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Post by michaela on Mar 16, 2014 16:05:11 GMT 1
Hi, I'm Michaela, originally from Lancashire but now living in Southern Ireland. I love re-reading my old pony books, they're great comfort reads. I'm 57 btw :-)
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Post by Claire on Mar 16, 2014 17:07:44 GMT 1
Hi Michaela and a very warm welcome to the forum. I hope you'll enjoy it here and find some new friends. Very nice pic for your avatar - is that your horse?
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Post by Darkhorse1 on Mar 16, 2014 17:33:03 GMT 1
Hello and welcome Michaela. (I'm actually a long standing member here not a guest but haven't been able to log in for a while for some reason)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2014 17:41:33 GMT 1
Welcome Michaela, I see you have good taste liking the Worlds End Series I like your avatar too and if it is your horse what a beauty!
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Post by michaela on Mar 16, 2014 18:29:48 GMT 1
Hi Claire, Thanks for the welcome, and yes she was my horse, sadly she died in 2005 :-(
Hi Darkhorse, That must be frustrating, not being able to log in. I hope you can resolve it soon
Hi Rosie, I love all Monica Dickens books, adult non-horsey as well. Thank you for your kind words about my girl - her name was Rosie!
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Post by Claire on Mar 16, 2014 19:29:26 GMT 1
Sorry to hear your girl is no longer with you. She certainly was a stunner. Rosie is a popular name on here, my cat was also called Rosie but sadly she just recently passed away.
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Post by michaela on Mar 16, 2014 19:35:27 GMT 1
So sorry to hear you've recently lost your Rosie. It never gets any easier to say goodbye to them, does it
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2014 19:52:25 GMT 1
Aww sorry to hear about Rosie.
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Post by nzponywriter on Mar 24, 2014 0:09:23 GMT 1
Hi everyone, I'm Kate Lattey, a pony book author from New Zealand. I have two books available on Amazon at the moment, "Dare to Dream" (see profile pic) and "Flying Changes" (Clearwater Bay #1). I am currently working on the sequel to "Dare to Dream", and also have 3 more books in the Clearwater Bay series in the pipeline. I'm a huge pony book fan and have been riding for most of my life. My books are set in New Zealand, where I live, although I have lived and worked with horses in the UK, Ireland and the USA - the "Clearwater Bay" series features a teenage girl who moved from England to live in New Zealand, so will hopefully be of particular interest to UK readers. A quick blurb on each: DARE TO DREAM Saying goodbye to the horses they love has become a way of life for Marley and her sisters, who train and sell show jumpers to make their living. Marley has grand ambitions to jump in Pony of the Year, but every good pony she’s ever had has been sold out from under her to pay the bills. Then a half-wild pinto pony comes into her life, and Marley finds that this most unlikely of champions could be the superstar she has always dreamed of. As Marley and Cruise rise quickly to the top of their sport, it seems as though her dreams of winning the Pony of the Year might come true after all. But her family is struggling to make ends meet, and as the countdown to Pony of the Year begins, Marley is forced to face the possibility of losing the pony she has come to love more than anything else in the world. Can Marley save the farm she loves, without sacrificing the pony she can’t live without? * * * FLYING CHANGES When Jay moves from her home in England to live with her estranged father in rural New Zealand, it is only his promise of a pony of her own that convinces her to leave her old life behind and start over in a new country. Change doesn’t come easily at first, and Jay makes as many enemies as she does friends before she finds the perfect pony, who seems destined to make her dreams of show jumping success come true. But she soon discovers that training her own pony is not as easy as she thought it would be, and her dream pony is becoming increasingly unmanageable and difficult to ride. Can Jay pull it together, or has she made the biggest mistake of her life? * * * If anyone has read my books I would love to hear from you! To find out more about my books, you can visit my website at nzponywriter.com Thanks and I look forward to meeting everyone on this forum!
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Post by Claire on Mar 24, 2014 5:44:55 GMT 1
Welcome Kate. Hope you enjoy visiting here and meeting us. We have a few other pony book authors on here as well as readers and collectors. Your books sound great.
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Post by michaela on Mar 24, 2014 16:31:20 GMT 1
Welcome Kate, I'm so glad that you found us and thanks for telling us about your books, they sound great. I'm particularly drawn to Flying Changes so will go and look for that on Amazon
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2014 19:26:36 GMT 1
Hi and welcome
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Post by Darkhorse1 on Mar 25, 2014 18:24:22 GMT 1
Hi Kate, welcome to our forum
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Post by nzponywriter on Mar 26, 2014 7:53:06 GMT 1
Thanks everyone! I'm having a great time reading through the Reviews thread, and I'm excited to explore this forum properly at some stage (for now I need to go eat dinner, I'm starving!).
