Credit crunched

We have been sitting here today doing some sums over what paying off the mortgage would save us in accrued interest payment. Reads like a telephone number aye!!

Also realised there are reports of an announcement about house sale tax imminent next week so maybe the buyer is holding back to see what happens.

Then again overall things could be worse.

We have the credit crunch.

The yanks have the credit crunch, a hurricane about to hit land and the village idiot on his way down to take personal charge of the relief effort.

Poor sods.

We had a rare event today, the Nurse came to do the looked after childrens medical. Yes a professional on a Sunday!

Now it's so long since I started working weekends that the concept weekend off has ceased to have meaning for me.

This professional came to visit today because otherwise the children would have their education disturbed.

That is so child focused as to be unprofessional, unprofessional in the sense that professionals would not do it that is.

It's funny, all the kids, including our own, love her. Visits allways run over time and we allways find something new to talk about.

Today it was "pockets of happiness" how small periods of good time can have life long benefits.

It rang very true for us, we could think back to several young people we knew who had spent relatively short periods in places and that had been enough to turn their whole life round the effect often not kicking in for many years.

This could generate a whole new strand of "evidence based practice", as my late and missed mentor Barrie Aldridge would have said: "There's a project in there for someone".

R