What are you doing right now?

[Caspin]

I have not fully understood the Scottish football pyramid. I'll have to study a diagram of before and after the change.

The average earnings being quoted do seem rather high. They have probably included the wage of all employed people, with the average therefore being grossly distorted by the few very high earners right at the top. If they averaged the pay of 95% of people and omitted those outliers, it would no doubt turn out much lower and more recognisable as a reasonable figure. The people at the top really do skew things. For example if you had a company with one person earning 300K, then 5 people earning 25K and then ten people earning 15K, and took an average of everyone, it would be about 36K. But if you take out the boss with his massive salary and average just the 15 actual workers, it plummets to 18K.

Anyway, I suppose the actual figures don't matter so much as the simple fact that salaries are going down while the price of everything else is going up. I hope we don't see Tottenham Part 2, because Tottenham Part 1 was horrible, but you might be right.

Not only have the harvests here been poor but they are poor globally. The US lost loads of crops first because of fire and then because of flood. Also the wet Spring/Summer is causing problems for the bees and they already had enough woes. It has been hard to find British-grown veg sometimes and I do try to buy it in order to support the farmers. It was even difficult to get potatoes at one point.

Anyway, happier news is that not only are you enjoying Skyrim, which is truly a wonderful game, but you are harbouring Mayhem updates! I hope you can find a bit of time to post those up and I hope we all passed our exams!