Evening all

It's all on the post count Merle, when you get up to 1500 you will joining the exalted Masters.

Yes Ted, funny money it was indeed. When I started in Lombard Street, aged 18, I had the magnificent salary of £150 pa, plus £30 pa Metropolitan allowance, which wasn't enough to pay for my season ticket to get to work. Having said that, I can't remember it being a particular struggle.
I was deferred National Service because I thought I was going to study to become an actuary but gave the idea up after a couple of years so, came late into Service life.
I became very grateful to one of the Actuaries who had used me as number cruncher for some outside work he was doing and I had earned £30 which became very useful when I was training on the Isle of Man and compulsory saving for the month without pay once commissioned meant that, with my surname, I had to wait through the weekly pay parade and march up to get a quid note one week and a ten bob one the other.

Perhaps one of the useful things about growing up at that time was that there were no such things as credit cards and you really had to talk to the Bank Manager if you wanted an overdraft facility.
The first real debt I had was when I bought my first house for the massive sum of £1,900.

When I walk down to the High Street here I pass a credit union office which is a good idea but always has a long queue and I don't think these are the investors. Our young woman MP in her first term is concentrating on trying to get proper regulation to stop door knocking credit scams.

perverse £100 dont know but it does it to mine as well if not in this post grrr £65

mornin....foggy

mornin' all
Pretty sky , clouds like rows of fish scales gleaming in the sun
A mackerel sky ?
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Merle watch your back if you are purchasing a national paper, these weekend editions require a weight warning.
However should it be only the weekly "local" Rag such as "The Camberley Curmudgeon " If its any thing like ours its getting thinner and thinner
We have the "Morecambe Visitor" & the "Lancaster Guardian"(not be confused with the Manchester version)
They both report Events such as;
The Chemist Rota whos open When....
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The library Van will Visit The Kellets on Wednesday instead of Thursday. Arnside Sandside & Jenny-browns point will not get a Visit this week This is due to the van needing a MOT.
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A talk by Mrs Bennet on her recent holiday to Prestatin (with Slides)
will be held on Tuesday at Bare Women's institute
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The Twemlow Parade Allotment Society AGM will be held at the Douglas park Bowls club premises (orders For horse manure and spent hops will be taken After the Meeting)
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The application for change of use, Conversion of Existing attached Gazebo to a Granny flat By Mr Hickmough of Fourlane Ends
has been approved
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All riveting stuff

Mornin....dark!