Have been made an executor for a friend who died a year ago. The fact of the US and UK having some difficulties communicating aside the UK tax office makes things harder. Firstly they start charging penalty interest after 6 months and when you are beholden to other institutions (in my case Court of Protection…
Month: May 2025
Doing Deals
The art of doing financial deals all depends upon whom you are dealing with, what they want and what you want. Non one seems why of having the ability to force someone to negotiate and the idea that both sides do what is ethical seems to take third place to the contract to be signed….
What drives
a man to rape a woman? People suggest it may be hormones they cannot control. I chatted to a woman many years ago who was raped in her own home and afterwards the man had smashed out her teeth saying ‘ now no other man will look at you’. There is definitely much that is…
Cynara
Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine; And I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head: I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion….
It Is Ironic
That America made in the modern era through immigration from the entire world, should have voted in a fascist on the platform of stopping certain immigration. I am not even sure what the rest of the population has against Mexicans as Spanish became the second language of America decades ago. It would be too easy…
The Role of Survival
Professor Perry showed that we are socialised in the first three years if our lives and much of our character and almost all of our personality flows from those early experiences when we can barely talk. When babies are crawling over each other and sharing toys they are also learning about being with another person….
Stop Serving the System
Everyone in the world trading in money i serving a system with rules devised by our ancestors and new rules devised by those who profit the most from the economic system. If we are to be taxed there should be so tax havens. If we are to pay inheritance tax everyone should pay it. If…
Drinking
I never liked the taste of alcohols and loathed the smell of beer. I also never trusted as a teenager friends getting so drunk they vomited or lost motor-functions. As I grew older I was always the one who held a glass of wine in his hand all evening and once or twice a year…
One’s Rooms
Furnishings are supposed to tell you all about your personality. You are even supposed to be able to tell a person’s character by their choice of decoration and furnishings. I’m not so sure. I am more sure that how one chooses to furnish where one chooses to live has everything to do with how much…