Abstract :
MY EVIL coalition parents say the money has run out and we´re all going to have to tighten our belts. For my mum, this means ringing up everyone she´s ever brushed against in a lift to see if there´s any work out there for a small IT consultancy on its uppers. Tough gig: in the recession ocean there´s a lot of big IT firms sharking around looking for the sort of krill they´d normally have ignored. And my poor little cleaner fish mum is becoming fish food.