Is this yet another pure boondoggle or a well deserved rest, you might be asking yourselves? In fact, this is outright R&R plus the desire to escape from the minority of upwardly mobile unspeakables who would not know a filly from a folly but who go to Royal Ascot with the express intention of getting drunk as quickly as possible and then being violently sick. As we live no more than half a mile from the course, we have seen excesses which would almost make you want to vote Labour - well, perhaps not quite.
June 16, 2000