Where Is Everyone?

[Purwell]

Are you all having a party without me?

I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highways

[IanDavies]

Purwell, if you’re trying to cast yourself as the uber “billynomates” of the Lounge, allow me instantly to disabuse you of that notion.

I am the Arkle/Frankel of “billynomates”-ness and there’s never been a party I wasn’t invited to and wouldn’t have attended anyway even if I had been (in obvious administrative error).

I hate parties, I detest people.

I have no friends – none, zero.

In direct answer to the question: “Where is everyone?” after stocking up for the weekend at Waitrose, I’m at home in North Hampshire.

It’s a warm enough sunny morning, the sun is shining through the French window, I’m crashed out on my lazy boy, typing this posting on my phone, I’m in glorious isolation and I am looking forward to watching today’s and tonight’s racing, some on ITV, some on my phone, all of it on mute.

As usual I will try to stay awake until gone midnight for all the USA racing, even the west coast stuff, and as usual I will no doubt fall asleep circa 11pm and catch up with what I missed on YouTube tomorrow.

I am "The Horse Racing Punter" on Facebook
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"

[Wilts]

I’m currently in Fuerteventura for a week (come home Wednesday). Managed to put some bets on and will watch a few races on my phone.
😎👍

[Gladiateur]

I’m in Wetherspoons, having breakfast and a rather splendid pint of Adnam’s Ghost Ship.

[Purwell]

I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highways

[IanDavies]

Fuerteventura, pub breakfasts – and I thought I had defined luxury living with my Waitrose small baguette filled with hand-carved (by Chezza) slices of Waitrose extra mature cheddar just now – champagne Tory lifestyle for Wilts and champagne Green-ialist (you can see what I did there) lifestyle for Gladders!

I am "The Horse Racing Punter" on Facebook
https://mobile.twitter.com/Ian_Davies_
https://www.facebook.com/ThePointtoPointNHandFlatracingpunter/
It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"

[He Didnt Like Ground]

I’m at home , back to work Monday , got a cold and a fair few betting slips with Gulliver on them ….kettle just brewin and I’m listening to LBC talking about Putin using nukes ..

Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026

[Richard88]

I was up early for the F1 qualifying from Japan, went for a mid morning coffee and cake in one of the two independent cafes between whom I rotate my business and I’m currently stood outside a changing room with some similarly bored blokes on their phones.

[gamble]

Streets full of people, all alone
Roads full of houses, never home
Church full of singing, out of tune
Everyone’s gone to their room.

Is it possible to hide behind the sofa ?

NO !

[Marginal Value]

Here I am. At home today.

My wife says I need to keep fit. I asked if Rambling would be a good thing. She said: “Yes”.

Here is a Ramble. So you have to blame her, not me.

What am I doing, right now? Just my regular stuff.

Protecting against my inadequacies being released to the world at large.

This exercise I perform each day. Berating the horse racing of “The Past “ for pushing off without my permission and taking lots of good things with it. Like a mentally and physically tough straight ten furlongs on lovely turf to determine a Champion, rather than the “The Present” being a weedy, curvy ten furlongs on frequently hopeless ground. Like a plethora of tough and artistic jockeys (I was 11 years old when I first learned about the hero of the age, Fred Winter), trainers and owners. Like the draw being numbered from left to right making life easier to avoid form analysis mistakes. Like Timeform Annuals; sheer idleness in not bothering to produce a perfect blend of science and artistry, when the information to do so is sitting right of front of the perpetrators all the time! The monetisation of useful data; APEX stallion data is no longer free, but Bill Oppenheim is a good guy and deserves the money!

Another daily task. Transferring todays selected racing data into my various spreadsheets to calculate if there are any value bets.

Digitising my late father-in-law’s photographs from North Africa and Italy in the early 1940s and editing them to improve their clarity. Eighty-three done from this album, with two hundred and fifty two to go. Six albums going back to 1920 done, with another five post-war to do, ready to distribute to the far-flung relatives. In this arena, the past would have been a real nuisance, with huge postal costs (very weighty albums) and high chances of lost items, plus many arguments along the lines of: “ It’s my turn to have the album of1960s holiday pictures. Not yours!”

Doing the monthly update to my wife’s (and her chums) website about their string quartet. It has become more interesting since a young whipper-snapper challenged me to learn HTML and CSS to build the website properly, so that I understood what was going on, and could therefore understand how to change it. It does beat the “modern” way of using some huge conglomerate’s drag-and-drop website build program online. The HTML/CSS method has the added benefit of using about 20% of the code of the drag and drop method and hence runs much faster; pages load more quickly.

Listening to Paul Carrack. Starting the day with: Eyes of Blue, The Only One and Where would I be, sets my brain to rights.

[gamble]

I am sitting in a poorly lit room. It’s 2.20am and just wondering why my head is still slightly banging from the excesses of yesterday !
I am no teenager !

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