Bigamy is Two Things, But What is Five?
I thought I’d heard it wrong, as I drove home from London. But a lady really has had four bigamous husbands.
Apparently, she is warming up number six!
Trinny Relaunches Herself
Trinny Woodall relaunches herself more than the space shuttle.
I first came across Trinny and her business partner, Susannah Constantine, at a presentation given by First Tuesday at the height of the Dot Com boom. They were launching a website for women and like many others launched at the time, I think it failed. Interestingly, I liked the idea and in common with others at the time, did they launch before the punters were ready for it?
Few sites have survived from those heady days, and most of the ones that have, have either have backers with deep pockets or no backers at all. It probably says that if you want a successful business, make sure you have control of the finances.
Perhaps, her latest relaunch is the most spectacular, as she has turned the clock back with her body.
There is a lot of truth in the old motto.
If at first you don’t succeed, then try, try, try again.
Or perhaps in Trinny’s case.
If you’ve succeeded once, you can always do it again.
I wish her the best of luck.
Especially, as at the age of nearly 62, I’m trying to get really fit. But perhaps more importantly, I’m creating a whole new suite of software, which is the successor to all of the stuff I wrote in the 1970s.
It’s hard, but it’s fun!
Outsiders – Al Muheer and Terimon
On Saturday, Clive Brittain won one of the televised races at Ascot with Al Muheer.
The horse was at a price of 40-1, so the bookies were very happy, as at those odds few would have backed it, although there was some support in the forums on the web.
But I didn’t back it!
Unlike in 1989, when Terimon was second in the Derby at 500-1. I had ten pounds each way! So I trousered over £1000.
So if nothing else the trainer has form.
I actually saw Terimon perform his last piece of work before that Derby on Newmarket Heath. Everybody thought it was good and that horse was in good form. But did he really have the form to do well in the Derby. The owner, Lady Beaverbrook, wanted a horse in England’s most famous race and Clive had promised her that he’d beat more than beat him. I think it is true to say, that the jockey, Michael Roberts, rode him intelligently to get the best place possible and in the end he was a fairly easy second, without troubling the great Nashwan.
Terimon went on to win several races in the highest classes and looking back he was just beaten in his first race of 1989 by Braiswick, who was probably the best filly that year.
20/20 hindsight is a great thing!
As an aside to this one, my son was working in the city at the time and managed to persuade a bookie to give him 1,000-1 each-way. He bought a new suit on the proceeds. It was also the first bet of one of the secretaries where he worked.
Three Years to the Olympics
It is now three years to the Olympics. My spies tell me that the project is really on budget and on time. Why my spies? Because, I wrote one of the original project management systems and some of those guys we trained and worked with are still in contact.
I think though we underestimate how much the Olympics will be worth to East Anglia, the area where I live. The night we won the Games, I was at a dinner at Anglia Ruskin University. Someone had calculated a figure of a large number of hundreds of millions of pounds.
So don’t knock the Olympics.
The Anonymous Widower 