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Old Harry Rocks
We got a minor taste of Spring this weekend as we headed off to Old harry Rocks in Dorset with my Dad. It is a great place to go to get away from all the doom and gloom of the real world, and despite the country seemingly increasing it's uneducated sub proletarian sheep population by the day, places like the Dorset Coast Path help you see the better side of Britain...
Quantative Easing
Meet Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England who yesterday announced a plan to inject £75bn in to the country by “Quantative Easing”. Whisper it quietly but quantative easing is effectively the printing of money to buy government bonds and company assets to release money in to the banking system to encourage lending to get the economy moving again.Mervyn ...
The Coca Cola Championship That No One Wants To Win
Pictured above is Reading Club captain Graeme Murty hugging the Coca Cola Championship in 2006 after Reading FC broke all records with a haul of 106 points and had the league wrapped up by February. The contrast this year is quite staggering with not one team seemingly capable to launch a run of form to send them to Premiership riches. As soon as team looks like ...
Sir Fred Goodwin- Great Guy
Spare a thought for ex RBS boss Sir Fred Goodwin. This poor beleaguered chap has found his position untenable after RBS announced record losses and required another £13bn from the public purse to add to the initial £20bn that propped the company up.Sir Fred (who was deservedly knighted for his services to banking in 2004) appears to have made a minor error of ...
Port- Don’t Drink It Ladies and Gentlemen!
On Friday night I felt a bit down, so I sat down with my mate Steve Ballard and drunk my first bottle of Vintage Port since my record breaking hangover of Boxing Day 1992 when I sat up with my Dad and did exactly the same stupid thing aided by about 3 kilos of that hallucinogenic drug called Stilton. You may have heard of it, some people call it cheese. Port's ...