Horsey people

It's billed as "the race that stops a nation".
Now in Oz, that could be the 100 metre front crawl, or the one legged dog frisbie chasing 100 metre, cause let's face it the Aussies would bet on a blind drunk man hitting a bullseye through a brick wall... if the odds were right.

So it did indeed stop everything at my work. Where they put on the big screens in the board room and invited everyone in for a beer and a bet. Nice to know that your employer can live it up once in a while.

As a bonus, I picked (it must be mentioned that it was out of the hat) the 2nd and 3rd place winners out of the hat, and ended the day $50 richer. There were a few comments made about the gambling irish!

But i'm happy, now I'm going to put that money in the bank and let the interest build up. Er, or not.

Still at least things don't look quite as bleak as they did last week, the Aussie dollar gaining about 10% value against the Euro and the US Dollar.