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Grand National Sweep - Enter Now

The Aintree Grand National, tomorrow Saturday at 16:15. 40 horses. 30 fences. Big ones. 4.5 miles (7.2 km in new money). The greatest national hunt race of the calendar.
Right. Nothing serious. Just a bit of fun. To take part in a sweep, just leave your name in the comments below.
The first 40 names will be [...]

Cheltenham updates

Day 1: Four bets. My Way de Solzen got me off to a great start winning The Arkle at 7/2. Hardy Eustace let me down for the Champion Hurdle but at least we had an Irish winner with the John Carr trained Sublimity. In the 4:00, Juveigneur got a nose past his opponent on the [...]

Doing a bet

Strange things happen in blogland. Just yesterday evening I was one of many to respond to her Ladyship’s throwaway question as to what would you do if you were the opposite sex for a week? On her recommendation I ended up reading JC Skinner’s classic post on gambling. Read it. It will open your eyes, [...]

Mistaken identity

I arranged a B&B for two distant relations at the weekend. Home from Spain for a suprise family thing, the surpisers needed a place to hide overnight from the suprisee.
Nora, being the excellent host she is, engaged them in conversation at breakfast. “Are - you - tra - vell - ing - a - [...]

What’s with the vegetables?

I just noticed that Google were displaying a different logo yesterday, February 14. They do this to mark special occasions like The Feathers in December, Egg Time in spring, Green Day in March, We Rule The World Day in July and so on.
So what’s this one about? A tomato wrapped in some sort [...]