Interesting...

Cath has finished her studying - in Ireland anyway - so it was time to get rid of her notes. There were quite a few... I think we need to hire a moving company to take them to a recycling depot.

Haha, Cath has piles - of books and files that is. No wonder her exams are so bloody easy... I mean they're open book exams - all you need to do is have these piles with you in the exams and you've got all your answers there with you. What was she moaning about. Lazy wretch.

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I found this article in the London Telegraph - one of my favourite newspapers. This was in the business section - which I never read - but since it had this nice picture on the front page, I gave that a squizz... and lo and behold, note South Africa's figures against the other countries...
Click on it for a bigger sqizz.

So SA has the best 2nd quarter of any country in the G20 and we still get screwed against the dollar. Sigh. Such little justice.

I went and did a dig a few weeks later and found out that SA's GDP for the third quarter was plus 0.2 percent - still in the positive. Which means that, officially, South Africa is at worst, still
6 months away from being in a recession.

Ireland by the by, looks like having negative growth of minus 5% for the year (or so they're saying). Which probably hurts my euros against the rand damn it. Come on Ireland, get your act together!