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All of those events are imprinted in my memory. I can still remember things like the morning of Aldanitis race and the sun streaming through the living room window that morning ( why that race? I’ve no idea what the weather was like for other Nationals).And the stories didn’t really end with the...

Darn it. Forgot again. Busy making banana bread and manicuring the dogs nails.

I thought it was just a coincidence until they said on tv that the owner named his horses after favourite songs. I’m going to look up his other horses now…

He’s won on soft. And is also named after one of my favourite songs/videos. I’d narrowed him down to one of fifteen ( possibly more…).

I’ve noticed that Dr Newland has been running a lot on the flat recently albeit only winning if I don’t back them. Jedd O’Keefe seems to be a trainer that people ( eg JP) seem to send horses to to sweeten them up a bit given that his stable is in a nice part of Yorkshire.

How can anyone come up with a song like that and then create such a weird mesmerising video to go with it. I sometimes try to begin with my mind being blank ( not difficult that!) and then try to create something in that blankness that no one has ever thought of before. And all I end up with is...

Not sure if this link will work but I have never seen this video before even though The Dreaming is my favourite Kate Bush album. It popped up on instagram and I can’t stop watching it.

Was the electrolyte problem caused by being told to drink lots of water? Should they have perhaps given you something to counteract that?

Whisks are like culinary magic wands aren’t they. I thought I was the only person in the world who started making banana bread during lockdown and now I can’t live without it ( I’ve always got some bananas being ripened especially for it). But I only recently started using one of those big...

You really don’t. I was using up the last few spoonfuls of some instant cheese sauce ( still working my way through our pandemic stockpile…) and tried to eke it out by adding far too much liquid so it’s a bit of a gooey mess. However it means that next time I will have to make cheese sauce...

…meant Merrylegs. Realised it when I was making a cauliflower cheese tonight. Got him mixed up with the fairy in Sleeping Beauty…

Disappointed in this. I had a rather twee vision of all of Maxwells horses spending the rest of their lives in happy retirement, standing in a field under a tree chatting about ‘the good old days’ like Black Beauty and Merryweather at the end of the book. Sigh….

Why don’t jockeys suffer from jet lag?

Phew. Thought I ‘d put the mockers on Buick tonight by remembering to watch the races!

I’ve yet to start on The Guest which is supposed to be very good but absolutely bonkers. I’m still listening to podcasts about 1066 and the more I learn the more I enjoy the King and Conqueror. As Eric Morecombe said I’m playing the right notes but not necessarily in the right order. Many of...

I fought the law. ITV. Harrowing but brilliant. Will be winning all the awards imo.

Farage is now talking about when he is PM, not it. Maybe Starmer thinks if he has enough rope he’ll hang himself. My ex has read the Reform manifesto in detail and says it’s unworkable. And Farage, after being paid to give a talk to anti abortionists in America has now had an anti vacc doctor...

That’s ok then. I assume it’s only when they’re bay or brown. Trouble is I keep noticing grey tails now.

What colour is he? They were talking about brown horses with white tails on racing radio the other day and they reckoned that a lot of them were quirky.

Of course. I did actually know that at one time so my memory is going awol. I do remember thinking at the time, given that See More’s jumping was a bit iffy at times ( I remember him falling in a race once when I was getting ready to go out and was desperately trying not to cry which would have...