Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

wouldn't it be just great to have the militant unions and their buddies running the country once more?

I bet St Theresa cant believe her luck.

Manuel,

You prefer this.

The recent videos of the tidal bore in China reminded me of the even bigger phenomenon in the Amazon river, the Pororoca.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoqixgRWxes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyNcqrSaPVo

Kick Them While They Are Down, it looks like everyone is after them, and about time those US Bl@dy tax dodgers................


Google faces sizeable back tax bill from Indonesia, report says

(ShareCast News) - Indonesia could slap Google with a $400m tax bill for last year alone, amid an investigation into possible illegal tax avoidance that has been stepped up in the wake of the European Commission's tax battle with Apple.

Indonesia's tax authorities plan to claw back five years of back taxes from the Alphabet Inc company, according to a Reuters report citing a senior tax official.

Taking confidence from Europe's �13bn tax bill for Apple, which has been followed by reports on Friday of a $120bn bill in Japan, Indonesia's tax office has escalated the issue to a criminal investigation after Google Asia Pacific declined to be audited.

Google Indonesia paid less than 0.1% of the total income and value-added taxes it owed last year, according to calculations made by the Indonesian tax office, with most of the revenue generated in the country booked through Google's Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore.

Google said it continues to cooperate with local authorities and has paid all applicable taxes.

Reuters reported that Muhammad Hanif, head of the tax office's special cases branch, said he planned to pursue back-tax claims from other companies that deliver content through the internet in Indonesia.

fred - at least Matt is almost invariably amusing as well as being pointed

as i said yesterday, Matt is invariably amusing ...... love the above ...... well posted fred :-)

Who is patronising?

8-)

That is my role.

Big head .

i patronise my local fishmonger, not you

I don't have a local fishmonger to patronise. Not seen one for years. Nor butcher, baker or candlestick maker.

fishmongers are certainly few and far between, and good ones even more so
one of the problems is that this country has always thought of fish as a cheap alternative to meat and are relatively unwilling to pay for quality

personally i am very happy indeed to pay good money for quality, and fortunately my local fishmonger supplies same - eg really fine and fresh hake steaks last night, and yes you do see the whole fish from which they were cut!


independent butchers are slowly making a comeback - my fishmonger is also a trained butcher as it happens - as are artisan bakers

I suppose we can thank Tesco , Sainsbury's etc for the situation really , they get into areas and knock out the locals . They all seem to be going smaller now .

I'd certainly recommend Brixham Seafood who have a store on eBay:

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/BRIXHAM-SEAFOOD

Call Adam for a chat and discuss with him what you want. If you place an order it will arrive by courier the following day, packed with ice in a sealed polystyrene box. It's best to minimise the delivery charge by increasing the volume of your order.

Most of my orders are for a stock of freshly caught lemon soles. In one of the orders I received an absolutely massive live crab. Fortunately, we did have a big aluminium pot to cook him in! Delicious!

Where is your fishmonger C? I like dover sole, normally buy from M&S but expensive. I bought some lemon soles from Waitrose yesterday. Lunch today.
I also need some decent bones for my german shepherds. Waitrose is on the expensive side for them..:) They love lamb shanks, raw of course.

Marlow

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for lobsters, whitstable oysters (especially) and perhaps crabs i shall have a look at West Whelks in Whitstable
They also deliver overnight

we don't even own a freezer except at the top of the fridge and would only/always buy fresh on the day choosing what looks best at the time

I guess that must be Phil Bowditch. Its about 15 mins from me, via Cookham. Maybe I'll pop along and see.