Using this post..........
It's Grand National weekend coming up on the 13th, every year there's an outcry due to the number of horses dying, especially in just that one race {4 last year} and every year their voices are drowned out and the carnage continues.
All because there's far too much money to be made to worry about a few horses, there must be tens of millions of pounds bet on that one race so a few do- gooders bellyaching about dead horses will not stop the "fun". 

I think I mentioned on an earlier post about Aintree, something to do with ambulances covering at the track over Grand National weekend when "genuine" patients dial 999 and can't get an ambulance to attend 'cos they are too busy rubbing cream on jockey's sore backsides.
Very few things I get on my high horse for {excuse the pun} but horse racing makes me seethe.

I put horse racing, in any form in the same category I would put bullfighting

Not heard of this place...I generally eat out in pubs out of town...

De Rhodes pub Barlborough on the main road to Worksop........your not missing anything.
Apparently it's the same pub chain that run the Young Vanish in Glapwell and the Woodend in Huthwaite both of these are far superior.
I put a tripadviser review about my visit and just got the "Sorry we didn't meet your expectations" guff, in the review I missed out how the staff were non existent in the pub all the time we were there because they were all in the kitchen screaming and cackling like a coven of witches. 

It was the first place I ever went that had cauliflower cheese as a carvery option.
Hate the thought of the stuff.
Not been since.
Bad review I know, was probably 15 years ago lol :-)

There appears to be movement in trying to re open the airport, apparently a 125 year lease has just been signed {March 24} so hopefully planes will be seen at the airport.

Having received our polling cards for the 2nd May election presumably to elect a Police and crime commissioner {salary 78k per year} and not forgetting a Mayor I have had just a very quick look at the candidates and what they offer in the leaflet that came with the poll cards.

It is alleged.........
Among Ben Bradley's promises, as Mayor, is one claim to "fix Derbyshire's roads". Apparently at the moment Ben is the Council leader of Nottingham County Council and there appears to be an online petition for him to resign due to the appalling state of Nottinghamshire's roads.
As for the prospective incumbent for the role of police commissioner it would appear she has been in the D.T. over plans to demolish a perfectly good police station in Killamarsh  and spend over a million building a new one, whether this expenditure is totally necessary remains to be seen.

Either way I won't be budging come May 2nd.