Friday's the new Saturday?

Fridays

Just from the traffic volume alone the amount of people working on a Friday must be low, and this is further evidenced with the amount of people at work or leaving in droves between 2 and 4pm, Luke Johnson in his excellent article in the Sunday Times you have to make sacrifices to get on, most people just want to do the minimum.

The Fixer

This is one of my favourite programmes of the week, which casts Alex Polizzi as a fixer for small businesses who are struggling or are on the verge of going bankrupt, some of the things that the people are doing definitely need pointing out but where it loses credibility, is the budget available for the turn round is disproportionate to what the business could afford, getting top professional help is what everybody would love to do but they don't have the budget or contacts to engage this kind of help.

General Election

Despite on the key pointers PM Approval and economy the Conservatives are miles ahead, Labour stay stubbornly ahead, I think the public rather than liking Labour just don't like Cameron and Osborne.

Cricket World Cup

CWC 2015 started this week despite the tournament still being far to long, the opening games have been good, Australia versus South Africa or New Zealand will surely be the final.

Twitter

I have recently returned to Twitter, using it primarily as a newsfeed, I am keeping the sources I follow to no more than 50, how anyone can follow 500+ accounts and keep up with anything is beyond me.

Tony Mccoy and GE 2015 hotting up

Tony Mccoy

A complete legend, brilliant rider and ambassador for his sport. Does Richard Johnson have enough left in the tank to finally be champion?


Politics

Watched an excellent documentary this week about the House of Commons, the building is quite amazing, and they made a great point that they are trying to run a 21st century modern government in a Victorian palace, i do like the old traditions so hopefully they will find a happy medium.

On the General Election front, I am still convinced that the UKIP vote is being overstated and they will do well to hold the seats they have and only have an outside chance of Farage winning Thanet South.

A good piece on Conservative Home, outlining that the Conservatives are ahead on all the key indicators apart from the key one of voting indicators.

Investing

Insightful piece this week on one of my favourite fund managers Nick Train, where he stated he hadn't bought a new share for 3 years, just juggled his existing portfolio, which shows it is best to stick to what you know.

Different Year Same Result

Australian sport morning

It was like watching repeats yesterday, Murray losing again the Australian open, and the cricket team falling apart against Australia in the one day international.

On the cricket the team still looks unbalanced, I really feel we need to play Tredwell just for some variance, I would swop Bopara out, I don't think if it come down to it he could see a big game home.

Dramas

Still sticking with Broadchurch it finally looked like like getting going last week, but if Joe Miller didn't do it the whole first season was a waste of time, Fortitude started this week on sky and took a while building all the charachters up, it certainly has potential with Chief Anderson looking a perfect villain.

Football Tv Rights

Glad that match of the day is staying on BBC, funny that Itv didn't bid given they have lost the champions league, their sport output is now virtually zero. It will be very interesting to see who gets the live premier league rights, I have a feeling BT will try and break the bank to kill off Sky.

Crossy Road

The new flappy bird very simple and very addictive!