Ok this isn’t the most original thought – but haven’t England been dreadful at the World Cup. The whole thing has been so half hearted. I’ve noticed an interesting little sea change too while travelling around Harwich.Four years ago there were loads of cross of St.George flags – they were on cars to the point [...]

My family and I have been in Vegas – we couldn’t resist a trip out for the World Series of Poker. The whole spectacle of the thing is mind blowing – the sheer number of tables, the number of people crowded in – the TV cameras and media, and the famous names who seem to [...]

Much celebration here as my brother and I were on the Grand National winner! Everyone just seemed to think it was Tony McCoy’s time to win the race and he finally did it with Don’t Push It. Everyone went completely mad backing him down to favourite and I know you shouldn’t believe in destiny but [...]

Well I’m not 50 yet, but a couple of friends persuaded me to go to the local bingo hall. They’ve been playing bingo online, which is becoming a really big thing. You see more and more adverts on TV for it. There used to be one which really made me laugh that had people shhh-ing [...]

My brother and I went down to our local casino for the £10 rebuy poker they put on. It was fun – mostly, though it was obviously a little manic as people were happy to fling their chips around. With these live events you do need a little luck in running and a little nerve [...]

Hi, my name is Gladys and welcome to my blog. If you are wondering about the name, I really wanted to call it Gladys’s patch, but that was taken, so we have the name GladyssPatches.Com, which is a bit of a mouthful but I think it works ok. Gladys may be an old fashioned name [...]