A bank holiday in the life of an investor

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Richard Beddard
Filed Under Ramblings, Reading list |

Six years after moving into our home, and six years after we started replacing the carpets with wooden flooring, I tackled the last remaining bastion of carpet yesterday - my daughter’s bedroom. But just to prove that this investor never completely downs tools, it was One up on Wall Street I was reading in my breaks, not Collins Complete DIY Manual, or the The Sun. The evidence is in the photo, resting against some of the remaining planks

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