Up and running nicely despite my Annie Power failure

You know how it goes at this stage.

Fifty quid to speculate each day for four days, with any profits going to a stay of indeterminate duration in the Kilkenny Home for the Terminally Short of Cash.

But let me make the day’s gospel clear from the start: as one of the thousands stung by Annie Power last year, I am not trying any of that Ruby Tuesday nonsense this time around.