[font="Arial"]I can't help wondering...... if thousands of people in London are loosing their jobs at the moment... why can't you notice it if you are in and around the City of London. Have ALL the jobs been lost in Canary Warf? my job never takes me there so I would not know. My train is just as full as it ever was, the 6:19 from Lee to Charing Cross is so full you cannot read a newspaper, you still cannot get on a tube in rush hour unless you live close to the end of a line and the huge commuter army marching over London Bridge in the morning and evening rush does not appear to have diminished either.[/font]



[font="Arial"]Yet when I go to my usual sandwich bar Paulo and Claudio, the owners say business is terrible. I have to admit here and now to taking sandwiches for my lunch at the moment, but that is because in the West End of London, where I end up most lunch times, it is so expensive to buy a sandwich, and the queues are still very long that it is easier to take sandwiches, as well as the need to save money. A contractor taking sandwiches to work, times must be hard, but we all need to save money. With the exchange rate between the Euro and the Pound approaching equilibrium I have to make savings where ever I can. For the average man in the street it is inflation that is the problem, I don't care what government stats say prices have been rising rapidly on the everyday items leaving less and less left over.
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[font="Arial"]Anyway enough of that, I must be thankful I am still working, and my sympathies go out to anyone who is unemployed, I've been there too and it is not a nice experience. I still can’t help wondering if there are thousands of Clives out there, still going to work even though they have been made redundant. Clive is the side kick of Alex in the cartoons of the same name published in the Daily Telegraph.[/font]



[font="Arial"]Well since I am employed I had better get on with some work….[/font]



[font="Arial"]Cheers[/font]