Bridle ways – a bit of history
For the last 15 or so years Myni and Bob Tilley have been running a social enterprise called Bridle ways (you can still visit the site here). In a nutshell, Bridle ways was about bringing horses and people together for mutual rehabilitation; horses helping people helping horses. And during the Bridle ways years the Tilleys had 80 horses and 40 people in and then out of their gates – but in and then out of their gates to a better place.
If Myni had her way she would have continued taking in horses forever (and she still absolutely believes in horses as just one of an infinite number of devices for facilitating people and actualising them on to a better place), but after bob’s confrontation with prostate cancer – and the fact that Myni had reached 70 years – with Bob not far behind (Bob insists he is Myni’s toy boy!) – the line had to be drawn somewhere and the horse part of ‘Bridle ways’ was brought to a close a couple of years or so ago. But, and it is a BIG BUT although Myni and Bob may have drawn a line under horses they have been gathering up all the wisdom and experience gained from ‘Bridle ways’ for the continuing benefit of the people who are already joining them in their new venture ‘take 9 lives at least …’ to help themselves, and then, in turn, to help others – a chain reaction.
