Money

I have a lot of loose change in my house. The other day I decided to count it up, the first step in which process was to separate the coins into their different denominations. That though is as far as I've got, the reason being that I really like having these piles of coins around. I'm like the old-fashioned miser who spends his evenings counting his money. Except I don't count them - I just like having them around. This - literally - is money, isn't it? Money these days is increasingly notional - it resides in bank accounts and is used via a plastic card - we never really get our hands on it. Well, I have my hands on it - I am surrounded by pots of 20p's, pots of 5p's, pots of one pound coins - and I like it. With this money I can buy anything, or, on the other hand, I can just keep it.