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Petrol 112.9/litre

God I feel rough. A night out in St Albans coupled with a dodgy chest infection and boy do I feel it this morning. Sweating like a pig, lovely!

So one house exchanged last week and that's good business at the moment. It's the first money that's come in in months. I still think we'll be closing in December as I can't see the financial fog lifting for a long time yet, especially when Alistair Darling announces that we're entering an 'economic crisis' after months of saying that actually everything's fine. It's like some random swingometer that doesn't stop in the middle. It's either fine or it's a crisis. Great!

I can't believe the prices some houses are down to now. Seriously low. Some have dropped by up to about 30% and still no interest. Yet people are still putting their properties on the market and still being surprised at how low their valuations are being.

And some more good news in the shape of a completion at the end of next week as I've just witnessed the signing of a mortgage offer so that should all happen pretty quickly now with any luck at all.