The value of shares!

I heard of this today and it really tickled me!

If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it would now be worth £4.95, with HBOS, earlier this week your £1000 would have been worth £16.50, £1000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth less than £5, but if you bought £1000 worth of Tennents Lager one year ago, drank it all, then took the empty cans to an aluminium re-cycling plant, you would get £214. So based on the above statistics the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and re-cycle!

There are some very clever people out there!

We held our school 'Jeans for Genes' day today. We had a lady in on Tuesday to talk to the children and she did an excellent job of explaining a very tricky concept to our children. For a minimum donation of £1, children and staff could wear their jeans to school for the day.

A good day for a worthy charity but hard work as discipline seems to go out the window for some children the minute they're out of school uniform!

Oh...and disaster! I have been forced to light the fire this evening after hanging on as long as possible. Autumn is most certainly here. A quick check confirms the outside temperature has dropped to a chilling 3 degrees! I still have to have the side hatch wide open as the boat has filled up with horrid smoke - the result of a summers worth of dust and dog hair building up under, behind, around and on the stove! Actually, I think most of it is the polish burning off!