Category: Business Opportunities

One of the troubles being a business man is that you are always trying to save the pennies.

I am near to completion on my swimming pool, in the garden of my house.
However, there was a rather large tree that blocked out a lot of the sunshine.
I therefore decided that this tree had to go, so the tree surgeon arrives, tuts a bit, shakes his head, breathes in and tells’ me that it is going to cost me £1000 to get the tree down. £1000, forget it I’ll do it myself…..my first job when I left school was taking trees down, how hard can it be?!

So I committed myself to taking this tree down, the gauntlet had been laid down, the challenge had been set and I accepted, pay somebody a grand when I can do it myself cheaper, never!

The first weekend was spent surveying the tree. I then went out and bought a chainsaw, at £340.
My ladder, even though extended to its full potential would not reach the top (bear in mind this is a 200ft high tree), so I bought £250 worth of climbing gear, (keeping up with the cost here?)
The second weekend, I got myself all strapped up, harness, quick release etc, and I still needed another rope at £150, and up I went.
The tree has now left my garden at the total cost of £740 worth of equipment, two weekends of not only my time but two of my guys, and the cost of putting my own life at risk!
For those watching, and you know who you are, this may have been an amusing event, me hanging like a monkey from the tree, and to be honest, not feeling that confident, bits of tree going everywhere, including a very near miss of my neighbors pride greenhouse!
All in all I think that it may have cost me slightly more than the £1000 that the tree surgeon quoted me!
Saying all this though, I would do it again. Something like this sets me aside from other people, people like me who accept challenges set before them. It puts you a step ahead of everybody else, and makes you stand out from the crowd.

The end of the month arrived and things look good.

Our trading has gone great guns especially for the start of the year!
We nearly lost our salesman after he received his pay cheque; fortunately we were able to solve this situation amicably. This is something that I have never done before, I am glad that we were able to sort this out, and he didn’t leave, everyone’s happy for now!

Next few months we will be buying buying buying….offers should be coming in with the end of the January Sales. I have decided that it may be beneficial to get into the retail trade that is where the big bucks are!

I had pretty much decided that the vending side of the business was on its arse, until a telephone call this week. This call alerted me to the fact that a sole importer for a particular vending product is going out of business, this may be my opportunity to make some money, after all the vending business has made me a few millions in the past.

The incident with Jade Goody has shown to everybody how easily the media that have made you the celebrity can take it away just as easily and far more quickly!
“As quick as they can make you they can break you”

It’s my personal opinion that Jade Goody has been made a scape goat.
Anybody that is scrutinized for 24hrs every day of the week with hidden cameras and microphones will make comments that offend.
And in this case these have been deemed as Racial Comments, what is the definition of a racist comment? When you see an Indian you may say poppodom, or do you live in a shack, to me that’s no more offensive that saying to fat people to get off their fat arse to get something and go to the gym or saying to a northerner to learn how to speak properly.

The government have jumped on the band wagon in this instance saying how anti-racist they are and how they won’t tolerate it.
In my opinion the government employs a large percentage of people that I would deem racist. Get them in a big brother style environment, hidden cameras and microphones with people from all round the world, Blacks, Asian, Eastern Europeans and see how many racist comments are made. I think that the whole thing is completely out of order.

I have been a victim of what I believe to be racism my whole life.
To me the definition of Racism is being victimised by the authorities, the government, the police and the tax man, to name but a few.
Why am I under investigation from the tax man, because I am black and I live in a nice house, I have nice things? As soon as I bought my Bentley I was under investigation with the Bournemouth Tax Authorities, “why has that black man got a Bentley and I haven’t”
When I applied for planning permission to build an annex onto my house for an indoor swimming pool, twenty one people opposed the application and one opposition being from a household over 8 miles away, that is just unbelievable and to me proof that I am being victimised because of the colour of my skin, people don’t want me to succeed with my life, they can’t have that, they need to feel superior to the black man!

Being a black man, I know that there is a certain amount of mickey taken throughout the community, for an example I saw a guy the other day and said “hey microphone head” the guy had an afro, there was no racist comment, just an observation!

Totally instigated from racism they have scrutinized me for the last year, finding out how they can take more money from me, I was told this was a random investigation, this happened before 7 years, ago, tax man told me then that this should only happen once in a lifetime, and what a surprise being investigated again, all instigated as they see a black man driving a Bentley, they are trying to take the privilege away from me, or make things so difficult that I sell it and get rid of it, its eats them up inside to see a black man driving nice cars, owning nice things, living in nice houses. I have paid fortunes in the last few years on tax, and to slow me down in my business and personal life I get investigated, so I can’t have such nice things, to make these racist people feel superior.

Two guys are coming down tomorrow, to steal some more money, because of the colour of my skin, and whats amazing about this, if I don’t allow them to take more money they have threatened me with further investigations, I have never been late with payments, have always paid national insurance and tax, in the past four years I have paid over £300,000 in income tax and national insurance, and they still want more, is this right? And they will always try to slow me down with investigation after investigation; however, they will not stop me as I am a winner.

I will keep you posted as to the outcome of the meeting and hopefully the end of the investigation!