My first blog!

Well. This is it. My blog. Everyone seems to be doing it, so.....

Why am I blogging? Because I want to write and more importantly, I want to make money out of writing. So I am imagining, in my fantasist way, that hoards of editors and publishers will be looking at my words of wit and wisdom and rushing me offers  - all of which I will accept! Yep, you got it, I am not proud and I am cheap...well, for the time being anyway.

A bit about me: I am an idle middle-aged male, early retired from the world of finance. I play a bit of tennis; intend to learn golf but never quite get round to it (and still subscribe to the Mark Twain aphorism on the subject); I support Tottenham Hotspur; I like beer...real beer that is; I play guitar and piano; I live in rural Kent but was born a cockney (kind of).

I am going to write stuff to entertain you! It will be on current affairs; economics; beer and music. And God knows what else. Think a cut-price Boris Johnson combined with a similarly low-rent Jeremy Clarkson. I will try and avoid writing about Spurs, because (a) so many others do it and (b) it's too depressing.

I'm not writing any more today...I've had beer at lunchtime and am playing tennis later, followed by watching Man City vs. Spurs. I refer you to the abridged CV above, with which this agenda seems to fit extraordinarily well.