A Break

[poliphilo]

We go home tomorrow- but only for a week- to make sure the house is still there and cut the hedge and appease Dot and maybe see some people.  It'll be a break though not exactly a holiday.

Today we're going to have lunch with the trainer who master-minded yesterday's "wonderful race" at Uttoxeter. I have- until now- avoided involvement in my mother's retirement hobby- which once paid returns- at least in terms of silverware- and is now a money pit, but living here, running the household, monitoring my mother all day long, watching her write the enormous cheques, it gets to be harder to turn a blind eye. 

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[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

Losing races is kind of a part of the process. Maybe she enjoys the process as a whole, but doesn't enjoy losing. No one enjoys losing. But, maybe there is still a learning curve. I guess what I am saying is, this is her retirement "hobby", not her retirement "business". She is doing it for fun, not to make a bundle of money...

... unless that IS the whole reason she is doing it, to supplement her retirement income. Then it's a poor choice.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

When my mother and father started racing about 20 years ago it was both hobby and business. They did quite well. They had quite a few winners and made money breeding and selling foals. These days, though, the money only seems to go one way. My father was a businessman, my mother isn't- and she's out of her depth- all the more so now her faculties are fading.

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

:-( That is sad, and probably very frustrating for her.