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Plus 4 and dry when driving in.. Clear skies!

We met my three new grand-daughters last night. They were moved to Swindon last week so it great to finally meet them.

Healthy and well and probably another 10 days and they will be going home.

Supper on the way home at The Waterside Bar and Kitchen.

The latest on Lauren Hawkins.

“Following her fall and subsequent head injury at Worcester Racecourse on 1 September, amateur jockey Lauren Keen-Hawkins has been transferred from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham to the Gloucester Royal Hospital where she continues to make steady progress with her rehabilitation.

She is mobile with assistance, and although confused from time to time, her mental functioning is improving.  Lauren’s family anticipate she will be discharged from hospital in the relatively near future to continue her recovery at home and with Out-Patient Therapy from both the NHS and the Injured Jockeys Fund. They would like to thank everyone for their kind messages of support for Lauren.”

Since Lauren has moved to Gloucester many of my team have been to see her.. Great to hear of her progress..

We have a runner at Southwell today where they are watering.. Nottingham's race meeting (15 miles down the road) was waterlogged and abandonned yesterday!

Gerard Mentor runs there today and for my thoughts please click here..

The Womens T20 World Cup starts today..

Taking yesterdays story about Big Dick ..

This was in Tuesday 'Times'... Peter Wheatley sent this over..

'The death at 79 of the Fleet Street legend Revel Baker, once managing editor of The Mirror, brought an email from a colleague recalling that at 6ft 8in, Barker was one of the few who could look down on Robert Maxwell.

One woman cheekily asked him if everything was in proportion. 'Madam' Baker said.. 'If it was, I would be 9ft 6in tall.'

Peter commented after sending.. Being 5ft 4in I have been asked on numerous occasions of there was any thruth in the old maxim of 'big man big dick, little man all dick'..

Peter apparently has always refrained form responding!!