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All about the fuel

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I imagine this is old news and I am in fact way behind the curve as usual, but it’s amazing what you can discover when browsing Homebrew sites*. On the day that wind power being a bit crap starts making waves** I discovered that since 2007 it’s been legal to run your own still to produce up to 2,500 litres of spirits for use in BioFuels. Now as someone that’s quite keen on having a moderate amount of independence and avoiding paying tax on anything I don’t have to pay tax on this seemed a bit too good to be … Continue reading →

Taxes…how much?!

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What with various incidents in the news and my upcoming annual bonus (strictly performance related) I’ve been thinking about tax of late. This is normally something I avoid thinking about as the numbers normally annoy me no end, and from the few years where I had to do self assessments the paper work is even worse. With the Occupy crowd being forced to realise the difference between a right to protest and trespass, it was beholden on our glorious government to carry on with the Bank bashing. It seems that if your a bank keeping the law isn’t enough if … Continue reading →

Back on the booze

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Well to be fair I’ve not been off the booze, but I am I’m afraid going to go on about the increasing anti-drink agenda. I begin to sympathise with stuck records the world over. They are as Leg Iron has often observed using exactly the same tactics as they did with smoking. Camra and the pub trade are once more, as again LegIron observed, putting up no resistance but just hoping they’ll somehow be spared. The puritans are so blatant and unimaginative in their tactics that even the mainstream media is starting to pick up on it. But then again … Continue reading →