Monday, 6th of Febr. 2012 Back in England the news is still doom-and-gloom and suddenly the government finds that there are not enough affordable rental houses and that they built the wrong ones in the last 20 years. My UK host lives in a newish apartment block where 50% of the flats are vacant; the owners who bought their properties in the hype period lost 40% of the overrated value and the flats do not fit family living and the rents are way too high. But somehow I have the feeling that the mood of the English is swinging and that the people start to understand that we are all going through a massive cleaning act for economic structures. They start to accept a long periond of non-growth and  stabilisation. As I said a long time ago: stay away from cheap overproductions, financial hypes and the sell-out of local productions and services. The only growing and profitable sector in Brittan is the farming industry; farm shops (not cheap) are the right way to teach the mega supermarkets a lesson that there comes an end to the overload of consumers with cheap crap and fatty unhealthy food upgraded by useless bonus points. Luckily the UK kept its best product alive: good old fashioned comedy like Mrs. Brown Boys.  I wish I could understand everything, but what I get is enough to leave me unconscious for laughing. And that makes me forget all doom-and-gloom. Cheers!