Count me in ..... I am having to walk around biting down hard on my lip about it..
My Dad's main interest in life (apart from me Mum) is horse racing.. in the past I have been to various race courses with him.. up until about 6 or 7 years ago he would always tell me to pick a horse for the National & stick a bet on it for me...
but the older I get the more I can't condone it anymore.. any of the racing tbh.. but especially the National.
I was up at Ma & Pa's the other week & they were watching some racing on the telly.. is was jumpy racing (hahahaha... I think there is a more technical term for it than that)... and Mum and Dad had a couple of bets on.. if it wasn't for current circumstances I would have voiced my opinion & left.. but under the circumstances I felt I had to stay. I couldn't watch the telly.. at every jump my heart was in my mouth.
I have been listening to some of the telly peeps talking about how much safer they have made it this year, but as they have said that a couple of years ago, and a couple of years before that its a bit meaningless really.
Tis good to have somewhere to state unhappiness about it Saz.. cos I just feel like a big old killjoy if I say anything anywhere else (work, my parents, obviously on here etc etc etc)