Ascot 2007. In the Chav Circle

It seemed like a great day out. Royal Ascot is the pinnacle of horse racing, where the world's richest people come to bet on the "sport of kings." Or in this case the sport of queens, as the Queen had a horse running today.

We had Silver Ring tickets for Ladies Day, thanks to Symbian, and we were going to use them.


But it seems Ladies day was also the pinnacle of the chav day out. And the Silver Circle is where they all congregated. Girls of all ages were tarted up in their brightest-pinkest-fluffiest dresses, put half-a-chicken's worth of feathers on their heads, loaded on the makeup and then got drunk on Pimms.

A good rain and soft turf meant that eventually it turned into a bit of a mud fest. So whatever good footwear we had turned brown - with special grass inserts. Many shoes were ruined today. It wasn't quite Glastonbury, but people were wearing gumboots.

Eventually the shortage of somewhere dry to sit gets a bit much - and chair stealing starts to occur. This is the fight that broke out in front of us.


The best bit was the guy who came in waving a tomato sauce bottle, threatening the girls with a good dousing. Unfortunately nothing came of that - it could have been a great photo.

Overall, an exciting day out. One that I'm not keen to replicate. But now Bridie wants to do Royal Ascot properly - from the Gold Circle. Damn.