Wonderful.

Go and try it yourself and if you’re not sure then ask on the first visit.

BTW it may be worth booking, as it gets very busy.

Afterwards we enjoyed a superb performance by he Rambert Dance Company at the Theatre Royal. Brilliant day.

This looks very good to me, Cliff Jenkins. Check it out for yourself.

Home Marinated Olives 2.95
Home marinated cockles 2.95
Homemade soup (without bread) 4.25
Crispy chilli chicken wings in a sweet chilli sauce and lime mayo 5.50
Roasted fig with Gorgonzola cheese and crispy Parma ham,
Rocket salad and honey vinaigrette 5.50
Crab and avocado tian with smoked salmon, mixed leaves
and coriander and chilli oil 6.25

For sharing (for 2 persons)

Nachoes with grilled cheese (salsa ?gf)), sour cream and guacamole 7.50
Peel your own prawns with marie rose sauce (without bread) 3.50

Side orders

Jacket Potatoes with fillings of your choice £8.30
Parsley new potatoes 2.25
Vegetables of the day 2.50

Main Course

Slow cooked belly of pork with madeira jus, dauphinoise potato,
roasted parsnips, creamed cabbage and bacon 11.25

Chicken supreme filled with mozzarella, sunblushed tomatoes and
Rosemary, with rosti potatoes and char grilled vegetables 10.95

Roasted lambs liver and bacon with safe infused mash and
Caramelised onion jus (without crispy onion rings) 11.95

Duck leg confit with sweet potato fondant, plum sauce and kale 10.50

Steaks served with Jacket or new potatoes with salad and
half-grilled plum tomato and flat mushroom :
10oz Rib-eye Steak 14.00
10IOz Sirloin Steak 15.50

Homemade Burgers served with Mayo and Homemade Tomato Relish with jacket potatoes and salad:
Homemade chicken, beef, or spicy bean burgers (omit the bun) 8.30
Extras – bacon, cheese, coleslaw, fresh chilli, mushroom, pineapple or blue cheese 0.75

Vegetarian

Roasted Butternut squash and safe risotto with mixed salad 8.75
Mushroom, leek and ale potato bake with buttered vegetables 8.75
Gnocchi with blue cheese, greek yoghurt and pine nut sauce,
Served with rocket and tomato salad (not GF) 8.75
Vegi fish ‘n’ chips with minted garden peas (not GF) 8.75

A new vision for the young people in Albufeira

“They” have spent a fortune with no immediate returns… worse still, “They” don’t know how to solve the problem “They” created.

Albufeira is aFeb 2012 Some thoughts on Albufeira, Portugal. Looking with new eyes. beautiful town; Due South so no jet lag, and a short flight with short airport transfer; Blue sky; Sandy Beach; Oranges; Clean, fresh and sparkling Atlantic Air; Friendly People; Mediterranean Diet; Wintertime Sun and warmth; good wine and port;

Lots of ‘Me Too’ very little uniqueness,

The Next Generation need to create a vision of what they want.
They’ve got a huge debt problem – so secede from Portugal and the EU and immediately default. They’ve got a vast number of empty properties which need to be filled for the bulk of the year, every year.

The Marina in Albufeira is so bad it’s difficult to know where to start – let’s fill the Albufeira marina with yachts less than 34 ft LOA – moorings free if yachts are made available or local skippers for skippered day charters; let’s paint the blocks white – lets plant orange trees everywhere – let’s move the monthly market down here – also a mobile crane to lift small boats (<32ft LOA) in and out of the water – plus a ramp for smaller boats to haul out of scrub and anti-foul and general access – give easy pedestrian access to the western harbour arm – ‘the wall’ has to go – let’s develop apartments with moorings.

Generally de-clutter Albufeira eg wring, cables, street signs, road markings (ban cars and lorries except between …0); plant orange trees everywhere you have an empty space; immediately repair any pavements; reduce the size of the fountains; fix the one desolate sea-front building asap; reduce the bus fares so that people don’t need cars; remove the plastic menu cards and employ staff who can speak foreign languages ( you’re in a global fight for foreign visitors) make the place photograph friendly; three strawberry festivals; fresh dates;

All elected officials and the top three/four layers of Civic servants to resign and retire on one third pensions as their decisions have meant we can’t afford to employ them or pay their pensions – in their place an emergency team creates itself . the APC Albufeira People’s Co-operative gets moving.

If construction developments in Albufeura do not markedly move forward within six months, then APC take-over and using volunteers get them smart and usable, or at least tidier.

