Safe as houses

So the FTSE 100 did get down to the 3,000's.

But have we seen the bottom yet?

Chateau Angelus 1996 is still available at the wine bar at the end of the road at the knockdown price of £195 a bottle. And if that doesn't quite stretch the credulity, then there's still the La Tache 1982, Domaine Romanée Conti, at £1,200 a pop.

On Channel 4, the 'phenomenally successful' A Place in the Sun is still promoting dream homes in Sicily where, apparently, there is much less organised crime than there used to be. Amanda Lamb, its presenter, also fronts A Place in the Sun Revisited, Celebrity A Place in the Sun and Top Twenty Best for Channel 4.

Born in Portsmouth in a spot that is now the M27, Amanda was an estate agent for four years and then a model for six years. Amanda has appeared in commercials for companies as diverse as Gossard, Oil of Olay and Remington.

Maybe TV companies feel these lifestyle programmes, fuelled by credit mania, must be shown because they're still in the can.

What else from the pre-October 2008 era is still in the can?

Websites with text in unreadable grey font and flash animations on the home page?

Must remember to ask my financial adviser about his modelling career.

And maybe the next series of A Place in the Sun will be hosted by Margaret Beckett from Mablethorpe Caravan Park.