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Thanks bunny, feel a bit full after scoffing all those pasties, but it would be a shame to let the sarnies go to waste. ;-)

I'm hanging about for the beige book at 6pm, well actually I'm reading to be honest with half an eye on my s/b LOL

Join the club... What you reading? And not to be picky, but I thought the BB came out at 2pm there time, so 7 ours?

LOl you are right I'm back in GMT ;>) Oh well another hour to read!
I'm reading Colin Thubron's Among The Russians - recount of his journey before the iron curtain really came down in the early 80's.
What are you reading?

Sounds a bit intellectual!!!
Meant to be reading up on balance of payments and IS/LM stuff, but in reality keep going back to Clarksons Born to be Riled :-)

Far from intellectual I assure you, interesting though, I like different travel/adventure type books and as a single person travelling alone in Russia at that time he was a novelty item ;>)

Clarkson - read one a while back, a collection of his newspaper columns about life in general, number two son has the You've Got Soul (or something like that) one.

Have to read it at some point then. Number two son's got taste... about machines that are more than just machines if I remember correctly.

Looks like the markets waiting for the BB as well.

Yes I'm going to fix another cuppa and sneak out for a ciggie - back shortly ;>)
Still at least even with BST and 7pm not 6pm, it leaves time to go and watch Property Ladder and The Apprentice afterwards - ahh the joys of simple living :>)
(It's OK...bunny's are odd) LOL

Hello all, another day of hard graft under my belt. Any grub left, I'm a bit peckish?

Have a chicken sarnie Socs. Take it you had to put the hammock up yourself then, if the days been so hard?

Bunny, your idea of simple living is slightly different to mine. The look of horror on a friends face when she stayed down here for a few days and realised there was no TV... it was priceless. Give me a book and intelligent company any day. Admittedly it does get tiring having to talk to yourself the whole time!!!

Hush! We're reading.....look in the fridge...... probably some cold chicken and salad.

JS - ah couldn't live without my usual fixes of news and selected programmes ;>)

Right... decided I'm feeling peckish again, so off to cook something. Don't know what, as I don't seem to have much in. Fish, fish, or fish by the looks of things!

Guess it's fish then ;>)

I'd like to reserve a danish for tomorrow morning, just in case.

OK, chicken butty it is. I've got some onion relish to spice it up a bit. A nice mug of tea and a sticky bun will round it off nicely.

Sounds like you've got it all sorted then Socs :>)
Ok Keaydian - I'll write it in the dust on the top if the fridge.....
;>)

Well that (beige book) made a bundle of difference LOL not that anything seems to at the moment, seems the Dow is hell bent on onwards and upwards regardless.

Bunny, the Dow's performance really does lead me to believe that markets react to crowd psychology and have nothing to do with inconveinient economic or financial details!

Did an interesting piece of research for my Masters Thesis on market behaviour. Relatively inconclusive because of lack of data, but the results I did get basically said that everybody follows America, and America follows itself.

Absolutely the books I have read on crowd psychology in relation to the market seem to hold the greatest truth - guess its tulips all over again LOL

No single asset this time, and hopefully we wont be seeing volatility of 2000% per month! The lack of a single asset appears to be the difference to the majority of previous bubbles. Of course the previous period that had very similar situations was back in the 1920's. Anyone remember what happened after that?