The Gambler

Hey hey hey Beautiful Sunday...

Sunday morning, up with the lark
I think I'll take a walk in the park
Hey, hey, hey, it's a beautiful day
I've got someone waiting for me
And when I see her I know that she'll say
Hey, hey, hey, what a beautiful day.

Yesterday was pretty good as well.

Got up early. Spent most of the morning doing stuff, jobs, internet, emails, etc...

Watched a bit of sport, even The Morning Line. It was not that bad mainly as Big Mac was absent. The mail with the femail tipped  a winner, which was not unusual. Caught a little Cricket AM. Spoke to my buddy Paul.  Exchanged a few more emails with email buddies. Caught a bit of the rugby sevens. Very entertaining game to watch. Tidied up a bit more. Put the washing out. Breakfast etc... Helped Mrs G. with shopping. Cut grass. More sport. Golf/Tennis/etc... Lunch. Few  rays in Garden.

Settled down to watch Cup Final. Very Good. Chelsea won 2-1. Djokovic got knocked out of tennis. Murray plays later today on BBC Terrestrial.

Did more jobs. Gardening. Washing. Making beds. Ordered recycling bin from SODC. This one is for Garden Waste. That will keep me busy when it arrives.

Dinner. Steak. TV. Watched the Hitler drama. Early night.

Sun shining already. More sport today. Tennis. Rugby. Golf. 20 20 and Spanish Football. Don't know what else I will do with rest of day. We will start with breakfast, bath, and gardening. Probably some tidying up.

That will do for now. Let us go and see what is happening on the other site.

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Four in the morning.

Yesterday. Did about eight hours work in the morning, including catchup with Gordon to discuss "The Sports Exchange". http://testpunt.ning.com/ Who will become member number 50? It could be YOU. The suspense is killing me.

In the afternoon flitted between watching sport and sunbathing. Mrs G. got home late, and I made a BBQ. Not a lot on TV, so went to bed early.

Usual agenda today. Tennis/Golf/Football/Rugby. The highlight being the FA Cup Final between Chelsea and Everton at 3pm. Chelsea 2 Everton 1. Hope it's a good game. Some fairly boring racing on C4. Might watch The Morning Line later, and hopefully a few people will pop into the chat room on http://testpunt.ning.com/  from 7.30am to discuss today's racing and the rest of the sport.

Will have a get together with Mrs. G. later to get ourselves organised. Hopefully get a few jobs on the go, and start making some progress. In the background there will be some sport going on, and soaking up a few rays. Feel the need to do something a bit more exciting, but not sure what. a bit down in the dumps as found out last night buddy number one sentenced to two years, after "borrowing"it from friend number two without asking, depositing six figure sums into BF and then losing it on BF Casino. Bad news all round. Oh well "time is a great healer", and buddy number one has plenty of that at the moment. Obviously other issues to resolve, but I guess I am staying out of it.

Back to bed for a while, and then hopefully up to read the newspapers, and watch"The Morning LIne".

Bye for now.

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It's 10am already.

The Golf coverage has started on Sky already. Anthony Wall and Anders Hansen lead at 8 under. Good to see Mister Wall playing well. Like most golfers he always comes across as a nice bloke.

Tennis started on Eurosport, and probably available on BBC Interactive as well. The Murray match is being advertised on Eurosport as a 5pm kick off. Not sure how accurate that will be, We shall see. That match will probably end up being shown on BBC terrestial, probably BBC2. Watch it on BBC terrestrial not satellite, and take advantage of those six second delays to nick a few quid off our European cousins.

Finish off yesterday. Got back from docs. Lunch. Jobs. Sport on TV. Dozed off. Caught a bit of sun. Good for my skin. Finished off my article for The Secret Betting Club. All about sports trading One Day Cricket.  Last months article was about cricket trading in general, particularly 5 day test matches.

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More sport. Crazy Twenty20  game between Essex and Sussex, which somehow Sussex managed to win. It was one of those games you could write a book about, but I just don't have the time at the moment.

In between managed to BBQ a spatchcock chicken, and eventually finish off my article. Bed at midnight. Up at 5am. It has gone ten and I've not stopped in over 5 hours. Gordon arrives at 11am for quick business catchup, and I still have to get the hoover out.

