Eureka!

I promise not to push The Colour Of Money any further after today but I can report that the web site is now working perfectly and an Instanta blog reader can win £100 if they appear in the top ten on the leader board at lock down on Saturday. If more than one Instanta blog reader is in the top ten, the highest will win the £100. I recently appeared in 4th place in my guise of Lfcchampions but soon lost when I had another try. To play click here.

Whilst not busy playing the game some of us are having a photographic day today. I have set up the portable photo studio that I use for my eBay sales in the board room and Lauren and Nat are taking snaps of all the spare parts to make life easier identifying them.



I managed to balance the books for January this morning.We always make a loss in the first five months of our financial year due to seasonal trading and I am pleased to say that the loss to the end of January is £22,000 less than for the same period last year and with a few alterations to the figures in respect of the timing of bad debt write offs we could almost convert that to a profit. Sadly due to the wonderful interest rate collar that the bank lumbered us with Barclays have made a real killing in the last few months. As interest rates have plummeted ours have gone up and we now have the benefit of a monthly interest charge of over £2500 for the privilege of having hedged the interest rate on our property loan as a condition of getting the money.



How do two nuclear submarines manage to collide in the middle of the Atlantic? Over 76 million square km of water up to 8,000 metres deep and two subs happen to be in exactly the same position at exactly the same depth at exactly the same time!Sounds like an amazing coincidence or could they both be investigating the same thing? You decide.



So Jade Goody is to live out her remaining days in the blaze of publicity that has accompanied her for the last few years. It is heartening that her case has raised awareness of cervical cancer to new heights and great that she will be able to secure her children's futures with the revenue but should we be watching her suffering? I love TV but I don't want to be rubbernecking on a private and personal tragedy.



Orange Wednesday tomorrow and Marion and I are looking forward to the cartoon Bolt. It should make a nice change from the gloom of the last fortnight's Revolutionary Road and Doubt and I am looking forward to a bit of a laugh. Trying to persuade Marion to splash out on a meal afterwards but having little success.



Great news on the jobs front. KFC is creating 9,000 new jobs. That should create another few thousand jobs in the NHS in a couple of years. Whilst the recession has caused the amount of organic veg on the shelves at Tesco to dwindle, the fast food market is growing massively as it did in the 90's. Remember this?