We are saving. We are saving. La la la lah, la la laaaaa.<\/p>\n
Sad but true.<\/p>\n
We are being very busy not spending money. Apart from living costs. And rent. And Vin’s livery fees.<\/p>\n
But there is much much not spending going on.<\/p>\n
For two reasons really.<\/p>\n
The first is that being self-employed I sleep so much easier at night with a wodge of capital in the bank. And my contract is due to conclude with the delivery of this project – around the end of January.<\/p>\n
The second is that we may just take a bit of a break next year; go somewhere… different. Just for us. But see above comment regarding wodge of capital.<\/p>\n
But it’s good, all this saving stuff. It means the banks are paying us money. Even if what they’re paying us is a small portion of our money that our government has just given away to, erm, the banks.<\/p>\n
It’s a kind of reverse arbitrage really, a credit default swap gone tits up (to use the technical phrase).<\/p>\n
The interesting thing about all this financial tits uppery (to use the technical phrase again) is that when I was a currency dealer (just over 10 years experience of trading before I got out quickly) ever major financial institution employed people who we called limits clerks. It was the job of every limits clerk to check a proposed trade against:<\/p>\n
* geographical limit (i.e. country!),
\n* financial limit (i.e. who is the party on the other side of this trade and how much are they already in to us for) and
\n* recovery limit (if this goes tits up, how much can we recover before we call it a dead loss).<\/p>\n
And if any of the results of those limit searches came back negative the trade didn’t go ahead.<\/p>\n
It seems that some simple credit protection measures we had in place once upon a time have been relaxed a little too well.<\/p>\n
Anyway, back to the point.<\/p>\n
We are busy not spending.<\/p>\n
And Soph starts work in her new job on Monday.<\/p>\n
Which will bring in more lovely money for us to stash in our bank accounts for the banks to pay us interest on with our money before the planned\/not planned excursion arrives and we empty the banks of all our lolly.<\/p>\n
Anyway, point is…<\/p>\n
I think we (will) deserve a little break. Around Christmas, if we can juggle our time off to correspond.<\/p>\n
But I’m fresh out of ideas and inspiration, so I thought I’d throw myself on the mercy of the court, so to speak, and see if you’ve got any helpful ideas for a short Christmas-time break for the two of us that would be to somewhere different<\/em>, but isn’t going to make a significant impact on our savings.<\/p>\n Huh?<\/p>\n B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are saving. We are saving. La la la lah, la la laaaaa. Sad but true. We are being very busy not spending money. Apart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}