Give the problem to your youngsters, they have to clear up this mess and create a good life for their families. One hint, Start with the least cost/ fastest profit items first.

Drivers, waitors and waitresses, skippers and crew, managers, retail people of all types, boatyard staff, entrepreneurs, accountants, lawyers, doctors, nurses, teachers, gardeners, hair stylists, manicurists, agriculturalists, agronomists, water supply engineers, chefs, cleaners, laundry staff,

Hold a Top Chef; Top Restaurant; Top Hotel awards; Top Photograph competition.

Updated 17th January. You can’t keep us away from Tosca’s, lunch there on Saturday, as usual it was excellent.

9th January 2011. Tosca’s is hugely popular with the whole of our family, save one. So yesterday we revisited The Bridge and it was veryy well received as there’s one person who likes a good draft bitter.

We really can’t stand the sound of this argument going on for years. We’ve had enough already and we want to concentrate on getting out the hole the Scottish Politicians and the Scottish Banks created.

They get their independence, now or within twelve months
We keep everything else. They came in bankrupt and leave the same way
Scottish MPs leave the UK Parliament forthwith
Because of the UK Tax-payers guarantees we keep Natwest, RBS and HBOS
We keep the Scottish named regiments, treated as the Gurkhas
We withdraw our air force, seamen and the submarine base and close our air bases. They can have and pay for their share of the Monarchy and the Royal Family.
No Scot in any UK (now English) Quangos as they all have to resign unless they apply for irrevocable English citizenship
No access to the Pound Sterling.
No Sottish Lords in the House of Lords
No international treaties.
No subsidies for trains, buses or planes crossing into Scotland. They will stop at the nearest station in England south of Hadrian’s Wall
No subsidies for arts, research, sport, etc
No special treatment, the Immigration rules as for EU citizens
No dual citizenship. Any Scot living in England has to opt in or opt out
No subsidies for postal services or telecoms
No right to use the Union Jack in any circumstance
No Credit, all services we need to provide for Scotland need to be paid for in advance because of the risk of default.

My personal exasperation with Scotland and the Scots has built up over many years. I can only give glimpses at the underlying causes, for example:

my best friend at school had a Scottish father, the family lived in England until the only school good enough for my friend was Edinburgh Academy, nothing in England was apparently good enough

one of my careers was as a Salesman but it was a hopeless task in Scotland for a Sassenach, as they refused to explore the opportunities of the specialist software from England which I was offering

the incredible arrogance that Scottish Chartered Accountants were better than English, now demonstrably rubbish as shown by their utter failure to build up any viable businesses in Scotland. (I wonder whether they need a lower valued currency than the Pound Sterling in order to survive.)

At RBS the Director of Security was forced out for demanding that the Sub-prime mortgages were indeed just that, so ‘Fred the Shred’ appointed his Director of Marketing into that role. Indeed the poacher turned game-keeper, the rest of the story is well-known,

The crazy economic policies of the Scottish son of a Scottish Presbyterian Minister, who seemingly had delusions of ‘Godness’

The gift of £6Bn to the EU on the very afternoon the labour government threw in the towel, another Scot…. and the final comment “there’s no money left!”

Finally the voice and style of Salmond…. “get thee gone.”

Now of course we come to the present day

Fred the Shred to lose his knighthood and his £13m pay-off and any earlier bonuses and pension pot (and that his self-satisfied Chairman gets the sack)

RBS owned by the English tax payer relocates to England

HBOS guaranteed by the UK Tac-payer therefore relocates to England

Barnett formula to be scrapped and payments limited to the average spend in England, immediately and to stop within twelve months

Scots studying at English universities have to pay at overseas fee levels,

Relocate the submarine base to Liverpool, Falmouth, Devonport or Portsmouth, costs charged to Scotland as they are the ones seeking separation, (debt to be fixed in Sterling to protect against devaluation)

Repay the cost of the Scottish Assembly building in full (debt fixed in Sterling)

All the so-called Scottish regiments to relocate south of he border with all their equipment. Recruitment to be largely from Scots , like the Gurkhas,

In the short term halve the number of Scottish MPs to bring them into line with English representation ratio

end the subsidy of Royal Mail deliveries and collections; separate Scottish Rail and charge Scotland for all the track, rolling stock and other assets; end all other hidden subsidies for example BT;

Replace all the Scottish voices on adverts etc. with English voices, eg Devonian, Welsh, Chinese, Afro, European, Indian, to better represent the modern English

Install Border Control along Hadrian’s Wall

In summary the English positively want to be rid of these interfering and incompetent twits. We’re fed up of hearing the their moans, suffering their arrogance and of their greed

