SUPPLEMENTING YOUR PENSION?

The world's gone mad. But then most of our generation knew that anyway.

How about this as an idea for supplementing your pension? Go to the the Victoria and Albert Museum and help yourself to some soup in their restaurant. Claim that you burnt your thumb in the process and they may award you £400.

Or how about trespassing at Carlisle Castle in the early hours of the morning (say about 2am) and falling into the moat? Have a go at this one and you could get £15,000 - that's about 3 years worth of the basic States Pension.

You might laugh, but both of these incidents actually happened according to a survey in the Sunday Telegraph.

Tourist attractions are having to pay out millions of pounds to visitors who have 'accidents' on their premises. Whatever happened to personal responsibility?

Now, of course, I'm not advocating anything so extreme as a way of increasing your pension or getting a retirement income going. Like I said, the world's gone mad.

Be well.