Well, we have lost one of our crew for our now annual journey to Royal Ascot for Ladies’ Day – Pauline you were missed! – however that Su Yin happily stepped in this year to join our journey. The start for Royal Ascot went a little off-track when D missed the train we were supposed to catch though he managed to get on to the next one which was only 15 minutes after ours.

The seating and table arrangement had changed a bit when we got to Royal Ascot from last year. It seemed that the fencing had moved forward a bit and they’d added a whole lot more benches but as usual we went for a table which was useful for placing our giant food supplies for the day. Heh heh. They’d also moved the lavs even further away and though there were a lot more toilets than last year they were so far away I could barely be bothered making the trip to them. It also somehow didn’t change the long lines out the front! Hopefully they’ll change that for next year.

We had a really brilliant day weather-wise – mostly warm and always blue skies (last year was fine but quite overcast at times) – which could have explained why there were so many people at Royal Ascot this year. It felt like everyone in London was the races today!

Photo opps were taken at the start when there were less people around, after that it soon got so busy we could barely make our way around.

Race-wise I think Su Yin did the best out of the four of us and was probably the only one to finish in a net positive position. Unlike last year the race results were fairly unpredictable so if you had some money on the bigger odd horses you could have made a bundle.

It was once again a successful and fun day, and also another opportunity to say hi to the queen.