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As there have been a number of people coming in and asking about the Grand National tips for 2009, I can tell you officially that our sister site, Systemlays UK, released their tips for the John Smiths Grand National 2009 yesterday afternoon, after the horses were announced for the big race. Grand National 2009 takes [...]

Click the link below to get more Grand National 2009 tips, news, advice, previews, odds, form, ratings and more than you can shake a big hairy pointy stick at… and all of it is free! You’ll also be able to find the free Grand National 2009 sweepstake kit (which you can download and print out [...]

For those of you watching the whole Aintree meeting from start to finish – here are the race times, prize money and media coverage details. Race Programme and Fixtures 2009 Grand National Meeting Thursday April 2nd 2009 2.00pm BBC JOHN SMITH’S LIVERPOOL HURDLE (Grade 2) £100,000 3m 110yds 2.35pm BBC JOHN SMITH’S ANNIVERSARY 4-Y-O NOVICES’ [...]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all of you celebrating in the run up to Tuesday 17th March 2009. We went along to join in the St. Patrick’s Day parade down the Edinburgh Royal Mile. The march was organised by St Patrick’s Parish Church. The Stockbridge Pipe Band led everyone down to the church for a [...]

Thsi year, Systemlays UK will be offering a free Grand National Sweeptake Kit for the 2009 Grand National that you can download and use. Visit the Grand National Sweepstake Kit by clicking this link and bookmark the page to get the download ASAP (will go live on the day the Grand National 2009 entries are [...]

We’ve today opened the Cheltenham Festival 2009 Tipping Competition over at Systemlays UK – so all of you with even just a passing interest in horse racing can head over there and get your entires in ASAP to win up to £100 in free bet vouchers! The competition winners will be those who select the [...]

Joseph Pearce’s bar is a charming Victorian cafe-bar with Russian beer on tap and candles on every table. It is part of a chain owned by the Christophersons – a Swedish couple who have been buying up traditional pubs in the Leith area of Edinburgh. Every Tuesday at 7pm, a small group of joggers leave [...]

Some of you might have already read about our visit to Rosslyn Chapel. After seeing that and becoming totally superstitious, I bought a friend’s story about Rosslyn Glen being haunted and really easy to get lost in. She described a walk with her Mother where they kept following false path and felt really freaked out, [...]

What do you do when you can’t sleep? The official health sites tell you to do something relaxing like reading a book. However, the other day I woke up after four hours sleep and so did Rob. We were both bolt awake with no prospect of drifting off again. I can’t complain about it – [...]

If  I told you I was going to run around the local park, wearing a bib, being shouted at by a bloke in his 30′s, you might think I’d gone back to school for a P.E. lesson. But this is what hundreds of people do several times a week due the ingenius business plan of [...]