Claer Barrett and Charlotte Moore are two of my top journos because they write about the things we daren’t say. Charlotte’s got a hilarious article this week about bringing DB pensions back so under employed active fund managers can have something to do.

Of course we need asset managers employed , what with Government plans to make pensions more efficient, a return to the  advantages of at least one asset management dinner a week is overdue.

But the best article of the week is in the FT and comes from Claer. 

If you are so hard up (digitally) that you can’t afford an FT subscription and you can read this free (if you front of the queue in the cashless queue)

I hope that the FT marketing department recognise that I am introducing at least three people to the delights of Claer’s irony!

The problem with cash is almost all the things we can spend cash on – working girls/boys, non-Boots/Superdrug drugs or Aldi in Dedham last Monday are not advertised in the FT.

Like DB pensions, we need to recognise the value of having a good time. DB pensions have been supplanted by digital savings plans for the masses, cash is now confined to illicit or working class activities (formerly known as the cash economy).

I am preparing to go from Eton (where I am) to Blackfriars in London to meet Greg from Homerton hospital at 10am. He is coming to my flat in London to rehabilitate me after my cycle crash on November 15th, I got a kind mail from Sarah from Homerton rehabilitation on January 20th a month after I had left hospital

I am an Occupational Therapist (OT) working as a neuro-navigator within Hackney Adult Community Rehabilitation Team (ACRT). You were referred to our service for OT and Speech therapy by Sophie Drew, who was working with you when you were at Kings after your accident. You are presently on the waiting list to be assessed by the team.

Well here we are  on April 25th and I am going to be assessed to see if I can go back on the road. Presumably I have been sitting idle (in their eyes) for the past three months , they were stoked into action by my GP who wondered when the rehabilitation happened.

The Hackney Adult Community Rehabilitation Team had told him that they did not see me as a priority, Clearly they do now, though this may be due to the three stays in hospital I’ve had in the past six weeks.

So I will go to London with Claer’s call for me to spend cash in my ears. I will go with Charlotte’s demand we re-employ under-employed active managers and I will give the assessor of the HACRT the opportunity to assess whether I am worth rehabilitating.

It seems Fridays are worthwhile once more! I may well take Claer’s suggestion and have a day in the black market, my household keeps a cash stash in case we revert to supermarket failure (as happened in Aldi) or other uses (historic activities in Plowman’s lifestyle). For Claer there is a need for life outside of FT advertised lifestyle, I will speak about this to Greg the Homerton the speech rehabilitate. I might drop Charlotte a line about upcoming Mallowstreet  street-walking. Cash is the way forward.

the need to keep the UK’s cash infrastructure alive, suggest those hoarding physical money should get out there and spend, spend, spend it.