After one false start and several nearly false starts (they run "wild", there's no stalls. So imagine the logistics of lining up 40 temperamental racehorses without a single one overstepping the mark) they finally went OFF!
... and ...
SILVER BIRCH WON!
(I lost.)
My one, Hedgehunter, came in 9th. Which is still pretty good considering only about 10 out of the 40 actually came in to the end. (That's right! Approx. 30 out of 40 horses chucked their riders.)
My other horse, who shall remain nameless was romping in SECOND, until the swine threw the jockey somewhere around the twelfth fence.
PS & Continuing the theme of useful/interesting blogs I found one called cure-cancer.blogspot which might be of interest to some people ...
And another one:
spotofcheese.blogspot
HI, Gledwood. I am glad you discovered my blog - I have never had a comment before.
ReplyDeleteYes - Ukraine had trouble with Russia's Gazprom.
But not to cause any confusion, I am not writing from Ukraine, I write from Michigan, USA. My wife and I have visited Ukraine twice to see our sponsored girls, Lena & Natasha.
It appears you enjoy horsie races. Where do you write from ? I am guessing G. Britain from the pound symbols - but where more specifically ?
thanks again for commenting,
sweet william
Hi Gleds; I put an each way bet on Philson ..Mick always loved having a flutter so did it in his memory (Phil being our grandsons name)....I said if it wins I'll donate the money to the Cancer campaign.......YIPPEEE it came in 4th at 100 to 1
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William:
ReplyDeleteThere seems to be such a fragile political situation out in Ukraine, not to mention the rest of the former USSR. Being on the cusp of two very different regions I can imagine the pull in opposing directions gets quite painful. As for Russia, I remember when the Iron Curtain came down many commentators in the West (like Time magazine) seemed to assume Russia was going to become part of Europe (not necessarily the EU but Europe anyhow). I'm no expert on Russian history but I've read Tolstoy, Dostoyevski, etc. If Russia wasn't "European" then I don't see why it would suddenly want to be now ...
Thanks for the comment you left at mine. I didn't realize I was the first to comment here. What an honour!
Ruth:
ReplyDeleteWhat a result!
Well, dodo bird.. this is the first you have mentioned about it. (not being from the s-t-a-tes/)
ReplyDeletePS. how come you have best blogs ONE and best blogs TWO? are the TWO's NOT AS GOOD as the ONE'S????
ReplyDeletejust curious dodobird.
ReplyDeleteracing horses now dodobird? u wanna become a rider or someting
ReplyDeleteCHEESE BLOGS? somebody is hard-up! jk
ReplyDeleteHeya, Gleds!
ReplyDeleteLOL at u beng 'kurt' (cobain) :D that cracked me up.
oooh & i think u r sooo lucky having eaten tones of indian food throughout ur life! i've never tried it! i need to work on that, huh? :) it SURE SOUNDS TASTY!!
oh & yes, my name is Edyta. As Edith in english :) But Edyta is in polish cuz i am polish. Aint that a mystery? :D LOL!
Thanx for stopping by & i'm gonna check that blog abt cancer. It's such an awful disease :(
Good Luck!
IVY: no way can I be a horse rider at least not a professional jockey. Surely you have seen them on tv. All are about 4 ft tall. I am much taller than 4 ft. So please desist from such .... uhh... my vocabulary fails me.
ReplyDeleteWell how would I know that GLED? You dont have a picture.
ReplyDeleteOh, of course, you expected me to gleam from your writing how sexy you are and.. I get it.
ReplyDeleteto "gleam" from my writing...?
ReplyDeleteThat means to shine, sparkle or glow, dear...
O Edyta, I see what you mean ..! I honestly thought your name was a pun. ... "Editor"...!!
ReplyDelete-& whaddya mean, Eds, you can "only draw women" ... just make their faces clumpier, their noses bigger, make them look generally uglier ... then: ta-dAA! You have pictures of men!!
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