John Wright

What else do you need? It’s framework legislation.

You mean the Referendum Act 1979 doesn’t exist?

It doesn’t say it does. It’s a middleman/introducer, allegedly bringing together investors and businesses requiring investment or capital.

And yet it has twice as much bar, restaurant and cafe space than the Ben. And did the occupied deck space include the mezzanine? And when you describe the occupied deck space was that decks 5 and 7? Or just one of them. And during TT the trailers will be on Arrow

On her Lamara Craine Ramsey Commissioner page? quote I had a wonderful conversation with the new owner of the Stanley Hotel pub today. Staffan has confirmed that, if a prospective tenant so wished, they could, in fact, open a pub in the previously owned Heron and Brearley property. There are no restrictions or covenants on the building which mean that the brewery cannot dictate what the building can become in the future. Now this is great news for those that were worried that it couldn’t be turned back into a pub. But the question is, is there a tenant out there that would have what it takes to bring the Stanley back to life?

Yes. They’re keeping them and the M&S franchise.

I reckon 1990

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Just booked my first click & collect from Tesco Lake Road.

Our market is skewed and the extra PAX is for TT. Three bikes to a car space. And a suspended half deck?

Passenger capacity is 50% more than Ben, not 100% more. The problem with the IoM route has always been that it’s highly seasonal. In the old days the SPCo had 9 or 10 boats. They used two boats only for 5 months of the year doing 6 single crossings per week each. They had another two or three that came out for Easter until September. Then the rest were used sparingly, TT, wakes week weekend trips, MGP. For most of the year they were tied up at the Tongue or Inner Harbour, Barrow, Liverpool or Birkenhead-each with a live on board crew. We now, and for the last decade, or more, have had one boat that does 4 single sailings, day in day out, plus a fast craft that operates Easter to October, half that time two single sailings daily and the other half four single sailings daily. But we still get the passenger bulges for three weeks late May/early June and 10 days in late August. At that time there are huge numbers of motorbikes ( and their riders ) and freight goes on the Arrow. That’s when the extra capacity is for.

I think that was the final iteration. My description is before that. Again it’s 50 years ago but was like a mini market hall. Think Salmons had a key and heel bar, someone sold artificial flowers, Robinsons sold fruit and veg. There was no Strand Street shop front. Just the passageway down between Gores and Man Travel

My recollection is that the travel agent was on the corner, then, on Howard Street a hairdresser, then the Robinson’s shop front, then the old Sea Wall bull nose. On Strand Street it was the travel agent, the passageway, then Gore’s. WHS is built on the footprint of Gores, the passage, and Robinsons/Connibears. The Robinson’s shop was, if my recollection is correct single story and corrugated roof?

But with a travel agent on the corner, so it was an L shaped space. Wes the passage off Strand Street the side window of Gores? Where you could watch the rock being rolled and stretched?

Didn’t Joan Connibear marry Johann Horsthuis and didn’t it morph into Robinsons? I remember an arcade, with an entrance on Strand St, maybe down an alleyway, but the main shop front entrance on Howard Street.

There are a number of documents to be filed. That’s why I used returns, rather than return. It’s the companies registry. The only default possible is the failure to file statutory documents. Action by police, regulator, or courts won’t cause a companies registry default. They may result in the filing of other documents.

Just means they haven’t filed their annual returns on time

The parallels are there, the difference is the UK government knew it couldn’t get away with it. Didn’t stop the armed forces and RUC behaving like the IDF towards catholics.

The thing that springs to mind is that compared to 1978/9 when I returned from University and 1982, when I qualified and started to have disposable income to eat out, there are now many more catering establishments, bars, cafes, takeaways, burger joints, medium range and high end restaurants, than we have ever had, with a huge range of quality, cuisine and price. OK, we’ve not got Michelin starred establishments, but we’ve got places ranging from very good to indifferent. The good ones, offering the right product, at the right price to their chosen market, and which are run well, will survive. Those that don’t/aren’t won’t. ‘Twas ever thus. Catering is a risky business. Hard to gauge. What is the dogs bollocks one week caN fast fall out of favour, as fickle custom chases the next new thing. Few establishments last more than a decade. Lots fail much faster. And they fail for all sorts of reasons. Im sure the economic climate is tight, and of course there has been the effect of covid, meaning that lots of places no longer had the cushion they used to. I’m not sure that it justifies the industry call for support. The one area we have many fewer places is traditional small boozers, selling decent cask conditioned beers. The two breweries had nearly 100 pubs. Now down to 35ish.

But at what cost. Transfer it back to Northern Ireland, or Cyprus, or Kenya or Malaysia, or the USA actions in Vietnam and South East Asia. 1. Destroying civilian infrastructure and killing civilians drives the insurgents/terrorists/freedom fighters/liberation or independence fighters underground and acts as a powerful recruiting tool. 2. it’s disproportionate when the civilian populations is so adversely affected, with casualties etc. 3. You’d not have suggested a scorched earth policy against every Catholic ghetto, residential area, school, church, hospital, in Northern Ireland, would you? And if you had, what would have been the effect, and the international reaction?

And you and me - living proof

Aren’t these drills, and preparations for adverse lockdown events, the source of the pupils behaving/identifying as cats at school. One of the recommended things, allegedly, to have is cat litter and a tray for kids who can’t wait for a whole lesson, let alone a few hours, for loo breaks.

You mean like this 🤬

It’s having to pay it when you haven’t budgeted/provided for. I had a VAT bank account and transferred VAT received every week. Meant I always had the funds available. My business, like a restaurant, had few VAT inputs. Many businesses don’t provide and the quarterly bill comes as a surprise. Transferring funds or making proper provision as you go allows you to have a better idea of whether your business is a going concern.