Only two days to the month end

What a change in the weather from wet and windy to cold with a wind the is best described as lazy; it just goes straight through you not around you.

The garden is showing signs that Spring is in the wings waiting to take centre stage soon. Remember the birds in this cold weather and put out feed for them.

If you have been doing something different for the last 30 days you should have changed a habit or created a new one. The boss(he) has been sorting out his priorities and has seen some changes to his attitude as a result so signs are very encouraging .

According to the news the UK will be the worst hit European economy in this recession. If the population of the UK believes it then that's what will happen. It's time to stop focusing on the recession and refocus on how to start rebuilding. If the news had a more upbeat view then so would the people. In a survey of small companies in the UK most are still looking to continue to exist and look for new products or business; only one had laid off staff and that was a joinery company reliant on the building trade. Maybe they should be considering how to diversify their products or look at new markets?

As a Boxer dog I got to wondering, as one does with does when you are being a dog and not doing anything. Why have the Governments of the USA,UK, EU and others being quick to say they will inject money into the country to get things going? Why did the sub prime come about? Why did the UK have debts expressed in Trillions? Because the whole basis of the world economies is on consumption of goods and services. The governments by not taking a more proactive part in cooling the rate of consumer spending contributed to the problems now. Credit card companies where not curtailed in their advertising and the banks loaned far in excess of their means. As we are all learning there is no free lunch. what an expensive lesson it is for many.

Well the weekend looks to be cold, but with some sunshine so there is some hope that a busy weekend will be at least a dry one. Take care and stop reading newspapers or looking at the TV news.