Do you still use a cheque book?that's check to you lot over the pond by the way.I just wondered how many do nowadays,a neighbour I met earlier said she was going to post a cheque for something.

That got me thinking about the last cheque I wrote or indeed where my cheque book is. I wandered off to find it and discovered the last cheque was my quarterly electricity bill written in October 2008 for the princely sum of £27:41,the bill for the same period last year was £84:30. This year is even higher but that is because I now cook with electricity.

No smart arsed politician can convince me the power companies are playing fair no matter how they try.