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Any of our friendly high street chaps handing any out????
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Corals always do, cost a quid and you get a £1 free bet.
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Not seen a Corals betting shop for years.
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Thanks slippy...I am surrounded by ppower and hills. Coral not seen near me in Finsbury Park
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They closed my local Corals in Dulwich earlier this year, my mate manages the one in Beckenham High Street and I am going to see her tomorrow afternoon for a pint.I'll see when they are dishing them out and will get a few dozen and dish them out on here to anyone that wants one.
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Does anyone still use a diary? Mobile phones have downloadable versions, that's why I think they don't send them out anymore.
Great gesture Slippy although I'll not want one. I've always felt the points system should be used as a kind of raake back. Buy Tee Shirts, diaries ect from the shop rather than get a % discount that most of us never use. |
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I WANT A DIARY AND I WANT IT NOW
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BF leather bound desk diary & gold fountain pen with be in christmas post soon along with Harrods xmas Hamper.
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^ Like going back 10 years
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The Racing Post desk diary is £30, I'll get two my brothers one for a Christmas present. The other two don't gamble
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Such a shame, for most of the recipients it was the only book they ever read.
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I have a few for 2015 if that helps
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i remember those days when bill hill gavve away nice calandars Free
i was covering for manager he told me to charge punters £1 each for a carve up later cant do that i say they are free well u have to now i started punter comes in asks for a calendar sure £1 please say 1 £1 ! £1 ! punter exclaims yes sorry i reply sheepishly no wories mate they £2 in my local hills |
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Not helping
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pp done them for a select few
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Had one today from dentist ....after paying the dreadful bill
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surprised there is still any call for papers diaries these days
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Any news slippy??
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I WANT A DIARY AND I WANT IT NOW FFS
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hampers out late Nov i hear
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Was Mecca who gave out the calendars CaptF.
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maybe we should pray to them then
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mecca bought hills
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Coral now merged with Ladbrokes
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 more job cuts then |
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Back in the 1980s there were so many bookmakers giving away so many diaries and calendars you could wrap up a spare one, and as long as it featured a picture of Desert Orchid give it to a girlfriend as a Christmas present.
Thirty years on, no accounts left, no diaries and no girlfriends either. Where did it all go wrong? |
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15 years ago I received about 7 or 8 diaries from all the major bookmakers - usually 1 per account and as I then had at least 2 accounts with each bookie (sadly not anymore apart from one), I received plenty of spare ones which I gave away to workmates who were interested in the sport. Some of them were really good and very comprehensive.
But in recent years, they started to reduce in numbers and December 2014 was the last time I received a diary for 2015, and now nothing! I purchased a Channel 4 racing diary for this year from Amazon at £8.99. It has minimal info in it, so very expensive for what you get! So, SlippyBlue, I would like to take up your offer of a free 2017 racing diary please. Not fussed about which bookie it's from, but the last Bet 24/7 diary was extremely good quality in my opinion! I like to keep hard copy diaries for records of past events. I have kept a diary since I left home in 1969! |
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Samuel Pepys
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Samuel, peeps!
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Slippy has gone missing
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Long gone are the bucketful of pocket diaries ,although there was only ever one that ticked all the boxes ...sexy leather clad ,glossy pics of all last years big race winners ,vintage wine chart .
There was only one ,the rest were all cheap n nasty . Sadly this year once again i will have to make do with a bf desk top prob end uo with two after the hamper (more food parcel tbh ) is opened |
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i imagine the modern day bookmaker diary is restricted to january and february
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Not gone missing, when Corals release them I'll get as many as I can.
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Anyone remember the beautiful racing calendars that Schweppes used to produce? Years ago as a racing-mad schoolboy I had a 1974 edition with Indianapolis on the front page as the January cover star. Sadly threw it out .
They looked like this. Beautiful portraits and the fixtures printed below. . http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1974-schweppes-racing-calendar-red-778364033 |
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If a bookmaker sent me a free diary, I'd check immediately how much I'd been losing to him.
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I have the 1977 and 1980 Schweppes calendars on display on the upstairs landing .....confuses the hell out of the family.
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