Jeremy Grayson

Son of immigrant. Adoptive dad of 2. Metadata librarian. Point-to-Point/Horse racing freelancer. Loves indiepop, buses, BBC Micro, ale. Aspie. CBT advocate.

[Jeremy Grayson @graysonscolumn]

Other than blog-related posts and visiting Horsevault's archive for research, I'm very rarely on here now. Look me up instead at: https://t.co/6ITvtiGTmT

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@horsevault Commentary by Bob Haynes, on what was his penultimate year on the RTS roster.

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That Music List continues. Edition #255 includes music from Daði Freyr, Beck, The Loft, Tara Clerkin Trio, X-103, Tony Bontana, Girlpuppy, Paycheque, Dead Badgers, Isobel Campbell, North Sea Radio Orchestra, The Boothill Foot-Tappers, Ex Orkest and more: https://t.co/qxTdVuDUZi

[Darran Pearce @DarranPearce]

This is an account well worth following if like you me you have to pronounce Irish language horses and sometimes have no idea and it’s just interesting finding out what they mean

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@dave2482 @DarranPearce (NB Robbie doesn't do the Coronation Cup meeting at Larkhill, btw. That's Mike Crolla at present, following one disastrous year with Major T Warburton behind the mic (2/2)).

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'Morning. Any kind soul out there able to confirm who commentated at the point-to-points at Parham, March 28th and Kingston Blount, April 19th, please? No footage of either to refer to on the National site or the usual Facebook resources. Thanks in advance!

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@dave2482 @DarranPearce Yep, seen this already, thanks. Robbie is whom I'd *expect* to have done Blount, but I'd rather not assume. Confirmation from video footage, sight of the racecard or someone who has there are my preferences, in that order. (1/2)

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@DudmanAl Remind me, were you on Timeform Radio duty with me the day Kirkland was giving the course as raceable in an interview whilst a jockey was literally jumping up and down on a frozen fence behind him?

Present Haydock CoC still has some way to go to top that.

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

The great Paul Whitehouse is 68 years old today, which means I am obliged to post this (again!) - arguably the most majestically random but brilliant comedy sketch committed to celluloid for at least the last, what, forty, forty five years?

Yes, forty, forty five years.

Happy birthday Paul 🤘

[Mike Crolla @MikeCrolla]

Bliss

[Jeremy Grayson @graysonscolumn]

That Music List #254 compiles my personal faves from Eurovisions 2019-2026, incl. Daði Freyr, Käärijä, Circus Mircus, Joost Klein, Serhat, Voyager, Erika Vikman, Zalagasper, Maro, Baby Lasagna, Tautumeitas, Keiino, Sal Da Vinci, Lion Ceccah, Gåte and more: https://t.co/jBdsp1eWhT

[Jeremy Grayson @graysonscolumn]

@GWheldonRFO @UncleErniesTips Falco died in 1998 when his SUV hit a bus in the Dominican Republic, so I'd tentatively rule him out.

FWIW I don't mind Tanzschein. Lyrical skewering of nightclub bullies and druggies, and a still only 19yo performer proficient in numerous other genres also.

[Jeremy Grayson @graysonscolumn]

All sorted for this evening. Balming booze not in shot.

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@allodarlinuk, @tmbg, @CultFiguresBand, @Metric, @CravenFaults and other far less recent stuff: https://t.co/kzYkUOWTdm

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That Music List continues. Edition #253 includes music from Allo Darlin', Girl Tones, J Dilla, They Might Be Giants, Potè, W.I.T.C.H., Cult Figures, Stereolab, Furii, Metric, Deathprod, Die Art, Craven Faults, Rainbow Reservoir, The Primitives and more: https://t.co/kzYkUOWTdm

[Jeremy Grayson @graysonscolumn]

Mavis Mason would have been 21 today.
Old enough to receive the full National Living Wage.
Old enough to supervise a learner driver.
Old enough to hold a bus license.
Old enough to apply to adopt a child.
She'd have been many things.
We're just so grateful that we had been hers.

[Jeremy Grayson @graysonscolumn]

@DarranPearce Final decs for Bangor and Uttoxeter this Saturday: 57 and 62 (both expecting good).

Final decs for Bangor and Uttoxeter last year: 50 (good) and 49 (good).

2024 figures admittedly higher, albeit on gs/gd mixture. Point stands that 33 runners isn't as good as it gets nowadays.

[Jeremy Grayson @graysonscolumn]

@DarranPearce Hence the rush of jumps tracks each year from late April onwards trying to squeeze in fixtures whilst they are still permitted to race. Hereford, Huntingdon and Warwick - all down on numbers in recent weeks - are ordinarily all over and done with by early June.

[Lemma the Optimist @DoctorLemma]

Outside a senior care home in Düsseldorf, Germany, there’s a bus stop with a green and yellow sign, a bench, and a printed timetable on the post. It looks exactly like every other bus stop in the city. No bus has ever stopped there.

The home built it around 2006, with the help of the local transit authority. The residents have dementia. Many of them, when the confusion gets bad, become certain they need to go home, even though the home they’re remembering is one they left decades ago. They’d walk out the front door looking for a way back. Sometimes they made it onto real buses. One woman was eventually found at the address of her childhood, where strangers were now living.

So the staff built a bus stop that goes nowhere. When a resident wanders out and sits down on the bench, a nurse comes over after a few minutes and says the bus is running late, and would they like to come inside for a coffee. By the time the coffee is poured, the urge to leave has usually passed.

The replica was so convincing that for the first few weeks, neighbours kept showing up to wait for actual buses. The nurses had to explain.

Dementia eats short-term memory first and works backwards in time. The part of the brain that holds new memories goes early, but the older memories, childhood, a first home, a young family, can stay vivid for years after. The bus stop works because it doesn’t argue with that. It meets people in the reality they’re actually living in, lets the moment pass, and brings them back inside.

Versions of it now exist in care homes across Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and the United States.