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It strikes me that the racing bubble is inflated to bursting point, so wouldn't be surprised if some/several courses are struggling I've enjoyed all the racecourses I've visited (about half of them) as each is unique - vive la difference - but Redcar is not especially appealing, though I...

Wrong thread :) That has an interesting answer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15458633 I heard woodpeckers 'drumming' just the other day: a remarkable sound

A sad tale indeed. Given that the bodies weren't found until a week or more after they died suggests to me that the wife acted as full-time carer for her desperately ill husband without the third-party 'home help' that one might have expected a wealthy couple to employ: maintaining independence...

Charlie Woods was a jockey and contemporary of Fred Archer; and being born in Hull, just down the road from Beverley presumably explains the race's change of name The Ebor Meeting is over-chock with Group 1s and I'd have preferred the G2 Hungerford Stakes - run just a week or so earlier - to...

Love grows where my Rosemary goes Or as my 10 year old kid brother was fond of hollering during their several week stay at No.1 on Top of the Pops Love grows up Rosemary's nose :) A cherished song I hadn't heard for a long time until recently is Have You Seen Her by The Chi-Lites

Dubai Disneyland Primark 'A night out with the lads' Re: Wetherspoons. Tim Martin is a jerk but I've a soft spot for the pubs, mainly because they tend to be renovations of fine old buildings, therefore saving many an architectural gem from demolition. So, one can sit and soak-up a cheap pint...

Wot, no cricketers? :oops: Don Bradman and Shane Warne Legendary status is given a leg-up by having a distinctive and memorable name, epitomised by Lester Piggott, Stirling Moss, Babe Ruth & Cassius Clay/Muhammed Ali; and a George Best was never destined to grind out his career with Accrington...

An impossible task indeed but three 'all time fvourites' are: Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Of those mentioned, Forever Changes would be high on my list too as would Highway 61 Revisited. As for The...

My sole visit to a Sandown NH meeting happened to be that memorable day. I was in London for an extended-family reunion and managed to excuse myself from the forced jollities for an altogether more relaxing afternoon in Esher. The train from Waterloo was abuzz with anticipation. It was a grey...

An innocent nursery rhyme compared with this: 'hurry down the chimney tonight' ooh Matron!

The Weatherby's crudity filter must have been malfunctioning when Fircombe Hall was submitted; that or they had a teenage intern manning it that day He's been regularly opening his legs and showing his class around the gaffs for several years The sire is Charming Thought...

Nah, he's not Hitler; the way Trump juts and struts reminds me far more of Mussolini

Plus ca change - Jonathan Swift nailed it 300 years ago: It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. Despite my dislike of Badenoch and Trump, I have to admit to a perverse pleasure following their elections this week in witnessing the...

It's still there this morning, assuming it's the same 2mil I'm with the 'shy republican' theory too, unfortunately First State polls to close are Indiana and Kentucky around 10pm our time, with several more including the 'swing states' of Georgia and North Carolina around midnight I'll hang...

Having enjoyed catching-up with the latest Midsomer Murders romp I turned over to Sky News around 10.25pm in order to watch the Paper Review, only to be confronted by Trump in full-blown rambling stream-of-consciousness mode. Twenty surreal minutes later I switched off: more than enough. Trump...

Well, it will hopefully be a little less rocky now that the French public have seen sense and ganged-up against the far right, though there will undoubtedly be weeks of turmoil to come before a stable government is formed Am I guilty of exaggerating Blighty's influence in Europe by thinking...

The whole of Derbyshire is now Labour, some result. Glad that tit Michael Fabricant has lost nearby Lichfield Of Conservatives who've lost, sorry to see Tobias Ellwood and Robert Buckland go: decent coves both

Yep, thanks for the regular updates ID I started the night on BBC but my poor old peepers couldn't handle the hideous purple colour scheme they chose; it was like watching the results unfold whilst on an acid trip. So it was over to Sky News - which I generally prefer anyway - who had the...

No worries, the photogenic Ms Niblett did you proud Shame about Farage and Anderson but otherwise a cracking night(y)

It's a weak market but LibDems 60+ seats is now around 1.5 which suggests they might do well in the 'blue wall' It'd be just grand if they become the official opposition