Money Money Money

Well, it's half term week and I'm looking after the little man for a few days. It's a great excuse to watch cartoons and play with the Scalextrix! He loves to go to Toys r Us and was emptying his wallet and asking me how much the contents would be able to buy there. As the sum total in there was about 4 quid I had to advise him "not a lot!!".
Anyway, I thought it was about time I tried to teach him something about the value of money, so I sat him on my knee, picked up one of his pound coins and asked him if he knew how many of them it took for us to be able to live in this house each month. His reply was "Four?".
"No mate", I said, "just to put this roof over our heads takes over 900 of these". He squealed in wonder "900?? WOW!!"
I continued "And then there's over a 100 each month for the council, 60 for the gas and electric, more for the water and there's loads go on food too!!"
He was somewhat stunned by this revelation, saying "that's lots and lots, Daddy!"
I was pretty stunned too, so I'm now off for a little lie down...

Back Again

I just remembered I had this blog thingy set up, so I thought I really ought to be a little bit more committed (yeah, I know, should have been committed to a place with soft walls years ago) to actually writing something in it.
So, in a nutshell, I have returned and will try and tear myself away from facebook long enough to actually have something to write about...watch this space, well, not this space specifically, but the other ones that will contain some inane drivel, you get the picture...