I think I mentioned that the house next door was sold a month or so ago. Since when it’s been (noisily) stripped, refurbished and redecorated. The new owners and their kids put in an appearance today, with the latter taking the opportunity to lob several pieces of rotting fruit over the fence into my garden. Which is a promising start.

But, anyway, time is still at a premium. So I’ll leave you with an interesting article on how to deal with banks that are too big to fail.