In the shop Me wallet’s as empty as me grandfather’s grave. Good fek! Don’t say grave robbers! No. He’s not dead. In a neighbour’s kitchen I wrote on it with an indisputable marker by accident. You mean indelible marker. Yeah. But if you can’t rub it out it’s indisputable too. Right? When the starter at [...]
I’ve written before about betting on horse racing before and even ran a sweep for the Grand National a couple of times. In the post linked I warned of keeping a tight rein of both horse and wallet, so I’m not getting back the whole right-wrong discussion here (so don’t go jumping in with mug’s [...]
I came as such a shock. Day two of the Cheltenham Festival cancelled. High winds were causing havoc to the hospitality areas. Tents were lifting like Marilyn Monroe’s dress but the view of what was beneath was more like Britney Spears getting out of a limo – not something we ever wanted to see. The [...]
It went well. By my standards anyway. I hid the car around the back, locked the front door, turned off the lights, phone and radio, and settled down to work. It’s surprising how much you can get done without distractions. I left word with the dog to tell any neighbours who called to invite me [...]
While most of the country were glued to the Kerry-Dublin match a few of us had another great sporting occasion to entertain us – Ireland’s one and only all-weather track in Dundalk held it’s very first meeting. For those who aren’t familiar with the terminology, an all-weather track has a sand surface as opposed to [...]
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 [...]
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