LETTERS

AGE IS JUST A NUMBER

ALTHOUGH I’d taken my horse on holiday in the UK, I had never ridden from place to place. So in January, my friend Jane and I decided to ride the South Downs Way, a 100-mile bridleway from Winchester to Eastbourne, at the same time fundraising for Digswell Place Group Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA), where I volunteer.

We organised accommodation for ourselves and the horses – and my husband John agreed to drive the lorry from place to