The run up to yesterday’s budget was chaotic. Widespread scaremongering about tax rises and VAT registration threshold drops caused a lot of uncertainty, but the 2025 Autumn Budget could have been a lot worse for self-employed people. Income tax, National Insurance and VAT The freeze in income tax and National Insurance (NI) thresholds has been…
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Tales of the Tramuntana Mallorca – March 2025 Sometimes, when you’re in the middle of something long or challenging, it can be easy to lose sight of how far you’ve come. I was fortunate enough to visit Mallorca earlier this year. The Serra de Tramuntana (Tramuntana mountains) and the GR221 long distance hiking trail that…
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Why the Orwell Bridge? It was just by chance that I stumbled across Lee Rudland’s magnificent photograph of The Orwell Bridge at twilight. Scrolling through pages of images brought up by a Google search for “dawn of a new era” – which Google seems to think includes sunset as well as sunrise – I was…
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