Lest we forget

Digging through 'stuff' I came across a newspaper cutting of the 18 month old medium S Clark sitting under a Christmas Tree in December 1987.
Lovely photo!
But alongside the lovely photo is an article:
Interest Fall Tipped Home loans may hit 13%

"Home loan interest rates could fall (sic) to 13 per cent by March if economic conditions are favorable (sic) a loans expert has forecast."

We forget that the present rates (whilst not insignificant) at between 5%-9% are certainly not at the frightening rates of 25 years ago!.
Of course there is another side of the coin. My last position was funded by the sale of a building which was then invested at up to 18%...as interest rates fell to the 13% lows...and lower; there was not enough revenue to continue the funding.
As we hear the whining about economic decline we should look back to 1987!!

More resolutions

Following on from the resolutions blog the other day. One of the ten or so positive resolutions was to to talk 'health' rather than 'sickness'.
I think this is quite a good insight. As a person whose job requires much inane conversation just to pass the time of day, I realised many years ago that when people ask you "How are you?"they don't really want you to tell them.
In fact the redoubtable A. Musgrave Horner, my one time lecturer in Speech and Drama, hated this and would say if asked this inane question "I am EXTRAOOOOOORDINARILY well!" In a voice that would boom three blocks. You tended to never ask him again!
However I did think that talking of health rather than sickness does not just refer to disease, it is an attitude about how life is going. So we can choose to play it up or play it down .
Treasurers (in parish, club or nation) often have to address the sickness in order to be honest. They also need to recognise it is not only about sickness, but about how health might be achieved. And, indeed, health probably cannot be achieved if only the sickness framework is addressed.
It is about perspecvtive, and should easily be recognised as a good resolution...to talk health rather than sickness .