20
Feb/12

Situation In Greece

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Received this ‘feedback’ from a mate who has just been to Greece which I think gives a really good insight, first had as they say!

They are depressed because officially the suicide rate has gone from the lowest in Europe to the highest. However, shockingly, the businesses still aren’t giving out receipts meaning they aren’t paying taxes at all. Also, the Greek government have made citizens into tax inspectors. If you don’t present a certain number of receipts with your yearly tax report you get in trouble – but with cash in hand tourism businesses this doesn’t make any sense. And the real tax inspectors still haven’t started looking at anyone.

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13
Feb/12

Foreign lorries face £10 daily charge on UK roads

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Reading that foreign lorry drivers could pay as much as £10 a day to use UK roads. Will only apply to lorries over 38 tonnes so our little Van wouldn’t ‘qualify’.

As UK haulage firms already have to pay to make journeys in other European Union countries, including France, it seems reasonable that such a charge be implemented, but of course EU rules means that you can’t discriminate between home and foreign vehicles so all UK lorries would have to pay the daily charge, but the UK Government would reimburse the haulage companies.

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13
Feb/12

Dumping The Euro

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Ever stopped to think why Germany, France and the other Eurozone countries are so keen for Greece to accept the imposed austerity cuts that will enable the release of further bailout funds?

There has been much debate recently, and again over the weekend, that the Eurozone should ‘just let Greece default’, or alternatively ‘Greece should just leave the Euro’.

After all how hard can it be? A bit of printing of new currency, some re-labeling of prices and re-programming of systems. They certainly wouldn’t have to worry about promoting or marketing the forthcoming change would they!

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13
Feb/12

5 Facebook Timeline Tips

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‘Like’ it or not Facebook’s Timeline is here to stay, well at least for as long as they want us to use it, so rather than bemoan the fact here are five (5) tips that many may find useful to consider.

1. Featured Posts

Something that I ‘Like’ is the ability to hover over a post and click on the star to resize a post and as a result give it more prominence on the Timeline.

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27
Jan/12

Doing something you love is the secret to expat happiness

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In this months Telegraph Expat column I take a look at how getting passionate and involved can be the best thing for an expat.

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17
Jan/12

Driving Through Barcelona

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Driving through Barcelona and the north of Spain over the weekend I was reminded just how much I enjoyed working in Barcelona several years ago, not least because of how easy it was to travel around the city and the great Hotel In Barcelona that we stayed at, and returned to last July to celebrate my parents 50th wedding anniversary.

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10
Jan/12

Saidi Anniversary & Birthday

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Saidi is seven today, but more importantly she will have been with us four years today, as she spent the first three years of her life out on the street having at least three litters, ad for the the last 12 months being fed by Sands who slowly fell in love with her and finally succumbed and couldn’t bear the thought of her being out on the street any longer and adopted her to join her son Moreno.

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1
Jan/12

24 Years And Counting

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So another year starts. For me that means another alcohol free month as for the 24th year in a row I have given up booze for the month of January.

Originally it was pretty much a way of shedding the weight put on over the December packed with work functions back in the day when companies didn’t mind the odd boozy lunch, you were allowed a Christmas Tree in the office and meetings didn’t start until 11am during December.

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19
Dec/11

news.me

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Interesting iPad application for news junkies which takes feeds from twitter and bit.ly (the URL shortener i.e. http://chrismarshall.ws/calm-down-dear-its-only-a-plan to http://bit.ly/vlDInf to assess and share popular content.

The links that people post online are ranked using algorithims to create a list of articles that the people you follow have read and shared.

Use of the app costs $0.99 a week or $34.99 a year and there is an initial free week-long trial for the service.

Developed by Betaworks the real time web programmes company, the application uses content from a range of publishers including the Telegraph.

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19
Dec/11

Calm Down Dear It’s Only A Plan

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So we are all going to be evacuated from Spain when the Euro collapses and the Spanish banks wont let us Brits have our savings, and they want our homes back because they froze our bank accounts to stop panic driven mass withdrawals, so we couldn’t make the payments on the mortgage.

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