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I am like a border collie who needs to be mentally and physically stimulated to be happy.

Thank you. mentally and physically stimulated to be happy. Hello everybody and welcome back to my podcast, Esme's Country Life.

And happy New Year.

This is actually my first episode of 26, although I am sneakily filming this in 2025. But talking about

2025, we're actually going to be holding myself accountable because last year I told you guys

my New Year's resolutions. We also did this the year before. So you know what? This is working

well. It's working well. We're going to be going through them all and seeing if I

completed them or not. But before we begin, I just want to say a huge thank you to the sponsor of

the podcast, Red Post. Red Post is an equestrian and country store based in the UK, but they also

ship all over the world. And right now, they have an incredible festive sale on. So go and

check it out while at last they have

some huge discounts on so different products to maybe have a little bit of Christmas money remaining

or maybe you're thinking we're going into the new season I need to maybe get a new helmet

or get some new bits go and check it out at redpost equestrian.co.uk. Anyway, let's get into today's episode. Now,

I apologize. I am going to be grabbing my phone and getting it up because I'm prepared. I have,

I actually have not only my 2025 ones, but also my 2024 ones as well, which is really interesting

to see year on year what my kind of things are. So the top one

actually for my 2025 news resolutions is to work on Joey's loading and groundwork and to be

able to load him into the horse box in less than five minutes, which I can now say we have done

so that's actually very exciting.

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