
Hovis
Hovis shared his weekly diary each Friday on the Horse & Hound website between 2008 and February 2025. Initially located on the popular H&H forum, he moved to the main website in February 2013. He published nine books, each to raise funds for his local equine welfare charity Bransby Horses. You can read all his diary entries below. H&H also published a final tribute to our much-loved equine contributor.
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘A very large horse with a very wide bottom’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I’m a feather-powered Ferrari’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘What the flip flop?’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I am traumatised, severely traumatised… and may not recover’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘My life was very nearly ended this week by an idiotic motorist’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Trying to hang on to my feathers and my pride’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I’d forgotten 24/7 means 24/7’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘The karma bus has come round and firmly run her over’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Do you need me to write this in braille?’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Operation “Prove Darwin Wrong” was recommenced’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I’m sleeping with one eye open’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘My field sounds like mother – prone to over exaggeration and a tad high-maintenance’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘It’s been a really bad week’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Featherism is still so rife’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Waiting for mother to get her leg over is like waiting for rain in the Sahara’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I know. I am a hero. You don’t need to tell me’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘In terms of bounce per ounce, I have a lot of ounces…’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: Working to achieve my black belt in the art of ‘spin and sod off’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: I fear the bin lorry might favour a munch on a feathered fancyBy Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘She’s my mother and if anyone is going to deck her it’s me’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I went from thinking she was actually quite normal to realising she is a ‘horsewoman’’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I behaved like a fat fighter on a chocolate promise’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘We have gone from synchronised swimming to prancing on ice’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Forget the Ark – I need a chuffing submarine’By Hovis Published
