There are only a few weeks every year or so, that make one pause for serious thought. There have been even fewer in lockdown because
Why I hear you ask, do you have a picture of a walk-in medical vaccine fridge, adorning your racing website? Because gentle reader, I and
15th Jan 2021 MESSIRE DES OBEAUX beat PROTEKTORAT by 4½l LTO and it might well be that the latter will improve considerably for going left-handed
In these troubled times, I wonder whether we are worrying too much. So I am happy to say that there is not much to report.
With dreams of eight maids a-milking probably best forgotten, from the window of my office at the Chateau d’If, I can see the Starlings getting
Christmas has officially begun with the welcome delivery from the Pompey cousins of a side of Smoked Salmon. This gift will hopefully mark the beginning
I am appalled. The French, it turns out, sleep 5 minutes longer than us, and work a full hour less. They also do less care
The week has not gone quite as well as one could hope. Nil By Mouth on Day 1, followed on Day 2 by one of
Both the mighty O’Tool and I were sadly awry yesterday with our selections. By 3:00 pm I was so despondent I was actively thinking of
It’s been an interesting week, with a client winning an award for his work during the pandemic as Communicator of The Year, and he later
It is one thing to call the weather spot on, but jeepers the TV pictures by the time 4:00 pm arrived were enough to make
Yesterday was close, but no coconuts, although there was a huge amount of cheering here at the Chateau D’If for Beau de Brizais, who opened
But how lucky am I, to have known people worth missing? The week started badly with news that Tim Hales had died. He was the
On Thursday Lockdown 2 started. The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker, all remain open and three Huzzahs for them. That isn’t however the case
A close friend of mine, the Time-Life photographer Peter Jordan popped in for a coffee today. As a front-line photo-journalist, he’s seen and done much
A dreadful start to the new season yesterday, and my fingers are crossed that I’ll get my “jumping eye” in soon. I have spent a
A great chum called me this week to tell me the exciting, indeed brilliant news, that he had had a 40/1 winner in Ireland. He
Work for some this week will have been, very literally, all hands to the pump. Ascot’s CEO will have been hard at work organising his