I have a favourite program called Countdown, involving words and number games. Whenever there are any race meetings, they pull my program and we have races for days on end.
If you can't fight them, join them! So yesterday we watched Ladies Day at Ascot, which also has the biggest race of the week, the Gold Cup.
The big surprise of the day came when the queen's horse won the Gold Cup. It's the first time in at least 300 years that the reigning monarch has won the cup. The thing is, the queen is the person who presents the cup to the winner, so they had to rope somebody else in to present it to her!
The queen was clearly excited when her horse, Estimate, crossed the finishing line:
Prince Andrew presented the cup to his mother:
Estimate is a magnificent horse, there's no doubt about it...
Do you remember the hobbit structure Peter and I came across on one of our walks around the village?
Yesterday I mentioned it to Hilary and she said they also came across a similar structure when walking around their village. They decided it was some kind of bunker from WW II.
They have a group taking French lessons with a local woman and Hilary asked her what it was.
Peter was right all along: It's a water pump. We live near mountains and there are springs all over the place. These pumps take water from the springs and distribute it to the villages.
I suppose it's easy to assume the thing is a bunker, considering that this area had a very strong resistance movement in the last world war...