Posted by Shirley Anne on November 14, 2009
I have been offended tonight by someone writing me an email explaining why my comment to her blog was not published. I have to say that it didn’t come as a surprise because of her attitude toward me in the recent past has been one of coldness. I tried my best with her but you can only do so much. She had referred her readers to a certain website in regard to the subject she was presenting which for obvious reasons I will not disclose here but I wrote in reply to that article my own views on the subject which she felt she couldn’t post. It is such a shame that she has chosen not to do that. If you post something which has to do with a sensitive subject then you have to respect other people’s views as long as those views are not slanderous, vehement or abusive. You can’t hold one sided debates though. I will not be visiting her site in future.
Readers of my blog will always be treated with respect when they make comment as long as they are respectful in those comments.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on November 14, 2009
Well to be exact, we did that yesterday but it wasn’t to watch horses racing around a real track. My ex. and I had spent the afternoon dining out of town and after a short spell back home we went to our local pub where they were holding a ‘Race Evening’. For those unfamiliar with this quaint pastime the idea is to place a small fixed wager of one pound on one of eight horses that are running in an old recording and whose real identities are hidden. The races themselves were recorded many years ago at different venues but the commentary had been over-dubbed with the horses and riders given a number from one to eight. A rider could also be ‘supported’ for an extra sum and a horse be ‘bought’ for an extra sum too. If you were the ‘owner’ of a horse or rider that won you got to win a prize. Last night this was a bottle of sparkling wine. If you had backed a winning horse the prize would be determined by the total amount gambled on the race and the odds given against that horse just like at a real race event. All extra monies became the property of the organiser which this time was ‘The British Heart Foundation’, a charitable organisation. My ex. only won the first race as the ‘owner’ of the winning horse didn’t she? She won another race later. I also won an ‘owner’s prize in a later race and in the last race I had a winning bet too. So we came away with two bottles of wine and a small cash prize each. It was all in fun and we probably spent more than we received back in kind but as it was for charity it was worthwhile. It was a shame though that the event wasn’t as greatly supported as it had been a year ago.
Shirley Anne
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