You just don’t know what is waiting around the next corner.  Everyone’s life is full of twists and turns, highs and lows, good times and hard times – that’s life!

A conversation at a family function over the weekend stuck in my mind…

It went something like this… “….only a week to go until payday… we’ve just got to hang in there… we can do it…”  And, I wonder how many people are saying these words or something similar, right around the world, because the economic situation is global and being felt everywhere.

Last year we went on a fantastic holiday, we were living the good life… and then along comes a twist and turn and now we are wondering how to make ends meet… that’s life!

And then great aunt Martha tracked me down… once aunt Martha gets hold of you, you are pinned down… not for a count of three… no ways!!!  She makes sure she gets her point across and there is not a lot of listening on her side… I have learnt the hard way… to nod politely and agree to everything.  There was only once that I disagreed and I won’t do that again!

Markie boy aren’t you into online poker?   Ye….yesss aunt Martha.

Well me and the girls have discovered cash bingo, do you know how much you can win?  And before I could answer… I had online bingo explained to me… Aunt Martha is on a high at the moment she has something new to look forward to.  And good for her!  Her husband left her a tidy inheritance so she doesn’t have to worry about making ends meet.

Other family members on the other hand do have to consider balancing the income and expenditure…