Day 359

Grand National. Mercury setting at the start time, so I had 50p each way on Won't Be Gone Long, a Mercurial name with orange colours. The race was a fiasco, with 2 false starts. On the second most of the riders weren't aware of the false start and raced all the way round. In the end the race was declared void, all bets to be returned. Mercury is of course patron of tricksters and thieves!

I see there's some crackpot plan to give $1,000m of aid to Russia. Half of that'll go to the Mafia, the other half to 'entrepreneurs' who are after all much the same thing. This is a difficult time for socialists, still the imbalance of wealth world-wide will go on increasing.