Jo Milnes, 53, lives in the village of Thornholme in East Yorkshire with her husband, Richard, and son Tom, 25. She is also mother to Charlotte, 27I was a keen horse rider until I had my daughter, Charlotte, and my son, Tom.
Your confidence automatically drops when you’ve got somebody else to look after. I worried, ‘what if I fall off?’ If I got injured, who would take the children to school or look after them?
You think, ‘well if I don’t ride, it doesn’t happen’.When I stopped riding, my diet changed. I ate far too much bread - I'd have toast for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch; if we had an evening meal, I’d have bread with it so I could have a chip butty.
My husband, who I’ve been with for 29 years, was buying four or five sliced loaves a week, and then possibly topping that with a nice farmhouse loaf for Sunday lunch.
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