Make do and Mend...

After a jolly month of transferring some of the children out of the posh school and into the local state school, Miss Make do and Mend, well, has a lot to write about!  In a small London village such as ours, well, such a move was the talk of the town.  Long faces, hungry for gossip would lunge toward the poppets and I on the playground and speak in that hushed tone reserved for obituaries and such.  The big question of course, was, could we still be posh?  Could they speak to us ever again?   Having one child in the most coveted state school and the other in the private prep made us - "interesting".  In other words -- Social Confusion reigns! Miss Make do and Mend finds it all quite an entertaining parody of the British class system and promises to report with diligence.  Along the way, a sprinkling of juicy market morsels and facts which obsess me to no end will appear.  For instance, did you know one could buy a credit derivative swap on the US Government?  Indeed...one can bet on its demise and profit on it disappearing.  The most interesting part of that is - well - the price of the swaps are getting higher...more are thinking that it will indeed fold and wither like a dehydrated dinosaur....