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Wed 07 Jul 2007Sit tight, it'll be fineHere's a good one. It was buried deep in last week's Exchequer returns figures. If it weren't for an eagle-eyed colleague of mine, I would've missed it. She understands these things, whereas deciphering detailed financial data is not my forte.Put an ancient papyrus inscribed with faded hieroglyphics before me alongside a Department of Finance press release, and I'd be hard-pressed to tell which was which. Which is probably why I'm sitting on a hard bench in tattered rags writing this and not bathing in liquid gold, using €1 million notes to light massive Cuban cigars rolled for me by Miss Havana 2007 on her silken-skinned thighs.