T-Bird Anni Rides Again

This is  no longer protected - you can’t be accused of libel if you just state facts.

There has been a strong suggestion that the private ambi company that Duke works for is not kosher.  I don’t know all the "ins and outs" but there are suggestions that there is no insurance whatsoever on the trucks, no public liability insurance and no medical indemnity. 

(eta - and one of the vehicles at least, if not more, has been driving round still registred to the previous owner and without an MOT )

There is also a suggestion taht although he has been doling out "wage slips" with tax and NI contributions recorded taht actually there has been no tax or NI paid - lets face it, it’s not hard to buy the software to produce pay slips now is it.  Duke is owed about 9 weeks worth of wages (but at least the last cheque seems to be staying put - fingers crossed)

(eta - if I were to say BOI-ING!!  would that give you any ideas about what that last cheque just did?)

 So it looks like we are back to managing on whatever the Red Cross deigns to remember to pay me and his £11k salary, those nice people at the tax credit office had better not f**k up the calculations on this one…… otherwise i’m stacking shelves at Asda every night from now on or we move to one of those nice "park homes" down at the trailer park.

(eta - if we sell ours for £150,000 which seems reasonable compared to waht stuff has gone for round here recently we can clear the mortgage and get something like this with the change or this with the proceeds from those endowments, be closer to where Duke works, be walking distance from Morrisons but be on one of the roughest estates in the area with no garage to store campign stuff in etc.  I’m beginning to think that between this and the ***** endowments that moving is going to be what it has to be.  ) 

Aprilia has just seen news about this on Rewsround and wants to take part so, erm, I registered us as a school!  I think we can probably manage to stagger round a 2km (just over 1 mile) route although we may have to massage the rules a little as it’s supposed to be run within school grounds and I think we would get dizzy running round the garden for that long!  Ah well, I suppose we can use the "the whole world is our school" theory and jog to the park the long way round!

Duke was a presiding officer at a polling station yesterday.  There were 2 seperate "wards" in the same building (so two lots of voters)  Duke’s ward got 17% turn out, the other ward polling at the same station got 14% turn out.  WHAT GIVES???  Would these people prefer we lived in a dictatorship????