1992

and I was getting savings interest a little over 13%. I shudder to think what I was paying for the mortgage in those innocent days.

The paper clearout continues and the day has helped fill the recycling bin - even without all the bank statements and payslips, which have been burned even though the accounts are long closed and the jobs long vanished. It comes of spending two years watching the HQ BAOR burn bags being delivered to the furnace across from the office in Rheindahlen. What was BAOR ? Well, boys and girls, once upon a time an iron curtain fell from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic ....