from his bad knee and get trampled in the transport, he will become dog food.

There’s a bum calf in our scale house on this cold frosty night. He’s little and scrawny, with p**p stuck to his butt, and a bit of a runny nose. There’s a heater in there keeping the temp above freezing. In the morning I’ll make him a bottle of warm milk replacer and try to convince him to eat some of the pony’s special food. Bob will clean his little house and put down fresh bedding. It would be easier to have left him in the field with the 500 bigger, stronger calves, to steal milk from the occasional tolerant cow, to eventually freeze to death and feed the coyotes that lurk about the herd for just such an opportunity.

There is a wild kitten in the barn who most likely jumped off a utility truck a while back. We’ve been leaving food just for him, and making sure the heated water bowl is full, so he doesn’t have to go outside and perch precariously on the horse waterer to drink.

I guess we sound like saps, the old cowboy and I. Sort of wimpy and un-ranch like.

I guess we are. But at our age, with certain infirmities starting to creep into our daily routines, and the realization that we are not perfect, we are thinking that kindness is a virtue and care is our purpose.

Care of not just the healthy robust animals that make money and pay the bills, but care of everything we are capable of caring for - those creatures that, like us, are in need of a bit more attention to get through the day.

We didn’t go about seeking these creatures- they came to us and landed here not of their own choosing, or ours. But here they are, and off I go to town to a business that provides enough to buy the expensive milk replacer, premium hay, and special pony food.

There may be some karma in all this, or maybe not, but in the end we’ll know we did the best we could for those that needed us.

Peace. Really, I mean it.

06/01/2023

Happy Birthday Greta Thunberg❣️

06/01/2023

Happy Birthday ❤️

29/12/2022

Now that’s a victory

Mexican beekeepers win fight against Monsanto! After hearing the evidence, a permit issued to Monsanto allowing Roundup-ready soybean production in the Yucatan has been overturned. The threat GM soybeans pose to the bees and honey production was deemed unacceptable. Sweet victory!

28/12/2022

But vegetarians are no push over ok

19/12/2022

Reconnecting with nature is like coming home from a long journey.