unbelievable, page-20

Hmmm...the market is now giving us the spanking we probably were due as a result of our recent troubles.

But from the personal experience of standing outside the headmasters room on many, many occasions, awaiting the "birch", the sting doesn't last long, you just grin and bear it, for it is quickly forgotten.

Right now, we can inwardly relax knowing that we have our finances shored up. More than a handful of resource companies are about to meet the eye of the European storm with inadequate funding to see them through.

Oh yes, the old Phantom comic down the back of the trousers trick always took the brunt of the sting! I never could work out why the headmaster was so dumb in this regard!