Travellers don't always leave a mess
Flash Gordon wrote: But that aside, what would bother me the most would be the potential littering and mess - there have been enough reports and pictures (not just in the national press but in less biased local press) of land after travellers have moved on leaving behind all kinds of mess. I get really wound up by people disrespecting the environment and other peoples' property.
But that aside, what would bother me the most would be the potential littering and mess - there have been enough reports and pictures (not just in the national press but in less biased local press) of land after travellers have moved on leaving behind all kinds of mess. I get really wound up by people disrespecting the environment and other peoples' property.
We often get travellers passing through our town on the way to a big annual horse fair. They'll usually stay on the green for a few nights and the only mess they ever leave behind is horse manure :)
We've had far worse problems with noisy house-dwelling neighbours - which I think is a form of not respecting other people and not thinking of others before yourself.
That link is for incidentals
"Subsistence costs such as meals" are covered by the rules on travel http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/payerti/exb/a-z/t/travel.htm and my understanding is they're not part of the "incidentals" rules, which are for expenses like newspapers and phone calls home?
Flash
It is quite simple really.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
If you have lots of ideas for stories, which I am sure would be brilliant and which I would read with great interest, may I suggest you start a blog of your own and share them there.
Yours sincerely
FW
The ExCEL is not easy to get to
I would disagree that the ExCEL is easy to get to unfortunately. Coming into London from King's Cross, it's three different trains just to get across London to the ExCEL. And going back after the event, it was five because of a lineside fire on the DLR.
I agree with MJ Green Accountancy. Why not try having the event at the NEC in Birmingham? Central for everyone and surely cheaper?
In terms of did I see anything that looked handy for timesaving, there were certainly some tools that I could almost wish I was back in practice just to try, particularly the options to share documents online with clients for signing. See my next post...
WiFi
If First Class has WiFi then Standard Class usually has WiFi too. You just have to pay for it in Standard Class.
If the cost of Standard Class + WiFi + drinks + meal > the cost of First Class, then it is more cost-effective for BD to go First Class.
I think I will also give him a "dispensation" to travel First Class if Standard Class is packed to the rafters, so that as @mrme89 rightly says, he can get some work done on the train instead of it being idle time...
