My life

I'm seriously thinking of taking the last of my pension out and putting it into the business account. This would mean I can have the last of it for buying shares. It might only be about $5000 but I can do a lot with that, and it's earning such a small amount in the Pension fund. I'm fed up with sitting around and worrying about money when I can use this money to get me out of the dark. No big problems at the moment, but we need a lot more incoming if we want to be free for the future. Having a... Sign in to see full entry.

This is a brief note to just keep the account alive. Nothing new, but nothing bad either. My teeth feel a lot better now my tooth is out, so I can concentrate on my other ills. If I was still in work, I would shrug them off, but now I sit and think about things too much. People moving in the village and I want to write more about village life, but I'm worried it might boil down to tittle-tattle. The money is doing OK, not as much as I would like but the market is so down right now there is... Sign in to see full entry.

The news is full of nothing else but the death of the Duke of Edinburgh. We will get this for days now. Then they will plan the funeral and the procession. The only people who are looking forward to it all are the flower sellers. Sign in to see full entry.

Finally had my tooth pulled this morning. The Novocain was so strong I could have pulled it out myself with a pair of plyers. (If I had the guts). Life is on the up. Everyone is talking about coming out of Lock-down and with a warm spell over the Easter Holiday, things look good. Sign in to see full entry.

Had my first Covid jab yesterday in Peterborough. Easy and fast. All I have to do now is get rid of this horrible toothache! Sign in to see full entry.

It is now one year since the S&P 500 dropped to its low point. Wiping out the fortunes of many, but my account did climb back up. It did teach me to get out out of currencies and stay in stocks, but at least I'm still here to talk about it. Sign in to see full entry.

This is a photo of my home town taken by the Luftwaffe in 1939, I think it was about the 3rd day of the war. They thought the factory was important, although when they bombed it they missed and hit a hen house. The chickens were shaken but not stirred. Sign in to see full entry.

Just a note to say I'm still here, even though I've nothing to say. Maybe better to say nothing than bore you all with a lot of nonsense about Chickens and floods and neighbours. I want to keep the account open, and I'm still toying with creative writing, but let's face it, the whole world and their brother are writing stories right now. Sign in to see full entry.

The whole market is down at the lowest point of the week. This looks like a horror show right now, but I just watched a video in which a guy pointed out that the 10-year yield Bonds went up. This means money flowed there and not the stock market. But he also pointed out that there was so little take-up of the bonds it looks like there is no appetite to buy us US debt. Bonds can't go up much more, and the market will go crazy once people are allowed out to spend their money. A bit worried, but we... Sign in to see full entry.

As of the time of writing the S&P500 is well down. I'm running at about $150 loss of the markets at the moment but hopefully, it's going up. This is the only way you can ever make any money from the market. It's a big headache waiting to see if you are even going to get your money back. But I've never come across anything else. This time last year was one of the biggest dips in the market ever. I held onto my positions and luck came out on my side. I had to move the stop-losses, which is... Sign in to see full entry.