Today I received my quarterly review of my portfolio and I thought I would report it for a record, that they believe there will only be two interest rate cuts in 2025.
If this is the case, it won’t be great news for people or companies with all tax changes and increases that will come in April this year.
Let’s see if they are correct with their forecast, hopefully not.
Tonight was the final night of UK Traitors series 3, we had never watched it before, but had seen several clips on GoggleBox and thought we would give it a try.
We both really enjoyed it and Claudia Winkleman is a brilliant presenter of the show. It was a shame at the end that the people couldn’t trust each other, as there were 4 faithful’s left, but 2 were banished in the final task.
What colours in the sunrise today.
As the weather was decent, we drove up to Battersea Park and had walk along river Thames and crossed over at Albert Bridge and then walked the Thames on that side before crossing back over at Chelsea Bridge.
We then spent some time in Battersea Power Station, where we had a yummy baguette and coffee, before go back home.
Another month and another NHS health insight survey.
I have definitely seen an improvement in the last year with seeing a doctor in a reasonable time.
Though I do wonder how people cope that have no computer or computer skills as you have do an online request.
I think London looks lovely during the night time and with the light reflection off the River Thames.
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In late afternoon we took a train trip up to Battersea to have a look around before all the Christmas stuff was taken down.
Some pictures from the trip.
Leeds United 1 – Manchester United 1 – HT 0-0
B. Aaronson (62′) Matheus Cunha (65′)
Assists –
P. Struijk (62′) J. Zirkzee (65′)
Venue: Elland Road Attendance: 36,909
After a great month in December where we managed to stay unbeaten and open a gap from the bottom teams, could we continue that into 2026, playing one of our fierce rivals Manchester United?
Manchester United’s poor run of form continued at Elland Road, but head coach Ruben Amorim had Matheus Cunha to thank for his side not suffering even more damage against Leeds.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin headed a first-half effort against the post for the in-form hosts before Brenden Aaronson finished superbly with a low, 62nd-minute effort.
At that stage, Amorim was in the firing line after his side had failed to beat bottom-of-the-table Wolves at Old Trafford on Tuesday.
However, against opponents who had two days less to prepare, Cunha levelled three minutes later when he ran on to a pass from substitute Joshua Zirkzee and slid a shot underneath advancing Leeds goalkeeper Lucas Perri.
It was only the Brazilian’s fourth goal since his £62.5m summer move from Wolves and came at a time when Amorim is without four key attacking players because of a combination of injury and international duty.
Not that Leeds will care about that given their lack of preparation time.
Noah Okafor forced a full length save out of Manchester United goalkeeper Senne Lammens with a spectacular overhead kick and visiting heads were in hands when Benjamin Sesko, who is struggling to make an impact, turned Zirkzee’s cut-back wide from six yards.
Cunha, who had a goal ruled out for offside much earlier in the contest, also fired against a post late on.
The point extends Leeds‘s unbeaten run to seven games, their longest since 2001, and takes them eight points clear of the relegation zone.
For the visitors though, it was yet another opportunity to move into fourth spot, albeit only for a matter of hours, wasted.
So, another important point and continue our unbeaten run. This is great to see that we are competing against the teams in the top of league and should enable us to stay in Premier League.
Marching On Together.
League position 16th after 20 games.
