Happily Ever After
Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running
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It Was Good While It Lasted
by admin - 20:59 on 15 October 2010
My hopes of becoming an oil baron took a severe knock this week – one of the Falkland explorers entrusted with my savings revised downward the estimate of the oil it's found; the other declared that the well it's drilled for the past two weeks has found nothing.
In two days my 150% paper profit has fallen to 48%, and there's no that guarantee the fall will have stopped when the stock markets reopen on Monday. Plans for early retirement and world travel are no more.
But the dream remains. The company that's found oil plans more research (which could revise its estimate back up) and more drills next year; the one that's found nothing has enough funds in its piggy bank to sink three more wells this year.
I won't cash in my shares just yet. Who knows what's around the corner.
I took my mind off the Falklands today with more work on The Bumper Book of Black Isle Snappery, at the end of which the magnum opus had reached ninety superbly designed pages. I estimate the finished tome will have around 120.
The first draft could be complete by the end of the week; Dolphin James is beside himself with excitement.
If all goes well, and the three contributors can agree a finished version (and whose work gets to grace the cover), this volume of top snappery could be available to buy in December. Just in time for Christmas.
I suspect it might make more money than my oil shares return.
Camera Club Update: The results of the season's first competition were revealed yesterday. My efforts didn't even make it into the top ten. It looks like my reign as the club's Photographer of the Year (joint) could be a short one.
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