Tuesday
Oct282008
Down Wembley way
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 
I have just spent the afternoon with my accountant. I have used the same firm since 1984. This is the view from their office in north west London.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
I have just spent the afternoon with my accountant. I have used the same firm since 1984. This is the view from their office in north west London.
Reader Comments (7)
Ah well, it comes to us all (paying tax) I hope the accountant was able to save you some money.
I was watching live parliment yesterday, (Mon) and it was communications that was being discused I was tuning in and out as it did not realy interest me.
When I overheard the word smoking I started listening, it was a commitee questioning a man I did not recognise.
All the talk about secondhand smoke was gone, they were discussing how they were going to stop those who smoked.
I am furious, They explained how they tried to tax us smokers into stopping, then the frightening messages on the packets, now the gruesome pictures.
They have dropped the act and are targeting the taxpaying smoker with everything but public flogging.
Drink is already on their agenda, fatty food in their sights and now they are going to target extremists.
I worry how long it will be until anyone who protests is an extremist.
Where have all the protesters gone?
At least one man stood up at the conferance to protest, but he was promptly threw out.
The EU is the same they will not stop until they have excluded anyone who disagrees.
Sorry if I have went on too long, but this is scary.
I was watching Paul O'Grady on Monday and he and his guest Paul Glenister were bemoaning the fact that there are no proper pubs left - hardly. They said they didn't want to go to gastro family friendly pubs, they wanted old fashioned pubs "where I can roll in the sawdust" said Paul and come out reeking of smoke!
It seemed very strange, that although they had just moved on to another topic, the channel went down!
I was immediately suspicious that this was due, not to any technical problem, but purely because they were airing their own opinions against the smoking ban in pubs!
Whether or not this is the case, it just goes to show how paranoid many of us are now getting!
I suppose we will have to learn the nazi salute and how to say "heil Brown" sooner than we thought!
Am I missing out on something here? Is there a secret code which I have not been told about?
Simon posts an "article" about going to his accountant's in Wembley, and takes a photo from the window, to show us what his accountant sees when he looks out.
Not being privy to any new codes, I would not normally bother to try and answer a post like this, as it doesn't seem to say anything, but then I saw that two other posters had answered.
Thinking that I might find out something to my advantage, on how to crack the code, I decided to look and see what they had said.
The first poster, did mention the accountant, very briefly, but then went on quickly to tell us about a political TV show where smoking was being discussed. Quite interesting, but what on earth has it to do with the view from an accountant's window in Wembley?
The second poster also spoke about a TV show, again where smoking was mentioned, and how the channel suddenly went down.
I never managed to crack the code, if there was one, and I have no idea what the original or the two answers, were supposed to be about.
Any ideas anyone?
I would suggest that its time Simon changed his accountant. Apart from the fact that its quite obvious his fees have gone toward the build of that horrific blot on the landscape office, that looks more like a football stadium, its time he employed an accountant with a dingy office over a shop in a red brick building in a more normal area. If nothing else he can at least imagine that his accountant is just looking after his clients.
I would imagine that one wouldnt be allowed to smoke within a hundred yards of that glass catastrophy and that there's no smoking signs all over the place together with city types in armani suits with briefcases going in and out with bottles of evian water in their hands.
P.S. Guess I got it wrong, it must be the dark evenings affecting my sight!! I realise Simon said its the view FROM his accounts office. So you better stick with who you've got after all but I still go along with what I said about my views on that glass menagerie. There oughta be a law against such structures.
Hi Peter
Sorry if we confused you! I obviously can't speak for Mary, but I don't really know what Simon's posts on football and footie stadiums are about either, but as Mary had replied and mentioned the TV show she had been watching that referred to smoking, and I had been looking for somewhere to make a comment about the show I watched, which went down, very conveniently, I figured this was as good a place as any. It got your attention, at least!
Let's face it, most of us who post on here do so about the smoking ban and its issues.
Is that the stadium for an Austerity Olympics I see before me? Even it's skylon is wonky. Kinda Norman Foster.
Shame we had to lose the rather beautiful and perfectly serviceable old Wembley Stadium for it, but hey, maybe this one's carbon-neutral and merits a higher Eco Rating. Hurrah for big-spending Nu-Labor!
Wot's that? Pardon? You're saying it's nought to do with the Olympics, it's just another footie stadium? And East London [the poor bits at any rate] has to be flattened to make way for another yet bigger an' yet better stadium, in da National Interest? This one with it's own new "village" attachment? And listening-CCTV? When we're in recession, oops sorry BBC, "downturn"?
Surely not!