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Cheltenham 2012 – Hope For The Future
I’ve spent the past week in the company of 250,000 people whose idea of an investment decision was whether to bet each way or on the nose. The Pension Play Pen assiduously avoided the hospitality pavilions that stretched down the winning straight. … Continue reading
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Building an online community
The Kings Men I am sitting on a misty Cotswold hill in utter tranquility. Only the pad of the keys breaks the silence. The morning is still and there is a prospect of a beautiful day. I am alone. … Continue reading
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Now for Cheltenham.
Cheltenham‘s the start of spring- not the place or the racecourse or the horses but the decamping to the Cotswolds for a week of full throttle fun. The house gets cleaned out as binoculars and trilbies are hunted down, the car is … Continue reading
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Tagged Cheltenham, cotswolds, Cottage Rake, Dawn Run, Desert Orchid, Golden Miller, Kauto Star, Paul Nicholls
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Do we need guarantees on the pensions we get? Pension Play Pen lunch – Feb 6th
There was a peculiar diversity of participants in this month’s pension lunch which led to an extraordinary debate and the closest of votes. Our lunch group split into three groups 1. Those who followed a broadly paternalistic line (Stav, Bill,Mike … Continue reading
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Join us for the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival 2012
Each year we (the Pension Play Pen) organise a week down in the Cotswolds and go racing for four days at the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival. The racing takes place between 13th and 16th March and we have taken the house for … Continue reading