Entry for June 12, 2007

I've been at The Saints and Sinners race meeting at Hamilton Races tonight.
I defied my normal crap betting to actually win ninety quid on the opening race. Ten quid on the nose at 9-1. It is amazing how much better unearned winnings in the form of crinkly, gorgeous twenty pound notes feel, compared to the cold and rather functional sight of your monthly wages being deposited by telegraphic transfer into your bank account.
There is something sensual and ever-so-slightly sinful about the money handed over by a slightly resentful bookie that makes you want to squander it on champagne and cigars and expensive trinkets of little utility. Thoughts of mortgage payments and future tuition fees for your children evaporate as the cash passes over the Tote counter.
Of course I lost it all on the later races. But it was fun while it lasted.