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Anyone Going To Royal Ascot This Year?
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I don't usually bother but have just been offered a hospitality ticket. Haven't decided if I'll take it up, if I do though I'll be following stokemavericks posts closely!
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Yes, I'm there on the Tuesday; well, I am if I can find where I've put the badge, otherwise I'll have to go some other day! Nowadays, I find that one day; the first is the best as quieter and everything being pristine; is enough, two at most.
It's the best meeting in the calendar, by far, for quality of racing. Trouble with a "hostility tent", is that you may not get to see much of the racing. If the hospitality is in one of the boxes high up in the stand; there's a whole floor of them; then that's perfect. Perfect view of the racing and food and drink there. But you are generally expected to dress as for the Royal Enclosure; best check on that; which means a fairly modest dress and a proper hat, not just a tiny fascinator, though a sizeable one covering the crown passes, for the ladies, and top hat, worn at all times, waistcoat, and morning coat for the men
It's the best meeting in the calendar, by far, for quality of racing. Trouble with a "hostility tent", is that you may not get to see much of the racing. If the hospitality is in one of the boxes high up in the stand; there's a whole floor of them; then that's perfect. Perfect view of the racing and food and drink there. But you are generally expected to dress as for the Royal Enclosure; best check on that; which means a fairly modest dress and a proper hat, not just a tiny fascinator, though a sizeable one covering the crown passes, for the ladies, and top hat, worn at all times, waistcoat, and morning coat for the men
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I am single these days Fred, and I don't miss the perpetual wail of "but I haven't got a thing to wear" one little bit.
Funny thing is though, you never, ever, see any of them going about starkers do you ?
I am also saving on not having to buy toilet rolls in industrial quantities. What on earth do they do with them ?
(actually don't answer that, because I don't really want to know )
Funny thing is though, you never, ever, see any of them going about starkers do you ?
I am also saving on not having to buy toilet rolls in industrial quantities. What on earth do they do with them ?
(actually don't answer that, because I don't really want to know )
Bog rolls, mikey ? Have you got a link? LOL. Can't say that I've noticed, but then I do leave before the last race. What they get up to after that is anybody's guess. There is was is tactfully called "community singing around the bandstand" later,which can get a bit riotous, but I gather from the daughter (in a group of three girls; watch out for the photos) that there is a "vibrant" (=drunk and disorderly) night club on site. That could involve any amount of bog roll use, legitimate or otherwise
If I go I will....
1. Wear a recycled outfit.
2. If I can find one and it matches one of my frocks, I will wear a red gnome hat to mark me out as an ABer.
3. Return home wearing my knickers, and they won't be on my head.
4. Not guarantee 100% sobriety but I'll be in a better state than some I've witnessed falling over in Ascot High St!
1. Wear a recycled outfit.
2. If I can find one and it matches one of my frocks, I will wear a red gnome hat to mark me out as an ABer.
3. Return home wearing my knickers, and they won't be on my head.
4. Not guarantee 100% sobriety but I'll be in a better state than some I've witnessed falling over in Ascot High St!
You'll enjoy it, Eccles, it will be a lot of fun - which day and is it the Royal Enclosure?
Time passes so quickly - far quicker than on the tv - by the time you have seen the nags in the ring, got a bet on, had a glass and then it's the race - all repeated six to eight times...... I used to go to Sandown and Kempton on such a deal (friends family ran them) - our package that we came up with was that if you won, you had to buy a bottle of champers, 2nds and 3rds on an each way you could keep - so you could shell out the money on low odds or a couple of quid on a rank outsider..... With the 'experts' around, you didn't really lose out but so what as the Club level entry was about £60 and that equated to an average of a tenner a race......there were some evenings at Sandown when we didn't even get out of the parent's house as they lived at the bottom end of the carpark, just off the course.
Time passes so quickly - far quicker than on the tv - by the time you have seen the nags in the ring, got a bet on, had a glass and then it's the race - all repeated six to eight times...... I used to go to Sandown and Kempton on such a deal (friends family ran them) - our package that we came up with was that if you won, you had to buy a bottle of champers, 2nds and 3rds on an each way you could keep - so you could shell out the money on low odds or a couple of quid on a rank outsider..... With the 'experts' around, you didn't really lose out but so what as the Club level entry was about £60 and that equated to an average of a tenner a race......there were some evenings at Sandown when we didn't even get out of the parent's house as they lived at the bottom end of the carpark, just off the course.
I wasn't thinking of toilet rolls at Ascot really, although a vision of lots of hoity-toity ladies having fights with them is tempting. No, I was thinking that a 4 pack of the things last me, a single chap, living alone with his faithful hound, weeks and weeks. But in houses where women are present in sufficient numbers, 4 wouldn't last the night.
One of my brothers is in the unfortunate position of being the only chap in a household with 4 others women of various sizes and ages. He was in the Army and still uses methods other than felling huge quantities of trees to attend to the essential bum bit. I won't go into detail here on AB but they do have a bidet.
But he still struggles home with a 24 pack of toilet rolls, that can hardly fit into the boot of the car. Well, not after he puts the beer in anyway.
Another thing is that he says that these toilet rolls have to be expensive branded names, not the supermarket own-brand ones which are significantly cheaper. His argument that you are only wiping your a**e with them cuts no ice whatsoever.
Women...strange creatures. You can't live with them and you can't bury them under the patio any more either.
jno...I have looked at your link and it reminded me of my days watching Blue Peter in the 60's...took me right back it did.
One of my brothers is in the unfortunate position of being the only chap in a household with 4 others women of various sizes and ages. He was in the Army and still uses methods other than felling huge quantities of trees to attend to the essential bum bit. I won't go into detail here on AB but they do have a bidet.
But he still struggles home with a 24 pack of toilet rolls, that can hardly fit into the boot of the car. Well, not after he puts the beer in anyway.
Another thing is that he says that these toilet rolls have to be expensive branded names, not the supermarket own-brand ones which are significantly cheaper. His argument that you are only wiping your a**e with them cuts no ice whatsoever.
Women...strange creatures. You can't live with them and you can't bury them under the patio any more either.
jno...I have looked at your link and it reminded me of my days watching Blue Peter in the 60's...took me right back it did.
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