Well Cumbrian Knight did the business, I've not checked the SP yet!
Alas, alas, poor Mathos the Kempton donkey Windchime, which my mate really favoured came in about 6th. But you should be in profit still.
Mac
Don't take me so serious either, I won't bite your head off you know!
Well not right off ! :wink:
I don't know if you had a bet on any of those good winners?
I'm certainly not going to suggest to any of you that you should take a bet. However, after a poor run, he turned up trumps. Before they started winning I was really pissed off but when I chanced a hundred on that winner last week and then a hundred more, I couldn't believe it.
I've put £500. quid aside out of the winnings to gamble with, got a place today, lost yesterday, but obviously if another win of a couple of grand comes up off him, it would be ideal. The laws of friendship and manners denote I will give him a cut as well, that is only fair when you win sums of money like this.
My missus really go's on a mad un when I gamble to be honest, she hates it! I'm not a gambler by nature either. Grand National or Cup Final and that is it. I mentioned before I had a spell with him a few years back and did ok. Then he went to States, and Dubai, lived there for a couple of years and he has spent the last few years in Spain and southern France. I got a call off him a few weeks back, then the tips started coming again! What do you do?
As far as I am concerned it is sheer luck!
But from experience with him, and as you can see yourself the luck has been good of late.
If I turn that £500 into £5K for Christmas I'll buy you all a meal!
I had Tuna/jacket potato...
Jacket wasn't very nice, but the company was excellent.
It was great meeting Clary for the first time, and McT convivial company, as always.
x
Okay I saw her off, last seen heading down the M6 into a heavy rainstorm.
I had intended to have roast beef and Yorkshire pudding with the trimmings, but the beef was finished so they offered me pork instead! Always up for something new, especially a culinary "first", I had a giant Yorkshire pud with roast pork and apple sauce. Marvellous.
Oh, and the company was v good too.
Yeah, but you left all your peripheral Yorkshire Pudding, McT!
Said you wouldn't manage it all...
Should have bet a fiver!
But then you would have finished it, just 'cos you is Scottish!
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smorgs wrote:Yeah, but you left all your peripheral Yorkshire Pudding, McT!
Said you wouldn't manage it all...
Should have bet a fiver!
But then you would have finished it, just 'cos you is Scottish!
x
Too right, doll. A fiver is a fiver. :wink:
How come I never got an invite
smorgs wrote:Jacket wasn't very nice, but the company was excellent.
What he's still wearing that old tweed thing?
the prince wrote:How come I never got an invite
Yours is an open invitation, Prince...
You KNOW that!
x
Link to an A2K-post from yesterday about that, from The Observer, posted by a certain Walter Hinteler
Sorry, Walter...
I missed it, I was talking to McT about it at lunch today.
x
Nothing to be sorry about :wink:
If any of you can get "More 4" TV channel, I'll just let you know that "The Harlot's Progress" is being re-shown at 9pm until 11pm.
This was on about three weeks ago, and was possibly one of the best things I'd seen on TV for a very long time.
All about Hogarth (famous artist and engraver - (Gin Alley? Harlot's Progress?) and his relationship with a beautiful young girl who is taken into prostitution.
Quite superb costumes, acting etc., and very sad.
I would highly recommend that you set your recorders.
Okay, check, your lardiness- sorry, lordiness.
I saw it, your Lordship, and agree completely, it was excellent.
In fact the only prog I've seen that's better was Slings & Arrows on Artsworld. It was the story of a Shakespearean company and each of the three series was about a different play they put on. First was Hamlet, then Macbeth and finally King Lear. It was superb - I'm so sad it's finished.
Glad you enjoyed it, Tarah.
I saw Slings and Arrows (well, not all - but I DVD recorded it, and what I have seen so far has been brilliant.)
Bleak House was another British classic that was on recently (with Charles Dance) and that was just outstanding.
Why can't they make more of this stuff?
I'm so excited. You're the only person I know (well ALMOST know), your Lordship, who's seen Slings & Arrows. I've been bubbling about it and no one has known what I'm getting so enthusiastic about. If it comes on again, people, please watch it.
A warning, it's rather near the knuckle in parts.
P.S. It's true but I only added the warning to get you to watch.
Tarah wrote-
Quote:A warning, it's rather near the knuckle in parts.
Pull the other one Babe- it's got bells on.
Have you seen the five, or is it seven by now, all I know is that they are growing, Babestation channels?
And Mr Grade has told the BBC that they have no future.
Lord Ellpus wrote:Glad you enjoyed it, Tarah.
I saw Slings and Arrows (well, not all - but I DVD recorded it, and what I have seen so far has been brilliant.)
Bleak House was another British classic that was on recently (with Charles Dance) and that was just outstanding.
Why can't they make more of this stuff?
Part of me thought this is Dickens-lite, but the rest of me enjoyed it immensely.
I've not got the Arts Channel for the other, just a basic package on cable.
And a Freeview box with my DVD recorder. Maybe I should re-check the cable station offering- I almost never use it, and they are always adding new bits.
