Talk of the brown
T’S May and the sun should be shining. Hurrah! Boris has produced a ‘roadmap to recovery’. Double hurrah! Although I wonder how many in these days of computerised talking maps can navigate a paper map, let alone a BJ-inspired ‘happy days are here again’ roadmap. But, let’s not carp. Talking of which, the fishing season is here again and I for one cannot wait for my first trip to the bank to go (brown trout). So, after a long winter of tedium, I’m putting all my negativities aside and I am going to be super-duper positive this month. I will even avoid my ongoing: ‘Why are people paying so much for antiques at auction?’ puzzlement. That said (sorry), I discovered the definitive answer to that question in a recent newspaper headline: ‘Households are sitting on £180 billion of savings’. That buys armouries full of swords and guns, and warehouses of vintage cars and fine claret, at auction.
