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Sun is finally shining, heading off to The Curragh later for the races....better late than never but the summer has arrived (at least momentarily!!)...
 
Last four days have been absolutely fantastic. Giving my old man a bit of help with the garden this morning, then putting the feet up to watch the racing and the soccer.

Hope they get a good crowd at the Curragh - thouh I wouldn't be holding my breath.
 
Judging by her comments about her post-op pain on Facebook, she's already there, poor sausage.

Absolutely fantastic day down here - beautifully sunny all day, light breeze, bluest of blue skies, and some nice horses on show at Goodwood. I was an honorary owner courtesy of Keith and Daphne Finch, not rewarded by their grey gelding LOUIE'S LAD, who missed the break and finished l-a-s-t. I'm hoping to entrance them with the idea of taking on "Olive", the ICEMAN-BARRANTES yearling filly which Songsheet and I bred. Their trainer's John Bridger, and neither he nor the Finches will knock her about.

The day passed with the excellent company of other racing acquaintances, all of whom wedged up nicely (not me - the only thing I bet, or bid, for was something on the Countryside Alliance's auction, which I've got, and goes to Songsheet). It was lovely to see Terry Mills looking so much better after the difficult time he's been through, have a nice chat and share a good bottla wine with everyone, before driving home in the most glorious golden glow of the sun over the cut wheatfields, and dappling the woodlands. Goodwood really is the prettiest of courses - the view from the grandstands just shows gently rolling hills and woods - and not a building in sight. Truly glorious.
 
I didn't know SL had had her op. Best of luck to her and I'm sure she'll soon be back hurling abuse at us innocent campervan drivers!
It really is funny driving one as old and tatty as mine, when you go through the small villages you can see people working in their gardens go into instant "Gypo Alert" mode!
It's off to the boot sale at Biggleswade this morning and then on to the Classic Motorcycle show at Knebworth today.
 
We toook our cattle to the Frome Cheese Show yesterday for our last show of the current year and it was a truly glorious day. Pitch dark when we set off, of course (05.00..) but when we got there, it was light but fecking cold!

Anyway, reasonable but not exciting results for us and when we went home, passing the Bath & West showground, all thes eultra smart and presumably extremely expensive motorhomes were exiting as it was some Motorhome Show. I could get quite excited about having one of those more luxurious ones - it would make showing the cattle rather nice!
 
They don't let us park near those, they shove us off in a corner near the latrines! There are some outrageous snobs among them, believe me.
 
Spent most of the weekend throwing a tennis ball for my aunt's chocolate lab followed by tea and cakes sat out in the garden with a purring cat on my lab. The downside being I haven't seen any racing at all - still, guess you can't have everything :p
 
I have the hacienda to myself this evening so I'll probably crack open a bottla vino and/or some cans of beer and take in a film or two.

Further down the line, I'm due to move into digs a furlong or so from my workplace at the end of the month so should have plenty of time to catch up on all my fav DVDs etc. and not have to get involved in high-level negotiations for the remote control for the telly or DVD player.
 
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