My life

Our local town is Stamford. And the road system has changed little since the Victorian age. In the old days, there was no such thing as Tarmac so they just used ash from the fires. This was just trampled in and they hoped for the best. As you can imagine, road repair was just luck. But when the army came in during the war, they surfaced most of the roads with Tarmac. Many of the roads around here have never been serviced since. So when Potholes spring up the Council just hope a magic fairy is... Sign in to see full entry.

We had a burst pipe in the village yesterday and had to ration water for 48 hours. Now it was not just a matter of no shaving or washing up, we were worried about drinking water, and more importantly, Mother was worried about water for her horse. Just makes you think about how little it takes to knock us back to the middle ages. Ironic really, as the name of our village is: Tinwell. Which some people took to mean Village of the 10 Wells. Some of the old houses still have wells in their cellars,... Sign in to see full entry.

The Crypto's have gone a bit mad of late. As I look at it today, they all took a dip, but this is a good thing as people are only going to buy them when they are cheap enough. When it all started the idea was to have a currency that could transfer money between countries without the monstrous fees. But as it grew in popularity something happened. The price went up then stopped. Stopped dead. When you think about it, what would happen if someone gave you a gold coin? You would think: "This is too... Sign in to see full entry.

This is just a brief note to keep the account going. Not much going on here in the UK. Very cold. Well, cold for us. We have had such mild winters here for the past 5 years so we have to get used to it again. Not that it will last much longer, as the gulf stream keep us warm. Lockdown has proved more mind-numbingly boring than anyone would have imagined. I don't miss large crowds of people any more. I think it's because I worked in a very large supermarket and got used to meeting hundreds of... Sign in to see full entry.

Non-Farm Payroll day. This is not as important as it once was, but it still packs a punch. Traditionally it was something to do with calculating the total employed people in the USA for that month. It got in a mess because they could never work out how many people worked the land, especially during harvest. So they made the decision to work out everything BUT the farmhands. When I first started trading it could jump like a lottery win, but now it hardly moves. It still makes a difference for the... Sign in to see full entry.

A big down day for all the stock market, but sadly one we were all expecting. Some stocks were deliberately manipulated by users on Reddit and Robin Hood. Gamestop was hyped to the point of madness, going up 1,000%. This is a disaster for anyone wanting to make genuine money. When it gets like this, the best thing to do is stay away! The Indexes are designed to go up not down and I'm convinced they will recover. There are delegated places where the indexes like the S&P 500 are expected to go... Sign in to see full entry.

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Keeping on. Just to keep my hand in, I would love to talk about the stock market. Not the sexiest of subjects, but one which had done well for me in the past months. I've given up on currencies as you can't predict which direction they are moving in. Who would have thought the Dollar would fall so low and then begin to pick up? So there is no way of guessing where it's going. Stocks are very different. Everyone in that company is working towards one goal, and that is to help the company make... Sign in to see full entry.

I'm writing this simply to keep my account alive and join in. Little had happened here, and there is nothing of real note to talk about, but I see other people keeping their writing accounts going and I feel I should do the same. One thing I have noticed since the old days here, is that I no longer use Firefox as a browser. I used Firefox for years, ever since they changed over from Mozzila and had no problems with them. Then they changed things. I had such trouble signing into my accounts that... Sign in to see full entry.

I could not end the year without making at least one entry. Mainly to say: "Hi" and to thank anyone who read these daft entries. Strange year. Good for us, bad for everyone else. This account was mainly for me. To hear the sound of my own voice telling myself how clever I was, and I never thought anybody else would stop by. My business account on Etoro was made more money in the past 2 months than the previous 6 years. So I might as well be honest and say things are going great. Maybe not enough... Sign in to see full entry.