So much sport today. Golf.Tennis/one more twenty20 match at 5.30pm. Murray match about 5pm. Wales play Estonia at 7.30pm, and there is Rugby Union on at 8pm.

Well I guess we have caught up.

Over on the other site we now have 49 members. Who will have the honour and distinction of being member number 50. It will happen today. Could it be you? Something to tell your grandchildren about when you leave them the millions you made, by getting involved in this exciting project: The journey of a lifetime. Go for it now. It only takes two minutes, and won't cost you a penny.

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Bye for now.

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Friday 29th May.

Oh what a beautiful morning. Oh what a beautiful day? I've got a wonderful feeling, everything's going my way.

Sun is shining already. I have been out in the garden doing jobs. A fox attacked our rubbish overnight so I had to tidy that up. Indoors the washing up has been done, and rubbish is being sorted as I write. Mrs. G. has had her wake up call and cup of tea, and is ahead of the game, which is just as well as she has to drive to the station shortly to catch the 7.30am to London. God knows what time she will be home, but the BBQ will be on before she gets through the door.

It's just gone 8am. I had to pop out for 5 minutes, to put a few more newspapers in the recycling bin. Normal rubbish men have been already, and they seem to have left half the rubbish all over the front lawn.

I know it's a nice day, and the boys are in a hurry to get home and enjoy, but you are being paid to collect rubbish, not pick it up, and scatter it round the countryside in a random direction. Email on its way to SODC shortly. Sorry boys but you get paid to do a job, not lark around, and see if you can beat the world record for collecting rubbish round Whitchurch Hill, and get down pub before opening time.

Just paid gas bill via the internet. Wasted about 15 minutes being asked to verify my date of birth and stuff like that. Gave up in the end, but bill has been paid. One more little job out of the way. Saves time at the weekend.

So yesterday. Trip out was to Doctors. Skin specialist. He was delighted. Drugs and cream have done the trick. Swelling in legs have disappeared. Just a bit round ankles. Eczema 10% or less of what it was two or three weeks ago, I was having difficulty walking around the house. It was taking me a couple of minutes to get out of the chair. A couple of minutes to walk into kitchen.  Couple more minutes to decide it was time to lie down again, and put legs in air. Now a lot better. Doc has told me to carry on using drugs and creams until they run out, and has given me prescriptions that I may use on a permanent basis. He explained one of the reasons men in 50's get eczema is they don't use cream to moisten their skin. Eventually it dries up and you get skin diseases. Solution use more cream and less soap. Women tend not to suffer from these problems as you may have noticed they use lots of cream.I swear Mrs. G. spends more on cream, than I used to spend on beer. A major achievement. Avoid alcohol and cigarettes, to avoid your skin drying up as well, and turning into a prematurely aged old prune.

I was going to write some more, but this has gone on long enough already.

I shall return later. Finish off yesterday. Review yesterdays sport, and preview today. Bye for now.

 

The Morning Blog.

Shooting off at 11am. Back about 1pm onwards.

Golf and Tennis live on Sky from.

Twenties match on Sky at 7pm. Horse Racing on Sky from 7pm as well. Rugby on at 7.30pm. Not bad sports day then. Will be busy as I have to finish my article on "One Day Cricket Sports Trading" for "The Secret Betting Club".

If you want to join "The Secret Betting Club" click on the link below.

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Better get going as things to do before I head off at 11am.

Bye for now. Catch up later.

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Well Done Barcelona.

No-one can doubt Barcelona were the best team on the night. Pretty football. effective, and they weree well worth 2-0.

Just a bit disappointed by United's lacklustre performance. Even Ferguson seemed to get the tactics wrong. That does not happen very often. Who was United's best player? I don't think they had one. Park ran around a bit before he was substituted. I would give him 6 out of ten, which would put him at least a point ahead of the rest of the team. Iniesta MOM gets a 9. A few other players get 7's and 8'. They all had a good game. Work the maths out yourself. Barcelona were twice as good as United. Commiserations to United and their fans. A sad end to a successful domestic campaign.

If Hiddink stayed at Chelsea, I would fancy them to give United a run for their money next season, but it looks like Ancellotti will be taking over, and we don't know how he will get on, till he gets going.

Well that is the end of serious club football till August 15th, when The Premiership kicks off, but lots of football between now and then. That's footie out of the way. Just feel quite sad and disappointed that United did not make more of a game of it. They almost looked tired.

