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[Nemesis]

Gosh - I have a feeling we may have said a few unkind things about Tesco on here also...

Hmmmmm.

 

[Jon Maine]

You could be in trubs then!! I guess at some point Goliaths achilles heel will show and they will shrivel away to a dark place to be replaced by ?????, one hopes.

 

[Flyfisher]

Nice article in this morning's Grauniad about how and why Tesco is trying to sue said paper over allegations that Tescos's complex off-shore ownership structure deprives us, the taxpayers, of £100 million, alledgedly. Apparently a Cayman Island base is the key to running a supermarket.

It always makes me smile when people consider the taxpayer has been 'deprived' when somebody quite legally minimises their tax bill. If you're so worried about 'us' being deprived why not volunteer to pay more tax than you need to? No, thought not - so why expect anyone else to pay more than they legally need to?

Public companies have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders and that includes minimising taxes - by legal means of course. Now, you might consider the law to be wrong, and that's fine, in which case lobby to get it changed.

Mind you, even the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise get involved in offshore tax avoidance deals, so presumably the government thinks it's all OK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/jun/14/immigrationpolicy

 

[Nemesis]

If you're so worried about 'us' being deprived why not volunteer to pay more tax than you need to? No, thought not - so why expect anyone else to pay more than they legally need to?

I think Biff reported what was said in the Groan. I don't recall his own views expressed?

 

[Flyfisher]

Don't be daft. Anyway, I'm sure Biff can answer for himself.

 

[biffvernon]

Nemesis is not daft and in this instance precisely right. I am, of course, a Tesco shareholder and carry the Clubcard about my person at all times. I am planning a move to the Cayman Islands from where to pursue my joinery business unhindered by the petty inconvenience of having to pay taxes.

Jon, has the heat pump worked out ok?

 

[Jon Maine]

Heat pumps working well, although only got upper floors connected in the last couple of weeks. Am very smug/pleased about the decision now re oil and gas.

We are laying the original floorboards we salvaged, some were worn far to thin so we have laminated 6mm ply to the back. Does that mean we have the oldest laminate flooring in the country?

 

[Nemesis]

Well - not the oldest laminate but I don't as yet know about flooring.

I do recall some frantic posting here when the diviner couldn't find water and the borehole drilling not going too well - but thankfully it's all working out.

Those pics don't do it justice you know. It looks from the church tower to be in a sea of tarmac. In fact it's in a magical little space of its own.

Stunning work Jon. I will be passing the latest pics round to all and sundry (well, those who have followed progress with great interest) tomorrow.

 

[Jon Maine]

Ta, Ev.

I know what you are saying, it did look like a sea of tarmac from the church tower I was suprised, strangely only when i looked at the picture afterwards.

Yes frantic geological questions about the boreholes, remember that too. All resolved now with our own town centre water well .

Did you get around to your roof yet?

 

[Nemesis]

No - I seem to spend far more time trying to save buildings in other places and not our own!

It's on the list... along with so much else. Like the cement.

 

[Flyfisher]

Nemesis is not daft and in this instance precisely right. I am, of course, a Tesco shareholder and carry the Clubcard about my person at all times. I am planning a move to the Cayman Islands from where to pursue my joinery business unhindered by the petty inconvenience of having to pay taxes.

Glad we cleared that up then
Give my regards to Seven Mile Beach when you're over there.

 

[Nemesis]

No, I'm certainly not daft. I was however correct.

 

[Flyfisher]

Absolutely. Biff's reply made that quite clear :lol:

 

[Penners]

It's on the list... along with so much else. Like the cement.

Aha - gotcha! Where are you going to introduce the cement? A nice exterior render, perhaps?

 

[Nemesis]

Oh do keep up Penrose.

Removal of - as in the pics I posted last week.

http://periodproperty.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9287

 

[Penners]

Removal of - as in the pics I posted last week.

Oh my word! I forgot what you posted last week?? :shock:

I shall chastise myself with barbed wire forthwith.

 

[Nemesis]

I can't see how anyone could forget the horror pics of our cementy pointing.

Stuff of nightmares.

As to the barbed wire - you know you enjoy it. Any excuse.

 

[Penners]

I can't see how anyone could forget the horror pics of our cementy pointing.

Huh - you haven't seen our place. A symphony in OPC and gypsum. Mea non culpa.

 

[Nemesis]

Well - here it all is again... although there is worse to come, but at the moment I haven't taken any pics.

http://periodproperty.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9287

The sad thing is, the original stuff left is fine.

 

[thiambal]

Railings, my design, corner posts milled by local engineer, points and stays all smithed on site by Graham Smithhttp://www.snailstoves.moonfruit.com/#. The top and bottom rails were laser cut by a company from Burton on Trent called Harvey Cooke who were very profesional. All the smaller uprights were salvaged from secondhand wrought iron railings from Kent via ebay. Lot of effort but a great result just how we wanted them.

In my regular periodical , The Private Eye, it seems Mr Tesco is also suing a reporter in the far east for £1.6m for saying that Tescos expansion was aggressive. Apparently the reporter would have been paid about £16 for the article!!

Ah, I see. Well done, they look great. And there was me think I could just order something similar. Anyone know where you can get nice railing that do not cripple your finances. Something plain with pointed tops I was thinking - no bloody fleur-de-lys