BIKES, CAMERA, ACTION – 5 TIPS FOR BETTER CYCLING PHOTOS

Posted on April 24, 2025 at 1:04 pm by The Insurance Emporium

We’ve all been there; you’re out on an amazing cycling trip, the weather’s behaved itself, you’ve taken in some fantastic views, and you’ve enjoyed the ups as much as the downs. But then you get home, settle down to look at your photos and everything feels a bit…. flat? The photos on your screen just […]

Tags: Bicycle, camera, photographic equipment


Your Story – Geoff & Franko, Horse Insurance

Posted on April 24, 2025 at 10:44 am by The Insurance Emporium

A white horse called Franco stood up

Our customer, Geoff, talks us through his recent experience with The Insurance Emporium when he had to make a claim. Background Geoff told us all about his wife’s horse, Franco, who up until recently was used for riding. Geoff’s wife describes Franco as “such a gentleman. He’s lovely and a handsome boy. He’s just like […]

Tags: customer testimonial, equine insurance, horse, horse insurance


Your Story – Peter & Millie, Dog Insurance

Posted on April 23, 2025 at 11:12 am by The Insurance Emporium

Caring for our pets is a rewarding and joyous job as a pet parent. Having a dog, in particular, is a good reason to get out and about which is good for our mental health as well as theirs. That’s why, when they get poorly, it can be a worrying time. Here, we caught up […]

Tags: customer testimonial, dog, dog ownership, pet, pet health


HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT – 10 OF THE MOST COMMON CAMERA ANGLES AND WHEN TO USE THEM

Posted on April 22, 2025 at 2:54 pm by The Insurance Emporium

Frame made of hands at wheat field at sunset

People have been using photography to express themselves for nearly two hundred years, ever since Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the first blurry photograph in the late 1820s. The old cliché that a camera doesn’t lie, comes from the fact that a photograph captures an image as it is, with no input from the photographer – […]

Tags: camera, camera photography, photographs, photography


Your Story – Celia & Ethel, Cat Insurance

Posted on April 17, 2025 at 3:04 pm by The Insurance Emporium

A cat called Ethel sat in her bed on a chair with the sun shining through a window

Background When growing up and until I moved out of home, we had a family cat, but Ethel is the first cat/pet of my own. I got her a year after I moved into my first home. Ethel is extremely loving and loyal; she is like my shadow. It’s no exaggeration to say that whenever […]

Tags: cat, cat insurance, cat ownership, customer testimonial, pet, pet health


6 Common Horse Insurance Mistakes You Might Be Making

Posted on April 11, 2025 at 1:05 pm by The Insurance Emporium

Portrait of a beautiful horse standing in a wooden stall in the stable on a summer day. Stables and livestock. Farm.

People choose to take out horse insurance for several reasons, often to have cover for the unexpected. As we know, horses are naturally curious creatures and if left to their own devices can get into all sorts of mischief, which is why horse insurance can give you peace of mind. However, while we know that […]

Tags: horse, horse insurance, insurance mistakes, veteran horse insurance


The UK’s most (and least) affordable dog breeds 2025

Posted on April 8, 2025 at 1:18 pm by The Insurance Emporium

One of the things that has stood out during the time the UK spent in and out of lockdown, was how pet ownership rose during the pandemic – with an extra 3.2 million households across the UK buying a pet from March 2020 to March 2021. Puppy demand increased the average cost of buying a […]

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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HORSE INSURANCE – OUR ULTIMATE GUIDE

Posted on March 28, 2025 at 4:20 pm by The Insurance Emporium

Chestnut horse tied up to a fence post.

With years of providing specialist horse insurance behind us, we understand the importance of keeping your horse healthy, happy and safe. Unfortunately, animals don’t have access to the kind of health care that we do, and vet’s fees can soon add up. In 2024 our average horse insurance claim for digestive issues was £922, the […]

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TACKLING THEFT AS AN ANGLER

Posted on March 17, 2025 at 5:18 pm by The Insurance Emporium

Having your fishing tackle stolen has to be one of the worst experiences you can have as an angler. As any keen fisher knows, the gear doesn’t come cheap and a single rod and reel could be well into the hundreds of pounds. Money aside, there’s also the emotional attachment we have with some of […]

Tags: fishing, fishing equipment, FIshing insurance


ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HORSE WORMING

Posted on March 7, 2025 at 4:16 pm by The Insurance Emporium

Horse is looking out of a stable on a farm where horse riding and equestrian sports are taught.

Worms are an inevitable fact of life for horses, and the vast majority of them have some level of infestation. Worm eggs, such a tapeworm, are usually ingested from infected pasture, they then develop into worms inside the horse’s gut or lungs before being passed out onto the pasture via faeces which can then infect […]

Tags: equine, horse, horse health, horse insurance


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