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  Would you ever buy tickets for the cinema and then choose to only see half the film?  Well I suppose you might if it’s a very scary film and you’re hiding behind your seat half the time, but on the whole, people want to see it all.  Beginning, middle and end. You might be […]

I’m very much a glass half full kind of person. Actually, I’m a “it’s irrelevant how full or empty the glass is, because it’s always refillable”.  Which I think proves my point even more namely that I am, essentially, a very positive person, and if you saw how badly my football team were doing at […]

    You know how I’m always going on about the benefits of a well worded contract, even if you are worried about the cost?  Well, here’s a good example of why it can save you money in the long run. A support worker, providing help to the disabled, travels from appointment to appointment throughout […]

  If you asked me what I’d had for lunch, I’d tell you that I’d had a coffee and three bars of chocolate, and you’d (understandably) be worried.  Or perhaps surprised that it contained no reference to alcohol or maybe you assumed that the chocolate bars were in a martini! If you asked me to […]

  It’s a fairly standard conversation to be having with clients at the moment.  They will ring me up and say that they have taken tax advice and they want to put things into trust to protect it from IHT. You’d assume that my answer would be, that’s a great idea, my fees will be […]

I was told today that I reminded someone of a film and tv star.   It turns out they meant Donald Duck, because a bad bout of laryngitis has left me with a very rough sounding voice. I like to think I have a sense of humour and the comment certainly made me smile, even if […]

In my experience, the majority of matters that go to an employment Tribunal come down to two things, either the employer has failed to go through a proper process (usually innocently but that’s no excuse) or the employee (or in this case potential employee) assumes that the employer has taken against him or her for […]

    Have you noticed that as lockdown is eased and people are starting to go out more, restaurants are obviously concerned about our short term memories and abilities to make firm commitments, Not only do many of them insist on taking credit card details with an agreed sum to be charged to your account […]

  I’ve been learning recently how many different types of personality there are.  I always knew that people were different, but the different ways in which they can be categorised is mind boggling and continues to grow. For example, there is a category of people who like musicals and they are often called melophiles.  I’ve […]

  Heated arguments over a child’s paternity used to be a regular feature of morning TV curtesy of Jeremy Kyle with parents scrapping and swearing over whether they are the biological father of the child they have brought up since birth. When a father finds out on live TV that he is not the biological […]