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I am enjoying "The Tudors" at present. Sod the hystorical accuracy. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is extremely fanciable .

Also loved "Meet the Natives". I loved the bit where they were visiting "a traditional English tailors. It is called Asda" . It warms my heart to see that there are still people who are pure in heart and spirit.

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I’d have a curry and then get as many glasses of red wine down my neck as possible. Hopefully, I’d be completely out of it before the asteroid made contact .

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We have an ex racer which came from Newmarket and my daughter successfully reschooled her.She is bombproof in traffic and my husband, who is a non rider finds her easy to handle.

She enjoys being ridden and has adapted extremely well to her new life. She didn’t enjoy the racing lifestyle anyway so she’s much happier.

She has her little quirks and is not generally keen on men unless she knows them well.

Our horse needed a lot of time and patience but it has paid off .

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I just find Strictly Come Dancing so camp. I can’t take it seriously with all the face pulling, spangly costumes and posing.

Like UG, I might be tempted to watch if there was suitable eye candy . On the other hand, maybe not. No eye candy of mine would be permitted to wear those outfits .

X Factor is losing its appeal for me, as stated on another thread . There’s only so much Simon, Sharon, Lou Lou and Cheekbones I can take, never mind the over sensitive contestants.

Never mind, it’ll soon be time for "I’m A Celebrity, get me out of here" .

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I’m not a very touchy, feely person and kissing people is something I’m not generally comfortable with . I think it’s a very British trait, the stiff upper lip and all that.

However, when I’m fuelled with alcohol, I’m completely different. I’ll hug and kiss to my heart’s content and I have to say, it makes me feel very loved up . The reserve completely disappears. Maybe my inner self comes to the fore .

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I’m really fed up with The X Factor. I don’t want to hear another sob story or see another person cry.

You expect girls to cry but what is wrong with the young men of today, bursting into tears at the slightest thing I’m all for the metrosexual man but dear me .

And another thing (I’m on a roll now ), what is it with these kids "Music is my life", "It’s all I’ve ever wanted to do", "It’s for my family".
Jees, why don’t they just admit they want to get rich quick, be famous, marry a footballer, whatever, anything except those tired old cliches ?

As for "You’re on a journey", "You made that song your own", don’t get me started .

I’m off to lie in a darkened room then get myself a life .

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Going to see the brilliant (but can’t sing) Ian Brown in a few weeks time.

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Couldn’t agree more ! There is a touch of genius about the man. F.E.A.R. is one of my all time favourites. His albums are so polished, it just makes me wonder how long it takes to get the finished article beause his live voice is dreadful .

I saw him supporting the Manic Street Preachers a few years back. The audience were giving him terrible stick but he just came back at them with such arrogance, you couldn’t help but admire him.

I’m really excited about going to see Mesh in Bristol next month. I saw them for the first time last year and they were awesome. It’s criminal that they’re not better known in this country .

Also just got tickets to see Marc Almond in February. He’s an artist I admire enormously.

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Not as a rule birdy. Maybe that’s why I can view him that way . It must be frustrating to watch your hard earned cash going down the drain if his method doesn’t pay off .

I just enjoy watching racing and I know if Jamie’s there, I’ll be glued .

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As a fairly recent convert to racing, I’m not up on the technicalities of the sport. I just say what I see and I find Jamie Spencer very exciting to watch .

His style of holding horses up doesn’t always pay off but when it does, it can be almost breathtaking. He’s good for the sport and long may he continue.

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irrationally are usually one’s whose mode of movement is either invisible or worryingly unlike our own, or a combination of the two.
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snakes = no legs
spiders = legs tend to move to fast to see them
rats/small rodents = scuttle on tiny little legs (explains why bounding squirrels don’t bother us

also maybe this is why lions and hippos are much more dangerous (in broad terms), but we kind of don’t mind the idea of them, at least outside of a real-life one-on-one encounter…

Well I am petrified of rats and I speak as one who scuttles about on little legs . I don’t like mice either. There was some footage of a major mouse infestation in the States on Paul O’Grady’s show this evening and I couldn’t even look at the screen.

Spiders don’t bother me. I tend to be the spider remover in our house. However, there’s a lot of Daddy Longlegs around at the moment and I really can’t handle them . They fly about with seemingly no purpose or direction. They make me shiver.

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It’s the same sort of format as Jerry Springer. The audience is not as excitable as Jerry’s though.There are DNA tests, lie detector tests and a miriad of lurid problems .

He even has his own catch phrases "Get off your backside and find a job", "It’s me and the British tax payer paying for your kids", "It’s my name on the wall, let me speak", "You’re one of the bravest people we’ve had on this show". I don’t watch it that much .

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Good thread. I love music .

Best gig EVER – Faithless at the rather compact Newport Centre. I can only describe the experience as comparable to the highest high you can get without chemical assistance- and I’ve never dabbled .

Bands also seen:

U2 twice
Depeche Mode twice
A-ha twice
Manic Street Preachers
Oasis
Ian Brown
Queen – at Cardiff Castle when Freddie was alive
Duran Duran
Tears for Fears -most boring band I’ve ever seen
Recently saw Blackmore’s Night, the band Ritchie Blackmore leads. They do sort of Mediaeval rock, folk stuff. Hugely entertaining.
Marc Almond
Pet Shop Boys twice
Mesh

There’s loads of others but some too embarrassing to mention. Right now, I really like KT Tunstall, The Fray and The Hoosiers .

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I have to admit I find the Jeremy Kyle show strangely addictive .I can’t imagine why anyone would want to go on television admitting things like they don’t know who the father of their baby is but those DNA tests are cliffhangers .

I know…..I’ll get me coat

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Too poor to go this year . Nearest thing to a holiday was a few overnight stays in Doncaster .

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Good luck if you do buy a horse. Exracehorses can be retrained to do all manner of things. They just take a lot of love and patience.

I learned to ride on an ex-racehorse while I was at University

Welcome to the Forum fellow Cardiffian!

My husband is about to learn to ride on ours ! People in the yard where we keep her have been offering to teach him for ages and with our daughter now working away, he might as well have a go.

Thank you for your warm "Kaidiffian" welcome. The instructors at the Northern Racing College were forever taking the mick out of my daughter’s accent so when she said "taaraa", she gave them a copy of "Talk Tidy" .

Many thanks to all of you for making me feel at home xxx

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Cheers Reetpetite, I don’t remember her myself but no doubt someone on here will!

I know what you mean about the bank balance thing….currently considering buying a horse myself after a break from horseriding but the thought of the finances means I keep chickening out….bound to happen eventually though!

How did your ex-racer adjust to ‘normality’ just out of curiosity? And how did you go about retraining her?

It took a bit of time for her to settle and a my daughter spend considerable time reschooling her which she had to do after school and in the holidays.

I don’t ride myself but from all accounts she is relatively easy to handle but not a novice ride. Racehorses are ridden very differently to other horses and while my daughter has reschooled her, there are still certain do’s and dont’s you have to remember especially when using the reins. The horse has competed in several minor competitions and is especially good at dressage.

She has proved very expensive especially where vets bills are concerned. She has suffered two serious bouts of lymphangitis and according to the vets, she should not be alive now but for her fitness.

Good luck if you do buy a horse. Exracehorses can be retrained to do all manner of things. They just take a lot of love and patience.

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I have a rather elderly Wire Haired Fox Terrier. He gets confused, has poor sight and appears to be deaf until he hears a packet of crisps being opened or the rattle of saucepans in the kitchen then there’s no sign of a problem

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