Boredom relief
Jan 25th, 2009 by Bert
I had a terrible day betting yesterday, and for no good reason. I was alone in the house, bored and with too much money in my account - a recipe for disaster. If I only ever bet when I had a strong conviction then I’d do very well, but I’m succumbing to “boredom relief” type betting too often at the moment - all of this said I’m well up for the last year. I won’t bet today - I won’t even look now that Hexham has been called off. It’s my punishment for the lack of discipline yesterday.
We’ve had fun and games in the house this morning. Eddie is a bit of an enigma - he goes swimming twice a week, and when he gets dressed afterwards he unnerringly puts his shoes on the wrong feet. It isn’t like it’s 50-50 - he gets it wrong 100% of the time, and we have a laugh with his swimming teacher about it. He got dressed on his own today and came downstairs with a proud grin on his face - he had both his shirt and trousers on back to front. It was particularly extraordinary because his shirt had buttons on, but nothing surprises me with Eddie - it put a smile on my face.
Jane’s reaction to these things is generally to sigh and say “oh he’s soooo like his father”. I could protest but she has hard evidence to back it up so I don’t go there - I go through long periods when I’m totally preoccupied and I don’t function at all well. One typical story concerns our Sunday papers. For two weeks running she had sent me out with instructions to buy the Sunday Times, and both times I had mistakenly come back with the Sunday Telegraph. On the third week she stopped me at the front door and pinned me to the wall - “read my lips - the Sunday Times, the Sunday Times…”. I was a bit shocked. I wandered down to the paper shop - only a three minute walk away - but still came back with the Telegraph.
Ollie, who is younger than Eddie, is good fun at the moment. He loves to dress up and he has his favourite superhero costumes, but this week he invented his own superhero called “naked guy”. We had a friend pop round in the week and we were having a civilised coffee in the living room when naked guy burst through the door, ran into the middle of the room and struck a Superman pose. He shouted out “naked guy” and then he was off. Great stuff.
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The Sunday Times story reminds me of that old story.
Two blokes on the building site. Fisrt one asks second one “can you go down shop, and get me 20 Malboro. If they haven’t got 20 Marlboro, get me something else instead, The second bloke comes back with a pork pie.
Let us jope Ollie does not take after his dad. The thought of “Bert” bursting into the betfair boardroom and doing his “Naked Guy” impression is too horrible to contemplate.
Hope you manage to get Cox to sign an extension - I can imagine dealing with him and/or his agent would be anything but boring !
I’ve said it before, but I’m so pleased, relieved and grateful that STFC now have a set of shrewd (and open) people involved in running the club. I’m sure your investment hasn’t brought a great deal of pleasure yet but Danny Wilson seems a good appointment and I’m confident the on field activities will soon improve. Do you manage to get to many games ?
bert, was it hard letting go of betfair the baby you created and going public david yu seems to be working wonders
Come on Bert.
Time for another post.
Hope you are keeping well.
Any thoughts on Saturday’s action, Bert, and did anything catch your eye last weekend (Cape Tribulation in particular)?
Paul Nicholls, for some reason, seems to have discounted I’msingingtheblues as an Arkle contender and, whilst he foots my ante-post portfolio, I was incredibly impressed by Doctor David last time out (despite Ferdy Murphy’s excuses for Kalahari King). The forecast 11/2 looks too big.
The one horse that really interests me today is Pressgang (2.35 Sandown). Paul Webber obviously thinks plenty of him and to win the way he did at Kempton, given his erratic jumping, was seriously taking. He’s worse off at the weights with Herecomesthetruth for a two length beating at Taunton, but Timmy Murphy wasn’t exactly hard on him, was he?