6 September 2010
6 September 2010 I got to the bottom of the swingeing reduction in my pension payments, by ringing the Inland Revenue. Apparently, it’s all to do with a tax change resulting from my SIPP (Self Invested Personal Pension) kicking in last August. Just to cheer me up the tax inspector told me that an assessment […]
5 September 2010
5 September 2010 We went out to lunch today to a modest local café. We sat outside, braced against the autumnal chill, so that I could smoke a small cigar. When it came to ordering lunch it had a Fawlty Towers ring about it as, from a very limited menu our first two choices ‘were […]
4 September 2010
Today, I finished the draft of the speech which I started yesterday, for the 20th Anniversary Dinner on the Arbitration Club, on 23rd September. This was a rather poignant undertaking as this dinner will be my swan song, almost certainly from formal occasions, of The Arbitration Club, of which, for the next two years or […]
1 September 2010
I managed OK after my fall yesterday, so no real harm done. However I’m rethinking the two visits that I was going to make to the Arbitration Club, in London in London next week. Keith Kirkwood was originally intending to accompany and assist me but now, unexpectedly, has to go to New Zealand on business […]