Just back from lunch and the market indicators on the BBC web site are all green (momentarily). That hasn’t happened in a long time.

So, what shape is the downturn? Entrepreneur Charlie Hoult has made it the subject of a series of posts on his blog. His latest post draws on bathtub metaphors and inspiration from Flickr searches.

I haven’t yet taken a bath with my FTSE £1k confidence project but the water is getting chilly. Back in November I spotted that the FTSE 100 had started to fluctuate around a mean of 4,200. At the moment it’s on a downswing at 3,870. It’ll be back.

Charlie urges readers of his blog that are feeling gloomy to check out a video clip of Nick Vujicic a 23 year old motivational speaker from Australia. Now tell me what you’ve got to complain about.

Tags: equity, FTSE, investment, market, turnaround