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Post by ettavalentine on Jun 7, 2014 15:17:26 GMT 1
I'm another who is trying to track down all those books I gave away years ago. Every 're-found' book brings great excitement. A fan of Ruby Ferguson, Gillian Baxter, Caroline Akrill and the PT sisters. hiya, I was not that keen on Ruby Ferguson all those years ago, I preferred the Pullein-Thompson sisters, particularly, Josephine, but recently I was reading about Ruby Ferguson in Wikipedia and discovered an e-book written by her, before she wrote the Jill books. It's not about horses but it's brilliantly written and I found an e-book copy on Kobo, it is called; "He Arrived at Dusk" by R. C. Ashby. Ruby Ferguson was her married name.
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Post by Claire on Jun 7, 2014 19:45:15 GMT 1
Welcome to the forum ettavalentine and thanks for the heads up about the Ruby Ferguson ebook. I'll have to have a look for that.
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Post by Dasko K. on Jul 7, 2014 16:15:42 GMT 1
Hi there,
I´m a truly mad pony book lover since early childhood (I´m actually 46) and from the north of Germany. I thoroughly enjoy this site and - having read here for a long rime - registered today because I search for a special book which name and author I don´t remember.
The books I loved most in early days were the books by British writers, eg Fly by Night, all of Monica Dickens, Ruby Ferguson, the Pullein-Thompsons and many more. Now I´m recollecting them in English because most of the translations are so awful and as I discovered a few years ago (comparing Well Groomed with the German edition, French Relations isn´t even translated!!) are shortened by many many sides.
So, if you could help me here it would be great. The book is about a girl with a pony (haha) who sometimes meets a girl named Amanda who sends her to a familiy to compete with them. They expect Amanda and dont´t like her at all. But a she is a good rider they need her. As the girl arrives there she learns that she was cheated by this very Amanda and pretends to be her and behaves very bad. Of course there is a happy ending...
Any ideas?
Hope you understand what I mean as naturally it´s not my mother language.
Many regards from Germany and thanks in advance Dunja
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2014 18:43:32 GMT 1
Welcome Daskos I'm afraid I don't recognise the book sadly. Hopefully it will ring bells with someone here
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Post by cloud on Jul 7, 2014 18:55:50 GMT 1
Welcome Daskos I'm afraid I don't recognise the book sadly. Hopefully it will ring bells with someone here lol That's easy - unlike the Dartmoor one which is still perplexing me! It's one of the Jill books, Jill and the Perfect Pony!
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Post by Dasko K. on Jul 7, 2014 19:10:38 GMT 1
Thank you so much!!! So it really is one of the Jill books, I wasn´t quite shure. Thanks! And the pony is called Plum, memory returns :-)
Maybe you can help me once more? I´d like to buy the rest of the Jill books from part 2. It´s very annoying (and expensive shipping) if I order them one by one on amazon.uk. They are not available here in D. AND also the Pullein-Thompson books which are the Moor-series (?). You know a site where I can buy the whole lot at once?
Have a nice evening!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2014 7:00:39 GMT 1
Welcome Daskos I'm afraid I don't recognise the book sadly. Hopefully it will ring bells with someone here lol That's easy - unlike the Dartmoor one which is still perplexing me! It's one of the Jill books, Jill and the Perfect Pony! Well how embarrassing, my poor memory at it again. I've read that loads of times lol
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Post by Dasko K. on Jul 8, 2014 18:50:51 GMT 1
To finish my introduction as I hope to stay here a bit longer: Apart from the beautiful young gelding in my avatar who was so polite to lend me his name this bunch of doggies, all collected from people who wanted to get rid of them, lives here with me. Two deaf ones (the whiteish) and the off-coloured Madame.
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Post by Claire on Jul 8, 2014 19:18:14 GMT 1
Hi Dasko, welcome to the forum! Sorry for the slow welcome - as chief noderator, admin (and bottle washer) I normally welcome all the newbies, but my laptop has taken a wobbler on me! Hope you'll enjoy coming on here. Its interesting that you are from Garmany. Pony books seem very popular over there and there seem to be a lot of pony books published there too. You must let us know what they are like, would be interesting to compare. Rosie - hang your head in shame not recognising Jill and the Perfect Pony lol.
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Post by sarahhighland on Jul 23, 2014 0:29:49 GMT 1
Hi. I'm Sarah. I like the Saddle Club so i searched for pony forums. I have a disease broadly similar to Turner's. Like how a lot of girls with Turnerls look like children, I have the body and appearance of an _extremely_ young child. Suffered cause of it.
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Post by Claire on Jul 23, 2014 18:03:18 GMT 1
Hi sarahighland and welcome to the forum. Sorry to hear about your health problems. Hope you'll enjoy visiting here.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2014 20:25:48 GMT 1
Hello Sarah welcome!
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Post by madwippitt on Aug 2, 2014 23:20:42 GMT 1
Hi, I'm Karen ... have been busy finishing writing a book, so looking forward to getting back into doing some reading again now!
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Post by Claire on Aug 3, 2014 2:05:02 GMT 1
Hi Karen welcome to the chat forum. Nice to have another writer on here!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2014 6:36:47 GMT 1
Welcome Karen
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Post by trixiepony on Aug 18, 2014 9:09:41 GMT 1
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