So after Gawler when our two top rated horses ran 1st and 2nd , it was downstairs for a quick dinner and a rushed trip to make the 6.20 session of Spectre with Ros who was just freshly out of her medically enforced “home detention”. I missed three winners from the next four or five races and $1500 profit but Hey! You have to get your priorities right. All work and no play leads to a very dull existence even if you miss out on a bit of cash. The next five races could have simply lost and it gets back to the “Confetti Principle”. An incident this week once again reinforced the principle that you must find time in your life for “time out” from whatever you do because you never know when your next breath may be your last. Our neighbour regularly brings in the surrounding bins on garbage day as many of the locals simply aren’t home during the day. Leaving them out gives the bad guys a leg up as to who is home and who not and we have had our share of daytme robberies. Unfortunateky Stan was on his way across the road to an absent neighbours bin when he tripped and fell, splitting his head open and knocking himself out. With everyone away, we were at the opposite end of our house, the first person to see him was a passing motorist. We were only aware of it when an ambuance pulled up and in short time there were four ambulances, two police cars, a cameraman and two rescue helicopters in a nearby park. Paramedics spent two hours trying to revive him and then stabilising him sufficiently to be taken slowly to the waiting chopper. Ros reckons by the look of him he was unlikely to survive and we are yet to hear. His only relative we know of is currently overseas for six months and we were told his exwife would likely not be interested. A vefy sobering incident. Enjoy life while you can, and for many of us that is successfully punting but don’t get so absorbed that it controls your life.