In other sport Somerset beat Warwickshire with two balls to spare. Two balls is quite a lot in 20-20, but more of that later.

Safin lost 10-8 to Quanna in the fifth set. Must have been about a 5 hour game. Two and a half marathons.

That's it from me for now. Good night nurse.

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Evening News.

Went to solicitor. Sorted.

Came home. Breakfast followed by lunch. Murray won 3 sets to one in an extraordinary match. THe match was live on BBC2 Terrestial. The gap between BBC and Eurosport was six seconds. A lifetime in Sports Trading. Rest of day was fairly lazy. Did a few jobs. Watched some tennis. Dozed off for a while. Watched some cricket. Twenty 20. Still going on. On the tennis front Safin is still involved in a five setter against Quanna, a french qualifier. Match point for Quanna. Deuce.

Football starts at 7.45pm. I must put dinner on. It's suddenly all go. Even the sun is trying to break out from behind the clouds. Advantage Safin. Hewitt meets Nadal in next round as they both won today. 6-8. Quanna to serve. Somerset 35 for 2 in reply to Warwickshire 187. I think Warwickshire will hang on and win.

Gotta go. Catch you all later.

This mornings blog.

10am Tennis:- French Open.

5.30pm. Cricket 20-20:- Somerset v Sussex

7.30pm. Champions League Final:-- Barcelona v Manchester United.

I think Manchester United will pick up the trophy. Maybe after extra-time and even penalties.

If you want a small bet on United to win outright, I would not put you off.

Have a good day,

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Evening Update.

Afternoon consisted of watching TV. Cricket/Tennis/CNBC/Barrack Obama/etc...

Another day off the beer. That is 14 days. Not a bad start.

Barrack Obama if nothing else is a great Orator. Today he appointed Sonia Sotomayer to The Supreme Court. The first Hispanic to achieve this high office. She was born on a South Bronx council estate. She was diagnosed diabetic aged eight. aged nine her father died. He was a good man. His wife was a terrific woman. She worked as a nurse six days a week, with two young children. sometime working two jobs. The family arrived from Peurto Rico during the second world war. I think the mother served as a nurse probably for the armed forces. I guess the father did as well. Badly educated he worked hard before he died. Similarities with my own family history are quite touching. My mother was the strong one in the family. Two jobs. My mum with two young children, and no money, had more like six. LIke Sonia said about her mother "You are my inspiration".

Gosh I went into one.

Where were we?

England won the cricket easily. More about that later.

Serena Williams won in 3 sets. Bit of a struggle, but probably what she needed if she is going to win The French Open. She is a part-timer these days so a hard match will probably help rather than hinder.

Tomorrow trip to solicitors at 10am. Rest of day it looks like rain, so Mrs. G. will have to leave me a list of jobs to do indoors. Sure I got lots of emails to do and stuff to chase, so I should not get too bored. By the time we get home it will be nearly time for lunch so I will probably end up making a sandwich or whatever for Mrs G.

Might end up watching tennis weather permitting. Cricket on at 5.30pm. 20-20. Somerset v Warwickshire. Rain may be a problem, but as it is a late kick off we may be lucky. Make Mrs. G. dinner, and then settle down and watch Barcelona v Manchester United. The phoney final. It should have been Chelsea Manchester United, but you know my views. Someone did not want it, so it did not happen. The way English clubs are dominating European Club Football these days they will have to book Wembly up for the next few years. Makes sense really, don't it?

So that is it. Weather due to improve Thursday. Golf/Tennis.Cricket/Rugby and Horse Racing as well. Busy day methinks, and I have another doctors appointment. Friday Mrs G. in London, so more of the same for me with some sunbathing and gardening thrown in as well. Really looking forward to the weekend. Weather forecast excellent Sunny and twenties. Garden time. BBQ time. No beer time. FA Cup Final Saturday Chelsea v Everton. Go on you Blues.

Better finish there as I have been summonsed to assist with dinner prep. More later maybe.

Tennis Trading on The French Open.

I have finally written the blog on this subject on the other place:-

http://testpunt.ning.com/profiles/blogs/tennis-trading-on-the-french

Check it out as some of the points are general and not just pertinent to tennis trading.

I will be in the chat room off and on for the rest of the evening when the sun is not shining.

http://testpunt.ning.com/profiles/blogs/tennis-trading-on-the-french