Apr
20
2009
Too knackered after property development weekend to care really so not much sorting of crap and throwing out. Did some, but mainly spent all day faffing around! Tomorrow I’ll be more energetic What is it with the health and safety people? Don’t they know that if you don’t take some risks nothing ever gets done? [...]
Tags: general rant
Apr
15
2009
Who’d be a salesman? I’ve put loads of stuff on Ebay and some of the most unlikely stuff sells while stuff I though would leap off the page doesn’t even get a sniff! For example, I put on 4 expired tax discs, two sold and two didn’t, and I still can’t figure out why Some [...]
Tags: learning to sell
Dec
22
2008
The recent ‘invasion’ of Stansted airport didn’t change the World nor did 9/11. Oh sure, security got better. Now I can’t get on a ‘plane without surrendering my nail file and submitting to a strip-search in case I have some C4 secreted in my rectum! But the World didn’t change for the better and it [...]
Tags: c4 in my rectum, change the world, consumerism, opt out of consumerism, shut your wallet
Nov
24
2007
Mas Nou is on the Costa Brava, you know, where that painter chap lived (Salvador Dali). Well, we have just got back from a two week break there. Here’s a couple of views of the accommodation, more views can be found in the gallery of the Travel link on the home page. This is a [...]
Tags: costa brava, girona, holiday, mas nou, masnou, salvador dali, st feliu de guixols
Feb
19
2007
Some time ago we invested in a Swiss holiday company which has property all over the World. It enables us to gain access to apartments in some superb locations provided we are prepared to do some of the organisation ourselves such as arrange flights. The accommodation is excellent as you can see… This shows the [...]
Feb
19
2007
You can see more pictures of Flims here
Feb
05
2007
I’m off to Vermont – I’ll send a postcard