From my notary with love

Wills and Brits do not get on well with each other.

Seven in every ten British citizens die without making a will. This happens in a country where do-it-yourself wills are sold at £4.99.

This is bad for your personal finances, Ruth Jackson, author of the article, tells her readers.

It’s also a legal no-no as it will create legal problems in the long run.

Getting a will drawn up by a solicitor can cost between £100 and £400, argues Jackson. Now, with these prices, wills are also a win-win situation. Just multipl the cheapest amount quoted by 70% of the British population and you’ll understand why lawyers in Britain should be clamouring for more wills as jobs in the financial services dwindle.

Lest we never forget

We are all mediators, translators.  – Jacques Derrida

Today is the Holocaust Rememberance Day, known in Hebrew asYom HaShoah. The death of six million Jews is remembered today. But, above all, we should remember that the force of hatred can lead to cruelty of monstrous proportions. 

I have here a lullaby in Yiddish, the Hebrew that was spoken among German and Eastern European Jews, dedicated to all those children who died in the Holocaust. There are also two interviews with holocaust survivors: