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 "Snow, snow, snow - mum.....snow!"
Cries from my daughters waft down the stairs as they open their curtains and see southern England's excuse for snow apologetically tumble out of the leaden skies. Not to be deterred by the increasingly rain-like substance - boots are on, gloves are on and they're outside before they've even shaken the sleep from their eyes! As I watch their expectations of being able to create a snowman from a millimetre of snowfall fade, my thoughts turn to a meltdown of a different kind - the economic kind. A dramatic shift in economic confidence has occurred over the last 6 months as we've all had to a suddenly wake up to the fact that, like snow, what looks pretty and soft on the surface may neither be as deep or as soft as you'd hoped underneath - meaning all the things you'd planned to do can no longer happen. |
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Well, what a day...! After the usual fraught beginnings, you know the sort - children to wake up, breakfast to throw down them and scurrying off in the car, I could finally clear a space in between the Coco Pops and the Shreddies and settle down to a day's work. Yes, today I worked from home and had the pleasure of witnessing a scurrying of a different kind.....the squeaking kind....the kind with a tail!!!! Agh, a mouse. Well, that's one of the charms of living in the country I suppose. So, anyway - after pasting peanut butter to the side of one of those "my conscience is so clear" humane mouse traps, I sat feet aloft to put my mind to the world of Accounts Payable. Well, where do you begin? Nothing seems to be staying the same at the moment. With the unprecedented bail out of some of our most trusted banking institutions and the eternal downward spiral of every organisation's profits sheets - there's a question lurking somewhere in everyone's minds, afraid to voice it - are any of us safe? |
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