A bagatelle, for one of the loveliest dates in the calendar.
May 1st is a pagan festival… and in a recent post, On Grown-Up Pleasures (link at the end), I wrote about the fun of a bet, regarded as heathen in some quarters. The Flat season is now, praise be, fully underway - the Guineas races are run at Newmarket this weekend - and horses are very much o…
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