Vast amounts of skywater mixed in with even vaster amounts
of atmospheric movement at the Castle this morn, his Maj has the hump but at
least the Honda is red again.
and Blogger is being a pain in the arse-again...
and Blogger is being a pain in the arse-again...
Pot-Kettle-Black?
Apparently 5,000 homes may be registered in ways to avoid
property taxes. The Treasury faced demands last night to examine the extent of
tax avoidance by the country's wealthiest homeowners who have transferred £25bn
worth of property into corporate hands.
And about 500 of the homes, worth a total of £1.6bn, were
transferred last year.
On Cornwall Terrace, an up market conversion of eight
imposing period houses overlooking Regent's Park in London, the average asking
price is £35m, making it the world's most expensive row of Georgian mansions.
Every home sold has reportedly gone to an offshore company, meaning the buyers
would have to pay only £52,500 to buy shares in the company, instead of £2.45m
in stamp duty at 7 per cent.
But in his Budget son of a B.....aronet and alien reptile in
disguise “Chancellor”, George (I may have to sack one of my gardeners) Osborne,
promised to come down "like a ton of bricks" on the practice of
switching large properties into corporate control and immediately introduced a
stamp duty levy of 15 per cent for houses bought through a company.
Oh good, that’ll help......
To the place where cricket and tea is king there is a chance
to acquire a vampire slayer’s kit, complete with holy water, crucifixes, wooden
stakes and a pistol with a mould for silver bullets.
The box, expected to fetch £1,200-£2,000, is on display in
Harrogate until the sale is held in Leyburn, North Yorks, on June 22.
Apparently the slaying tools, dating from the late 19th
century, show no sign of having been used.
No shit....
An ostrich takes a dislike to a little girl on a pony, it was going to be a video but blogger decided against it.
Still at least the pony was unhurt....
To the other Manchester, Eric Didio was having a bit of a cavort
in his bright yellow chicken costume, and waving a small American flag to
passersby on Pleasant Valley Road.
When a guy hopped out of a car stopped at the light, ran
over here, grabbed the flag and took off," restaurant general manager
Nathan Atwood said.
Shortly after the theft, reported at about 12:30 p.m.,
Atwood stood next to Didio, providing security for his "chicken
dude." Atwood said a customer who witnessed the theft called police.
Didio and Atwood could only describe the thief as "an
overweight white dude." Didio was working to mark the grand reopening of
the Boston Market, which Atwood said was recently renovated.
What a stupid clucker....
And finally:
A 74-year-old bottle of whisky yesterday has
sold for £46,000 at auction.
The bottle of
Glenfiddich Rare Collection, distilled in 1937, fell short of the current
auction record by just £850. The whisky was unusually slow to mature and ten
consecutive warehouse masters watched over the cask as the amber liquor reached
perfection.
In October 2001,
after 64 years, malt master David Stewart declared Cask 843 ready to be
bottled. One of the 61 bottles was sold yesterday to a bidder for £40,000, plus
the £6,000 buyer’s premium.
The whiskies – which also include a Glenfiddich 1955
(£8,000-£10,000) and a Macallan Select Reserve 1948 (£5,000-£6,000) – are
expected to be some of the top lots at the sale, which also includes cases of
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti’s 1988 Romanée-Conti at £60,000-80,000 apiece.
Cheap at half the price...
That’s it: I’m orf to wash me hands
in a Polish Bison.
And today’s thought:
Euro 2012
Angus
