Lets Gamble

Well I was at the grumpy old mens card table last night in the local playing the poker.Great craic ,nice few pints and a roaring stove sweating the bejaysus out of us.There were the usual ritual seat and table shifting and grumbles 'n groans 'n moans but thats half the craic.I lost about 10 euro so I still have the shirt on me back.

One of the older lads was telling us about this ole dear he used to know who ended all, and I mean every sentence with "thanks be to God." Things like "it's a lovely day today thanks be to God." "I'm just back from the shops thanks be to God." Anyway he was saying he was outside her house admiring a new wall she had built for her garden and she was giving out stink about the builder saying "do you know how long he took to build that? 6 bloody months,thank be to God."

Right I've started to have a little flutter on the horses.Well I've always had a flutter to be honest but now I'm going to track the progress and see how well i do over time.As Groucho Marx once said "I've worked my way up from nothing into an extreme state of poverty."I have about 56 euro in my betfair account so I'll be just doing minimum bets 4 euro which I will increase if I ever get over the hundred mark.First bet yesterday came up at 11/4 a horse called Rum Jungle at folkstone so up to 66 today.I've picked two today at Goodwood 15.45 Patavium Prince 11/1 and 16.20 Purple moon 8/1 so with a bit of luck we will be up a few bob "thanks be to God"