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More Roads Please
At well as High Speed Rail to link London to Edinburgh & Glasgow, and to link it to Wales, we could also do with some more roads. THere are some significant gaps in our road networ. I'd like to propose 2 major schemes ( Read more... ) -
Inheritance Tax
I really don't understand the problem with inheritance tax. The people who pay the money to their descendants are dead, and so have no need of the money; and the descendants effectively want to pay less tax on this money than if they'd actually earned it. Given that the Government has to raise taxes, I don't see why it's better to raise it from ( Read more... ) -
Scripting...
Have restarted work on my Game Of Kings movie script. I'm having a problem, in that I really don't care for much of the opening chapter. I'm cool with Lymond arriving and swimming across the Nor' Loch; I'm cool with the political chit chat. But I dislike "Lymond is back!" and the pig incident (which seems convoluted and pointless to me). Well, ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Jackpot
I'd buy lots of Kinnie for all my friends. And get working on the Dunnett Mediterranean Cruise. Marseilles, Ceuta, Tangier, Bone, Monastir, Djerba, Alexandria, Port Said (for St Catherine's and Mt Sinai), Jerusalem, Istanbul, Rhodes, Cyprus, Dubrovnik, Malta, Sicily, Rome, Marseilles.
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Water water
Well, the water has been back on for a couple of weeks now, and since Monday evening we've actually been allowed to drink it. The bowsers have disappeared from the road (tho whether picked up by the water company or nicked is a moot point ( Read more... ) -
Questionnaire (from fajrdrako via rosiespark)
1. Your Middle Name: Paul ( Read more... ) -
What bugs me about websites
I get really annoyed, living in the United Kingdom, by those websites that put the United States at the top of a pick list of countries, and then all the other countries in alphabetical order. When I see United States, I expect United Kingdom to be just above it as per alphabetical order. But when they arrange the list in this way, it's not, ( Read more... )
