Are you like me, fed up with the round of notices from Companies House and HMRC and in particular their tone. I have today received a notice as I am required to file an annual return for a date in the future, which I have no problem with. However at the bottom of the page [...]

If I come across another business that tells me that they are confident because they are owned a lot, I will scream. Too many businesses are forgetting that money in the bank is very different to monies invoiced and even worse those not invoiced. I was speaking with a very confident chap this morning explaining [...]

Woman Entrepreneur No Degree Yet, I hadn’t heard it before, it made me smile. Do we have to have an acronym for everything? It does highlight the more serious of question of how important is a degree. Surely if you have established yourself as an Entrepreneur then you have passed the point of needing a [...]

I have just been asked if I know someone who can develop a CRM in a specific programming language and technology. On further investigation, the company actually has no idea what they are after in terms of functionality, however the MDs son warned them not to use an MS Windows solution as in his words [...]

I have today been visiting the CHSI trade show at the NEC. A good number of the companies represented were upbeat, however a number were quite pessimistic. Indeed a number who I had never met before and didn’t realise that I was not a potential customer started their pitch with total gloom and dispondency. Do [...]

We are pleased to announce that we have been selected as the title sponsor for this Annual 10K race inthe picturesque Scottish Borders town of Kelso. The race starts and finishes by the river just outside the grounds of Floors Castle. The bulk of the race takes place around the Castle Grounds by kind permission [...]

Today I attended a Scotland Act Committee meeting (http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/scotBill/index.htm). It was quite revealing, a lot of discussion was about the tax raisong powers. (http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-comm-10/csbc10-s3-002.htm) Currently the Scottish Parliament has the powers under the so called “Tartan Tax” to vary income tax by 3%. However under the Scotland Bill the UK government will release more tax raising [...]

Mobile phone, portable microwave, I do hope this is not genuine http://dai.ly/9PQuoP might give it a go!

Been along Princes Street, does anyone get trams? Are they not the worst of both worlds? Get stuck in traffic and cannot take an alternative?

RT @jailhouserock: @DrewsWeb If the chips are sunk in then they don’t attract VAT, then buy your cookies fresh from a non VAT business!