Recent content by Bongodog

What part of the UK are you in ? are there any local apple growers who could give you the experience you will need to look after trees, pruning in the middle of the winter is not for everyone. As to renting land to plant trees, I can't see anyone wanting to rent you land for 10 years for...

The thing with this one that leaps out at me is that they want it all whilst Mother is still alive, It would be one thing to say after her death that they were promised it all, but whilst mum is still alive and well ?

A typical example, a village family, grandma lives in a 4 bed house on her own, mum lives in a 4 bed house with her partner, dad lives in a 3 bed on his own. 23 year old doesn't want to live with any of the above, so applies for housing association flat, as we have plenty available she gets...

The fundamental thing that isn't grasped in this thread is that the vast majority of chep pallets are received by businesses that need pallets collecting ASAP as they have no space for them and otherwise have to pay to get rid of them. Not like farmers etc who have other uses for them and...

My staff are paid from the minute they arrive to the minute they leave, during that time I take a lunch break and I expect them to as well. Break is taken to suit the days workload, might be anywhere between 11.30 and 2pm. My reasoning for paying whilst on break is that its not at a fixed...

Many years of experience has taught me that people very quickly forget what happened previously. The number of times I've seen builders go bust causing local builders merchants severe financial problems and dragging sub contractors down with them, start up again and the same people are...

I'm sure I had this about 3 months ago

This all has the smell of a pre pack administration, very linited time for a bidder to come forward, also existing directors appear to have a shell company sitting ready

I saw it on film how the police walked past the other protestors in order to arrest the doom goblin, will the Dutch courts be as lenient to her as the UK was ?

The bit that really gets me is the administrators and solicitors provided £32k of advice prior to the administration which wasn't paid until after, surely as that advice was supplied pre admin this expense should get chucked in with all the non secured creditors who get f all

Unfortunately its probably well within the law, company relaises that they can't carry on with the debts hanging over them, approaches an insolvency firm, agrees a "pre pack" deal to buy the assets for a sum that covers the insolvency firms work and off they go. IMO it should be illegal for an...

You say you had a business review, but then go on to say that your accountant isn't forthcoming on advice, the big question is who did the business review, I would expect the accountant to be a big part of it as you have created a limited company. I don't know about other peoples accountants...

We once had wild peacocks in the village, nothing making more noise than a randy peqacock

Goood ones certainly will do the calculations, just received them all for my Mothers estate

Another issue is school dinners, when I was at secondary school the lunchbreak was 1hr 15 minutes, time to serve the entire school a 2 course balanced meal. In their wisdom the school cut the lunch break to 40 minutes in order to bring the end of day forward by 35 minutes. Now the canteen serves...