How black is black?

If I had to assign colours to the days of the week there is always a chance that Monday, depending upon the range of colours that I was able to choose from, would always be black, or at least a shade of grey.

Contrast that grey/black Monday morning feeling with a Friday afternoon in June which most definitely has a golden yellow feel to it.

Or the green of a Thursday, the red of a Saturday, the blue of a Sunday or...(as some would say) "whatever" colours work for you.

However, whether signified by an association to colours or not, one's views of how good or bad a specific day is, will also be dependent not only upon your outlook but also upon your circumstances.

If you are homeless, jobless, friendless, and penniless - every day may be grey or black (or yellow for that matter), and are less influenced by outside events.

A fall in house prices - matters little when your "home" is a cardboard box! A rise in unemployment - is potentially an increase in neighbours!

The 3rd Monday of the year (as yesterday was) being the day when apparently more workers are off sick from work than any other, has been scientifically"proven" to be the "blackest" day of the year.

However, this means diddlysquat when you are absent from work every day of the year, being one of the long term jobless, and would swap with anybody for just one day of paid employment to be able to buy a coffee or a hot evening meal.

As for the stock market crash and the prospect of recession? "Bring it on!" they shout.

A fall of 323.5 points on London's FTSE 100 in itself may be a source of warmth. More headlines and "column inches" dedicated to the world's financial woes, mean more newspaper pages and with them more protection against the cold as one lies in a doorway in a City somewhere.

So as you sit and moan about the reduction in your "net worth" or paper asset value, look around you. If you see four walls, a computer screen, a TV, a hot meal (or the remains of one) a friendly and familiar face and a glass of wine....then whine no more.

If you see a doorway, empty fast food containers, a cardboard box and a sleeping bag then...

...Well you won't actually because readership of this Blog has barely reached the affluent masses, let alone street people, and even if it had, you don't see many of them with a BlackBerry!

Cue music playing in the background - Ian Drury and the Blockheads -Reasons to be cheerful, 1, 2, 3....