Hovis

The Destroyer

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

The Destroyer

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘My life was very nearly ended this week by an idiotic motorist’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Trying to hang on to my feathers and my pride’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I’d forgotten 24/7 means 24/7’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘The karma bus has come round and firmly run her over’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Do you need me to write this in braille?’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Operation “Prove Darwin Wrong” was recommenced’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I’m sleeping with one eye open’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘My field sounds like mother – prone to over exaggeration and a tad high-maintenance’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘It’s been a really bad week’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Featherism is still so rife’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Waiting for mother to get her leg over is like waiting for rain in the Sahara’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I know. I am a hero. You don’t need to tell me’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘In terms of bounce per ounce, I have a lot of ounces…’

Hovis’ Friday diary: Working to achieve my black belt in the art of ‘spin and sod off’

Hovis’ Friday diary: I fear the bin lorry might favour a munch on a feathered fancy

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘She’s my mother and if anyone is going to deck her it’s me’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I went from thinking she was actually quite normal to realising she is a ‘horsewoman’’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I behaved like a fat fighter on a chocolate promise’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘We have gone from synchronised swimming to prancing on ice’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Forget the Ark – I need a chuffing submarine’