I hadn't forgotten to reply Mrs Duck, Tikay pretty much described my mental week. Just woke up after 10 hours sleep, I didn't leave the phone by the bed so I had that thing of having no idea what time it was and I could easily get another 10 hours, just felt like I should try and get back to normal.
The prison was great, pretty pricey though if you were planning to put up a lot of people. The place is very much a boutique hotel, very fancy stuff in the room and nothing forgotten. I think the whole theme is cute and fun and of course the whole thing is close to the town centre.
My whole love of Oxford comes down to Inspector Morse. I've seen every episode at least a dozen times and when walking around I was thinking "He got murdered there". It is gorgeous.
I went to the Oxford Cup once, a fun poker event that attracts local enthusiasts, a lot of whom are students, as well as post-grads from London and other places to play a small buy-in tournament. I think it was happening a few days after we left actually but if anyone is from around there you should try it next year as it's good fun.
I managed a really terrible day 1 at Cheltenham followed by three small winning days. Tikay is right, I rarely suggest backing favourites at these big meetings as I have a long-term view that the value lies elsewhere. This year the people who did no study at all who just bet the favourite in every race had their best ever year.
Neil have you seen the film about the Palio in Siena? There was a very good Storyville on bbc4 a month or so back too. Not your traditional horse race (well actually, that's exactly what it is!), all the different angles strategies politics etc were very interesting I thought.
I'm lucky to still have hair at my age. I hadn't forgotten to reply Mrs Duck, Tikay pretty much described my mental week. Just woke up after 10 hours sleep, I didn't leave the phone by the bed so I had that thing of having no idea what time it was and I could easily get another 10 hours, just felt like I should try and get back to normal. The prison was great, pretty pricey though if you were planning to put up a lot of people. The place is very much a boutique hotel, very fancy stuff in the room and nothing forgotten. I think the whole theme is cute and fun and of course the whole thing is close to the town centre. My whole love of Oxford comes down to Inspector Morse. I've seen every episode at least a dozen times and when walking around I was thinking "He got murdered there". It is gorgeous. I went to the Oxford Cup once, a fun poker event that attracts local enthusiasts, a lot of whom are students, as well as post-grads from London and other places to play a small buy-in tournament. I think it was happening a few days after we left actually but if anyone is from around there you should try it next year as it's good fun. I managed a really terrible day 1 at Cheltenham followed by three small winning days. Tikay is right, I rarely suggest backing favourites at these big meetings as I have a long-term view that the value lies elsewhere. This year the people who did no study at all who just bet the favourite in every race had their best ever year. Sometimes the lettuce eats the rabbit. Posted by NChanning
thanks for your reply
Sounds like it's better to have one bad day at the races followed by three slightly better ones than the other way around.
Next time you come to Oxford you could scope out when they're filming something like Endeavour (is that the name?) and try and get yourself part as an extra or just walk around in the back of the shots in the streets there's often things being filmed especially around the colleges.
Anyway, hope you have a nice comedown from the races and keep up the good work!
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I'm lucky to still have hair at my age.
I hadn't forgotten to reply Mrs Duck, Tikay pretty much described my mental week. Just woke up after 10 hours sleep, I didn't leave the phone by the bed so I had that thing of having no idea what time it was and I could easily get another 10 hours, just felt like I should try and get back to normal.
The prison was great, pretty pricey though if you were planning to put up a lot of people. The place is very much a boutique hotel, very fancy stuff in the room and nothing forgotten. I think the whole theme is cute and fun and of course the whole thing is close to the town centre.
My whole love of Oxford comes down to Inspector Morse. I've seen every episode at least a dozen times and when walking around I was thinking "He got murdered there". It is gorgeous.
I went to the Oxford Cup once, a fun poker event that attracts local enthusiasts, a lot of whom are students, as well as post-grads from London and other places to play a small buy-in tournament. I think it was happening a few days after we left actually but if anyone is from around there you should try it next year as it's good fun.
I managed a really terrible day 1 at Cheltenham followed by three small winning days. Tikay is right, I rarely suggest backing favourites at these big meetings as I have a long-term view that the value lies elsewhere. This year the people who did no study at all who just bet the favourite in every race had their best ever year.
Sometimes the lettuce eats the rabbit.