Good News of the Day

Is here. You can guess what it concerns. I shall be thinking of nothing else all week.




Lovely photograph of Kauto Star schooling this morning, with a very serious look on his face, by George Shelton for Racingphotos.

Odd religious argument of the day

I genuinely do not understand today's broadside against Richard Dawkins by Stephen Pollard. It made me fretful and cross, and I blogged about it at awful length on the other blog.

It's not the specific Dawkins thing; he can look after himself. It's the wider fury at secularism. Have a read here and see what you think.

Because all this religious fighting is making me so grumpy and sad (see Baroness Warsi yesterday), I'm going to put up a beautiful picture of a horse instead of anything germane. Although you could say that equine loveliness is very close to godliness, if you were so inclined. It is transcendent, anyway.

Here you are - my absolute favourite fellow, Kauto Star, whose name I shall be shouting up the hill at Cheltenham in March:



Absolutely ravishing photograph found on the BBC website; photographer sadly uncredited. But very talented, whoever she or he is.

Dog of the day

One from the archives, in nostalgic black and white:

Lovely picture of the day

I don't know why I love this so much, but I do:

It is a picture from Sweet Paul Magazine, something of which I had never heard, until I discovered it today through the always lovely Dustjacket Attic. 

Music of the day

As I race to deadline, the levels of stress ratcheting up as if someone is turning a handle, I put on some lovely classical music as balm for the soul.

Just at the moment, I am listening to this:



That's the Berlin Philharmonic. Imagine being able to make sounds like that.

Dog of the Day

Doing noble face: