Crikey, Saturday already - is it Christmas yet?

Another Christmas gift!

Madame has left me alone and gone to Newbury with the weekend guest. I remain at The Chateau d’If to prepare the sausage rolls for people coming for drinks. Luckily, I discovered it was Saturday and that there was racing on at Newbury; otherwise, I might have thought she had fallen to the curse of Lambourn.

I had a wonderful evening of gossip, tales of w…