Congrats to the Hibees

Enjoy your trip to Europe. It will be the last one for a while.

Arsenal & luck

I don’t know if you watched the FA cup final but I did. As an Arsenal fan, I can only say I am relieved. It was interesting that at church on Sunday, our assistant was talking about Queen Esther, in the book of Esther, and how many things happened that could have been considered “lucky” [...]

Sometimes I get it wrong

Interestingly, just when you think you have the stock market all sussed out, it goes and slaps you in the face. Can you beat the market consistently? I have my doubts. Maybe on a long term view, but certainly not month by month.It looks as if my growth fears are not playing out (although steel [...]

So tired

It’s been a grim month in the markets. High levels of volatility, varying macro-economic data and rumours of various funds going bust all have meant that it’s not been easy to make money. Although I think our fund is ok, the pressure is clearly rising on everyone in this environment. Team is about to expand [...]

West Brom

Having watched a lot of the football from today I can only say…….congratulations to Fulham. I’ve seen a lot of Arsenal over the last few seasons and Fulham reminded me of them. There was so much flowing football and the finishing was immense, there were shots from long range and the team played with so [...]

Why I became a Christian

I’ve abandoned the blog for the last couple of weeks. Actually, abandoned may be too harsh. I think neglect is a better description actually. Work has been not so great (will explain later) and so the temptation has been to lose myself in FM05 (if you’re new to the blog this is a football management [...]