Despite Barclays' best efforts at single handedly bringing Instanta down (the base rate on our £600,000 loan is now 6.75% thanks to their wonderful hedge that we had to take out)I've just done the accounts for the seven months to 31st March 09 and they look OK. Our sales are just 0.6% down on the same period last year but, due to exceptional items in 2008, we have made a profit against a loss last time. Sales for the twelve months ending 31st March 2009 are 1.2% up on the corresponding figure to 31st March 2008. I feel that in the recessionary circumstances that we are trading in, the figures show that we are holding our own.I do feel bad about the bank though. That interest collar is currently costing us £36,000 per year and they have just increased all our bank charges whilst, according to our local cashiers, they are "Bending over backwards to help business customers". We are tied into the collar for another four years so let's hope that interest rates go above 6.75% in that time. Mind you perhaps not. I don't want the bank claiming that they were right all along.
After being 6-3 down on aggregate, who would have thought that with five minutes to go another goal would put Liverpool through to the Champions League Semi Final? Sadly it was Chelsea who got the next goal but the boys did us proud and there is no shame in the result after a pulsating match. Come on the Reds. Let's win every game that's left and put Man U under a bit of pressure. I thought that scoring my first ever hat trick in our five a side last night might be a good omen but it was not to be.
We got tickets to see "Let The Right One In" tonight but we've got to go all the way to Cheshire Oaks which is 80km away. Hopefully it will be worth it. We should be out in time to listen to the Porto game on the way home.I want United to win so that they can be bogged down with as many fixtures as possible before the end of the season.
I was saddened yet again to read of the bloody Taliban's idea of justice in Afghanistan. This time a real Romeo and Juliet ,Abdul Aziz (21) and Gul Pecha (19) fell in love and eloped. They did not have their families' permission and were turned in by their parents to the almighty Taliban (they who must be obeyed). For this terrible sin of loving each other and wanting to spend their lives together they were publicly shot by firing squad outside a mosque.If we lived by their ludicrous laws there would be public executions on every corner every day. Excuse my language but these people are total bastards. And there was me worrying about Gordon Brown's police state.
It's the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster. Others have spoken far more eloquently about this than I ever could. I wasn't there but know a number of people who were and it left an indelible mark on them all. The positive press that the memorial has been given is extremely encouraging.
Marion says we should try and get some takeaway food before the cinema tonight. Don't think we'll be going to Domino's.
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