According to the BBC...

The house price falls, when you look at the statistics, are all clustered around Wokingham and that sort of area.

The Scottish Borders? Few sales (though per capita it might actually be quite good), no price movement - no fall over the year, but the rise of spring 2008 is eroded. And Brougham Place is below what they're pitching as "average house price" for the area for a distinctly above-average house.

Roll on spring. Roll on people looking at properties. Roll on March's bank funding movements.

*crosses fingers*

PT

The gym today consisted of meeting a personal trainer; I have no idea of costs and benefits so I figured the free session would be worth discussing.

He seemed somewhat surprised by the overall balance of my fitness - the weights I could lift given the state of the rest of me, for example - but had some good suggestions regarding the failures I had with the gym before with "attending" and "Hmm, I've reached my limit here". Tried some different exercises and routines, and surprisingly even taking into account that I strained myself on the new "pectoral" machine they have yesterday, I was able to do everything suggested including a decent set of pressups.

The cost is a bit high in that for what I want to do (get back to 2006 levels of fitness in a short space of time), I'd need too many sessions, so I've opted for one session per week, on Thursdays, with a programme for each week being suggested. That's affordable and I go in every day as I used to.

Just a small amount of exercise is working wonders for my head and overall fitness. Also, he reckons the right stretches will improve my flexibility, and I didn't bother with stretches before.

Will I be able to fit my pinstripe suit again? Will I fit my 1980s blue jeans?

Not that important.

However, I want to be able to be happy with my body again.