Some price updates for the British Pound:

  • Cable 1.1992
  • EUR/GBP 0.8833
  • GBP/JPY 137.08

So, GBP weaker, what's going on?

It looks like Brexit will be hard. A GBP weekend recap shouldn't be.

Anyway, on to the subject matter of the post.

Apparently the third Monday in January is known as Blue Monday (I thought it was just a New Order song, but no ....):

WE'RE all feeling down now the Christmas revels are over, with little to look forward to, a hammered bank account, a bulge around the waist, gloomy weather and a return to work after weeks of partying.

These factors all come together in a perfect storm for a single day believed to be the most depressing of the year - 'Blue Monday'.

There is even a mathematical formula for working out the date of Blue Monday (at that link for more)

Anyway, I guess I'd better stick this in:

And, if you're a bit over that one, and feeling a bit like this: