Thanks for being such a great contributor to the discussions Gil. Isn't fishing sort of like punting ? If you go a long time without catching anything, have you suddenly become less of a fisherman, or is it statistical ? Do you use small hooks in the hope of catching lots of tiddlers, or do you use large hooks for the odd 100 lb'er but with the increased risk of not catching anything ?
----- Original Message ----- From: Gilbert Dymock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 12:29 AM Subject: [racebase] Taking a sabbatical > To all my Racebase friends. > > I'm going to disappear from the group for a while. > > I'm not giving up . . . just taking a sabbatical. (No, Muz, that doesn't > mean I'm joining a monastery.) > > Over the past few years, decades really, I've become more and more selective > with when and how I invest on racing. South Island gallops went when Reon > Murtha was still a reasonable race-caller; harness racing followed suit in > the mid-'90s; most midweek stuff went in the past four or five years. And so > it goes (as the great Kurt Vonnegut would phrase it). > > Now that the rain has arrived (and, boy, it arrived here over the weekend) > the prospect of sorting out winter gallopers and then watching them plug > around through ploughed fields fills me with what can only be described as > dread. Of course, it must be ten times worse for the jockeys . . . no wonder > a heap of them are looking for billets in Macau, Mauritius and so on for > June, July and August. And you'd have to be simple-minded to work here as a > stablehand at this time of year. > > Anyway, I bought a kite-fishing rig the other day and for the next three or > four months my Thursdays and Fridays will be spent, weather permitting, at > Pakiri Beach, trying to land some 10lb snapper. If I master the art, I'll be > across to the west coast chasing the really big ones. > > Good punting everyone . . . I'll be back for the Kelt. > > Gil > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/racebase/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
