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Plus 12 and drizzling when driving in..15mm overnight.

Ciaran Gethings was in this morning to ride out..

Winters here..the breakfasts have started again..

Rod and Mary Evans and Rob and Helen Williams were here for a 'morning on the gallops and breakfast'.. Todays was a Charity auction prize.

Richard Farquhar, who seems to spend much of his life walking for Racing Welfare was here third lot to see his Turf Club horse Broomfield Present.

Richard Chugg of Weatherbys Hamilton was here late morning to discuss my Insurance premiums!!

Maya my PA has gone on holiday!! Marbella apparantly..

Mat informed me first thing that his favourite food is so popular that 75 billion of them are are eaten every year around the world..I added that I thought Pork was more popular?

Mat was on a boat trip on the Thames in London and he went past Big Ben.

His cockney guide told them ‘ Big Ben was named after Sir Benjamin Hall, who oversaw the installation of the Great Bell. We are grateful it was not named after his brother Richard.’

Said in a deadpan voice, it was some seconds before the chuckles started.

I don't know if this needs explaining for some non English readers.