Well the world is full of miracles, and today I got a nice big fat one. Turns out my previous employer could not tax properly for shit, and now a nice big fat tax rebate has slapped itself down on my doorstep, of course being the real world it is already spoken for, and already the little chicks of expenditure have hatched and demanded a good feeding. How do they guess? I get a bit of cash and the mouths open, expecting the cash worms.

But that would be looking at it negatively, I am still ahead, as Mr Micawber said Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

Therefore I am counting my blessings and taking joy in todays news. In fact its a bit like winning on the horses.