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I have just received yet another 'So long, and thanks for all the fish' email - where someone who's been made redundant has written to say goodbye and thanks for all your support, etc etc. It makes me sad.

Well it was only a matter of time really. A CEO under whose tenure the share price lost 80% of its value was never going to really be around to see this thing through.

The phrase: "turnover is vanity, profit is sanity" has been trotted out so much over the years I've been in this business that it's become a cliché. But, like all clichés, it's become one simply because it is true.

The UK has a budget deficit of £178bn and growing. Oh my, that's a lot of money.

So we finally know the price that Travis Perkins has put upon the BSS business. £557m is a lot of money. But then they are buying a lot of business. It represents an uplift of 37% on the share price the day before the announcement was made which is a pretty good deal in my…

So here we are again. Just nine months after the country ground to a halt because of the appalling snowfall in February the country is now 'whited-out' as one particularly enthusiastic local TV news reporter said last night.

So let me get this straight. I've returned from holiday to find that we've slipped through a hole in the space/time continuum and gone back in time.

The greenest Government ever? In your dreams, David Cameron.

If any day was designed to be a "duvet day", today is it.

Dear Mr Cameron. Um, What the- insert own expletive here - are you playing at?