7:15am  ~  Good morning to you all, I am up early this morning as I am off to my solicitors in a minute to get all the paperwork signed and hand over the money to purchase a house over here in Carvoeiro. Once that’s done we are driving up to Puerto Banus in Spain for the evening to see a friend quickly and then catching a flight back to Stansted tomorrow if I can find a flight.

My broadband has not been great over the past few days (hence this blog has not been updated regularly), but it does seem to behaving itself this morning, so I’m going to have a few hours on this laptop answering customer emails before we start our long drive north east into Spain. Not much trading for me this week due to this broadband problem but will update this blog with details later this morning.

News this morning on Sky TV was the fact that Moody’s Credit Rating Agency in the U.S. have put the UK on alert that they could downgrade our credit rating due to the lack of growth at the moment – you can read the full story here