Not for the first time my credit card has been compromised, this time by someone wanting to use my pension for downloading pop music from Napster.   Last time an Italian "gentleman" took his floosy out to dinner in Rome at the precise moment that I was taking my wife out to dinner in London.  Next day he tried, and failed, to buy his friend 500 Euros worth of jewelry in Rome.  The credit card company, I must say, wins the award for the most vigilant company on the planet.

If you added credit card fraud to pornography, drug peddling and white collar stealing, sleazy theft must rank  as the biggest growth industry in the world, maybe bigger even that flogging weapons to every Tom , Dick and Harry in the developed world.  Hurrah for the human race! 

 (Whoops, sorry !  Of course, everything is wonderful, positive and  improving.  Must get that into my head!)

 Meanwhile, I don’t have a usable credit card.   I’ll think I’ll just rest in the garden.