“The water on the surface of the lake can reflect the clouds and the trees but knows not its own depth.”
The above words are said to have been written by Omar Khayya’m who was a Persian, born many centuries ago, a notable poet in his time with a gift for a play on words.
I am better at words than at figures and I should have referred to a sum of $4.18 billion and not $4.81 billion when quoting the total allocation set out in last week’s 2015 Budget, dubbed the ‘Peoples Budget, and my apologies for that mistake.