@MCYeeehaaa@kemptonparkrace Under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, consumers have the right to cancel via email, online forms, or other written methods, as these are "distance contracts.
@MCYeeehaaa@kemptonparkrace I emailed them and they cancelled as it is not legal in this instance in the UK for a website to force you to cancel a contract only by phone if you entered into the contract online.
The final words from Henry Cecil after FRANKEL’S last run in the Champion Stakes at Ascot:
“He’s the best I’ve ever had, the best I’ve ever seen, I’ll be very surprised if there’s ever been better.”
Frankel and Sir Henry Cecil what a journey! ♥️
Someone asked me the other day, “Why do you still feel so hurt when it’s been so long?”
I took a deep breath and said, “You know when you break a bone or tear a ligament, and even after it heals, it still aches sometimes because it never quite returns to what it used to be. The pain fades, but the memory remains in the body. Those bones and ligaments will never be the same again.”
That’s what emotional pain does too. It doesn’t always scream the way it used to sometimes it just quietly lingers. You can go on with your life, laugh again, fall in love, rebuild yourself but there’s always that one quiet moment when your soul whispers, ‘Remember?’ It’s not about holding onto the pain; it’s about living with the echo of what once broke you.
Healing isn’t linear. Some days you wake up feeling strong, untouched, and free. Other days, a random song, a familiar scent, or a passing memory can pull you right back into the ache you thought you left behind. But that doesn’t mean you haven’t healed, it means you’re human. It means you’ve survived something that left a mark deep enough to remind you of your strength.
You learn to carry the pain differently. It becomes softer, quieter, more like a scar than an open wound. It no longer controls you, but it shapes you. It teaches you patience, compassion, boundaries, and resilience. It reminds you to never settle for the things that once broke you.
So when they asked me again, “Are you still hurt?” I smiled and said, “No, I’m not hurt anymore. It’s just that my soul isn’t feeling how it used to. Some parts of me healed, but they healed differently not perfectly, not the same, but beautifully in their own way.”
Because healing doesn’t always mean going back to who you were. Sometimes it means accepting that you’ll never be the same and learning to love that new version of yourself anyway.
@shiggy1981@Ramma_____@racingblogger I find it less offensive than the amount of gambling advertising you see when watching most live sport and in particular ITV racing.
@shiggy1981@Ramma_____@racingblogger You could say that about anyone who is earning a living. I respect your opinion but those I have spoken to at various racecourses think he is sound bloke, as he was in Paris towards me.
@shiggy1981@Ramma_____ Disagree having met @racingblogger at Longchamp, he took the time to speak to anyone that approached him, we all have views on racing but he is a great promoter of the sport.
Tupac once said, "The most painful lesson in life is learning that people will enter your world with sweet promises and kind gestures, with no intention of staying, no intention of loving, and no intention of giving back even a fraction of what you gave them."
If you practice violating your own conscience with a performative contradiction—a willingness to act out what runs contrary to your own sense of morality—then you become the embodiment of a lie.
There is endless metaphorical speculation of the spirit of the lie, and if you allow it to take up residence with you, then you do that at your peril. The danger of being an actor is that you become the actor and then you lose you. You replace you with that falsehood, and that will make you bitter, which only leads to becoming vengeful—and worse.
Therefore, you do not want to practice that.
If you have made mistakes in your life, but you admit to them—which is to confess—and then you repent—which is to figure out what you did wrong and decide to do better in the future—and you do that properly, no matter how far you have strayed, you can be set back on the proper path.
This is one of the ideas on which our culture is based. That can be very hard if you did something really wrong. And deciding not to abide by the dictates of your own conscience interferes with the process of redemption.