Ascot 2005

After all the hype it had arrived - ASCOT! In York. Never was the North / South divide so pronounced as the national papers (and their London writers) coverage: if they could have taken pictures of us all with whippets and flat caps I am sure they would... but with the sun coming out to shine on Friday, a good day's racing - with a modicum of success - we had a good time. I got very badly sunburned and Tim looked dashing in his wedding outfit. Nice. With champagne @ £60 a bottle I was relying on my 100-1 to romp home and net me £670 but sadly it was not to be. After the 1 mile walk back to mine (in bare feet at the end - rather ignominous but there you go) we followed up with a BBQ at ours which was good fun. We even left some out afterwards for the hedgehog. Now that's Ascot.