The NagWAG Diaries ARCHIVE

Previously in the NagWag Diaries...

28 July 2009
I am not exaggerating when I tell you it took me till Wednesday afternoon (that’s four whole days!) to recover after the incredible/
brilliant/fun/wicked/fabulous weekend with my girls in Liverpool...

6 July 2009
We went to our church in the village last weekend to have our Bans read for the first time. Mum and Dad came down from Yorkshire to attend as well. The service was wonderful and our vicar Rev Godfree Simpson is such a great man and I can tell is going to give...

22 June 2009
I have been looking after a Jack Russell/Norfolk terrier puppy this week called Rhubarb, which has been heaven for me. She really fitted in well and I would have loved to have kept her forever but unfortunately (much to my Labrador’s delight!) she went home today. more...

16 June 2009
I am so sorry to anyone who has been patiently waiting for my blog this week, I have been so hectic with wedding plans including a rush up north, I did not get time to sit on my computer...more

25 May 2009
Wow what amazing weather we had yesterday, we were due to go to Uttoxeter but Choc’s horse did not run in the end so we had an unexpected day together at home...more

11 May 2009
On bank holiday Monday, we had a great day out (despite the rain) together with some friends at the Maisemore Point to Point, with a huge picnic supplied by our friends the Davies...more 

26 April 2009
Today is the start of the new Summer Jump Season; it must be so heart wrenching for the Jockeys who work so hard and achieve all their winners in a season to then have to start all over again the very next day on 0 wins...more

13 April 2009
I woke up last Thursday not so much nervous about the following three days' racing at Aintree but for an article in the Daily Star about me I knew would be out that day...more

30 March 2009
I am sitting in the Jockeys' car park at Newton Abbot Racecourse (very glamorous!), Choc is only in the last race today so I have quite a lot of waiting around until he rides...more

16 March 2009
The Wednesday of Cheltenham Festival was probably the scariest day of my life, when Choc had a crashing fall in the Queen Mother Champion Chase off a horse called Big Zeb...more

2 March 2009
The countdown to the Cheltenham Festival 2009 began in our house a long time ago, but with only eight days to go the nerves and excitement are really beginning to kick in...more

16 February 2009
I think Gloucestershire was the probably one of the worst hit areas in England last week and with so much snow, a lot of race meetings were cancelled again all over the country...more

1 February 2009
Cheltenham Festival Trials day was absolutely brilliant last weekend, most of my girl friends where away in Ireland for a Mrs Mary Chance’s surprise birthday party so I had a tremendous day’s racing with my Mum instead...more

19  January 2009
After going to bed early last Sunday night in preparation for going back to work, I woke to a snow covered garden and found I could not get my little car down our drive, I was officially snowed in...more

5 January 2009
Happy New Year to everyone! I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas and New Year’s party and you are all fully recovered ready for 2009...more

21 December 08
I seem to have had the busiest two weeks of my life but finally have all our shopping finished and the house is ready for all our guests to arrive...more

10 December 08
I am sorry for the slight delay in writing my Blog this week: our laptop went to sleep on Sunday night and I could not wake it or it would not wake up until this morning (lucky thing)...more

24 November 08
If anyone else has a Labrador you will probably be dealing with the ‘black hair everywhere’ problem we are having at the moment…more

10 November 08
Choc and I are getting married next summer and we are finally (after being engaged for over a year now), starting to get the wedding plans underway...more

27 October 08
I am going to start my Blog this week by saying a huge thank you to Jemima Cunningham and Gordy Clarkson, because if it wasn’t for them looking after Puppy every weekend...more

13 October 08
I have been busy at work for the last two weeks with the Au Pairs being away, a birthday party for a little one and a lot of ironing! I did manage, however, to go to London with Choc...more

26 September 08
It’s the start of the National Hunt winter season and as things start to get busier I wanted to share with you my stories and experiences of being part of this wonderful world of racing...more