Minister for the treasurer David Gauke has recently said that paying builders in cash for a discount is morally repugnant and that it is illegal tax avoidance? What I find surprising is that this has come out in the news as if it is some sort of dramatic recent discovery; I am no mathematical genius, but within a couple of years of leaving a pretty basic education, I kind of got the feeling that cash deals to avoid paying tax was more than ...
The sunny weather arrived this weekend, just in time for the first Sunday of the season when Oakley didn't have cricket a cricket fixture, meaning my quest to beat my season high score of eleven not out goes on for another week and my chances of a maiden fifty have now become about as remote as an Elvis Presley comeback. It also appears that the much anticipated Azores high that has eventually brought warmer sunnier weather to our shores is only ...
In an attempt to make myself a million quid, I am shortly going to be releasing a series of crap modern day erotic novels................. a 21st Century Mills & Boon if you like.
Here is an extract from my first book, Fifty Shades of Emulsion
Roy had worked for Permolux Coatings since 1984, starting at the bottom of the ladder as a junior warehouse assistant before rising through the ranks in to his current position as senior wareho...
There has been a lot of stuff in the news this week about banks potentially losing business because of the nation's anger towards them after they have been exposed in one scandal after another. It is as if though they are all in a race to see who the most dastardly cretin amongst them is, with Barclays currently out in front after the Libor scandal. A common thing you hear is that you are more likely to get divorced than change your bank and ...
I was lucky enough to get taken to lunch in Basingstoke today with a friend/business associate who is doing some web work for one of my clients, a treat that is quite rare when you work independently. We both had quite a busy afternoon so it was a quick lunch, we went to Zizzi, an Italian restaurant at what is known by locals as "the top of town" area of Basingstoke that is reasonably pleasant in comparison to Festival Place and its obligatory ...