I always knew the only good thing about Easyjet was their cheap prices. I've never expected great
service, good food and short queues. However, I have always expected to actually get on a flight I
booked...until last week.
Flying back from Liverpool Airport to Berlin, I arrived at the airport around half an hour before
the final check-in time.
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Below is piece by Graham Cunningham (my favourite racing broadcaster despite him refusing to print
off my racing figures at Pontefract one day...claiming there was no printer in there) which was
buried in a recent Betfair piece.
If I ever end up on Mastermind then you can bet 1.
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Having not seen much British TV over the past three years and never having Sky Sports in England,
it's been great recently to watch Twenty/20 cricket on BBCiplayer. ...well until England got
knocked out.
I was only able to see the highlights package but that did for me as it brought back some good
memories.
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I was offered a job the other day in a 'hot' country. A few years ago I would have jumped at the
chance but as I already live in a foreign country and have no desire to leave here, I turned it
down.
The main reason was the person I am with has a job here which they enjoy and it is refreshing not
to hear somebody moan every evening about their job.
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I've always wanted proportional repesentation for the UK government ever since realising how the
first past the post system was bordering on the corrupt.
I was told years ago that it would never hapen because the political parties in charge would not
change the system that guaranteed them continuing power.
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Since my last blog entry I have become an uncle twice. My youngest brother Philip whose wedding I
very nearly didn't go to became a father - a boy called Jack while my sister has just delivered a
baby boy who will be called Jack.
My brother's wife had a relatively easy (if there is such a thing) birth but my sister had all
sorts of complications with the cord being wrapped around James' head and they eventually had to
cut the baby out.
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It is so hard getting back into horse racing after being out of it for so long. I had planned to
write a big preview of the Grand National with of course links to a
href="http://www.freebet.co.uk/events/horse-racing_aintree-grand-national.php"Grand National free
bets/a.br /br /Took me ages to write the following and I've done less than one fifth of the field
and the winner is not even there!
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Believe it or not, I used to be a horse racing writer and with Cheltenham starting on March 10 I
thought I'd get back into it despite not having written about the noble beasts for nearly two
years.
Horses come and go, the names change but the form figures remain the same. I have used John
Whitley's excellent figures ever since I was able to get them free when I worked on the Teamtalk
Racing Desk.
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I actually wrote a post of at Betfair about how to get more comments on your
blog and have realised I don't get so many on mine!
This is because I left out some important tips. I did this on purpose as the post was really about
using the comments settings in Blogger to make it easier for people to comment rather than the
other methods to attract more comments and also I didn't want to patronise people because the short
list below is common sense.
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