At about 11:30 last night MySweetHeartTheFlirt suggested we spend today at the Randwick races. I looked at my 400 unread RSS articles, the growing pile of unanswered emails that required attention, an alarmingly long task list, and shook my head. "But there'll be a hot-spot you can connect to," she countered. I was therefore almost resigned to a day of trying to balance a laptop on my knees, while ... Read full entry

I was distracted moments ago by the presence of an ambulance over in the racecourse. This is slightly unusual since there isn't a race meeting today, when ambulance crews are in attendance, but I had noticed a couple of horses and jockeys training in one of the reserve tracks a little earlier on. Clearly a jockey had come to grief and it looked like he or she had taken quite a bad ... Read full entry