The Fool On The Hill

Well, a brand new Blog - And like a new child in the family the first thought of the parents is - What to call it?

It was a question that I puzzled over for several weeks. I would see a strange place-name or read a line in a book that would give me an idea or I would have one of those rare flashes of inspiration that would satisfy me for the remaining part of the day but on the following morning I would turn the name over again in my mind and once again reject it as meaningless, stupid, unattractive or whatever.

Then, for no particular reason, my wife pointed out to me that the popular TV program (in Spain that is) - ´Un Loco en la Colina´ was named after a famous Beatles song. That's it, I thought, catchy but full of meaning, a sign of my distant misspent youth and a tongue-in-cheek knock at myself. The hill part was very true for there are enough hills around here to satisfy anyone who enjoys the odd climb and at first the inclusion of the word fool in the title didn't worry me.

But then, as you do, tuning it over in my head the following day I got a bit apprehensive about the business of addressing myself to the whole world, or at least that part on the internet, as a fool on a hill. Of course, I didn't have to tell anyone that it was me, most of the Blogs out there rely on a certain amount of anominity. And its true there have been occasions when people have called me a fool although, of course, secretly I have never agreed with them.

Well, now I do. At this precise moment I do feel a bit of a idiot. AFINSA, a company that operates using an investment in stamps and works of art to provide an income to its investors and in which I have subsequently invested large amounts of my hard earned wedges, ( well not that hard-earned, but you get the gist ) has been closed down with police tape over the big fancy doors and several of the directors have been carted off and placed under lock and key. Strange how those fancy doors and expensive paintings in the foyer had at the time reassured me about the worthiness of the company but at this moment serve only to remind me of my own stupidity.

So at the moment I am left feel nothing less that a complete dunce in believing in such a risky idea. I keep telling myself that I should have checked more, done this or done that, but I didn't. Don't put all your eggs in one basket a little voice kept telling me. All to no avail. Other people I knew well had done the same thing and I trusted their opinions. They couldn't be wrong, could they?

Well, it appears that they can. Although reports over the last few days seem encouraging and hopeful and bring out the optimist in me its completely unknown at the moment when and if I will ever see my money again.

Oh well, thats life. No use moaning about it. Pass me my walking shoes and that old jacket of mine and lets go climb that hill again.