TACTIC ONE: Prominently flag UK goods and services to increase local sales and thus increase local profits

Obviously the traditional suppliers of funds are not satisfying this role and won’t be able to for many ears as they repair the damage of their losses,. Therefore we need a new look. The only place new money can come from is us, the people. It has to come from the people, so lets create a local-business society, a quantum step up from a nation of shop-keepers.
This is an ideal role for David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ as we need everyone to be involved.
There are only four routes to fund growth:
increase profit
borrow the money
issue shares to raise more capital OR
reduce the levels of stock and debtors, thus using less money
To increase your profit you can increase your prices, reduce your costs, reduce tax rates or sell more.
Let’s take the last one, we can all help achieve this. If every business can be allowed to add the Union Jack (UJ) as a logo to show their inputs of imported goods and services are less than 20% of all inputs for that business. It will be clear to customers at all levels that the product or service with the ‘UJ’ Logo is the one for them to choose.
UK businesses make more sales and make more profits to fund more growth.
The amount of imported goods and services will also decrease as we buy more locally. In addition the government instead of syphoning off some of this profit could give a tax holiday on the increased profits for (say) three years.
Importers would be quick to re-arrange their imports so that the value fal;ls below the 20% level by doing local processing instead of buying it in ready-made.

To : business.finance@bis.gsi.gov.uk
Funding Growth –
Strategy: create a “local-business society,” a quantum leap for a nation of shop-keepers.

TACTIC TWO: Locally funded “Local Investment Funds”

Obviously the traditional suppliers of funds are not satisfying this role and won’t be able to for many ears as they repair the damage of their losses,. Therefore we need a new look. The only place new money can come from is us, the people. It has to come from the people, so lets create a local-business society, a quantum step up from a nation of shop-keepers.
This is an ideal role for David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ as we need everyone to be involved.
There are only four routes to fund growth:
increase profit
borrow the money
issue shares to raise more capital OR
reduce the levels of stock and debtors, thus using less money

We have new banks coming along to join the few untainted ones. Let these two groups create Local Investment Funds and then let them issue 5, 10 and 20 (*) year fixed term deposits where the tax payer/ investor gets 100% tax relief on upto £6000 invested each year. These could be named “Pension Bonds” and could be deducted from Gross Pay at any rate per month up to a maximum of £500 per month per payroll member, even pensioners.
The Local Investment Funds could fund loans or buy shares in local companies. They would publish details of their clients “Local Investment Fund Enterprises” (LIFEs) and the relationships with them eg whether and to what value they have loans or shares in them. The LIFs and LIFEs could be overseen by teams of local businessmen and the funds allocated by them. (Note: genuine businessmen not corporate executives or the self employed) and the interest, dividends and profits (and occasional losses) distributed to the LIF investors, free of any taxes.
Client LIFE businessmen could support monthly seminars to explain, once every six months, to their investors the effect their extra funding is having on their individual businesses and for example to report the number of new employees they have taken on.

*Interest rates could be set at the same level as CPI plus 1% for 5 yr bonds, CPI plus 2% for 10 yr bonds and CPI plus 4 % for 20 yr bonds, credited monthly. The Pension Bonds would mature to help provide further pensions.

To : businss.finance@bis.gsi.gov.uk
Funding Growth –

Tactic Three: Name, shame and fine Late-paying Debtors

To Reduce the funding needs for debtors: Name and shame all organisations who do not pay their invoices by the date due. Even penalise them by a fine of fifty per cent of the sum(s) paid late, payable to the Exchequer, so that there’s no pressure on the supplier. (For disputed invoices the payment is paid into escrow.)
This not only reduces the funding need it also increases the velocity of money flowing through the economy.
Local companies will be required to publish details of all overdue unpaid accounts. They could also use the LIF teams and their monthly seminars.

To : businss.finance@bis.gsi.gov.uk
Funding Growth –

Tactic Four: Encourage people who work out of town to think of themselves as ‘exporters’ brining their earnings back locally so that they can be used locally.

Encourage people to be less dependent on ‘imported’ goods and services and thus help their local area become more prosperous with more businesses and more jobs.

Encourage people to become better educated so that they get the job locally rather than a person ‘imported’ from elsewhere though the competition is tough and will increase. The result is less cost to the local society through reductions to their taxes.

231011 A few months have swept passed. We’ve given up both of the two ‘five rod’ plots on the new allotment and are just keeping the old – various reasons eg too much watering to do; two different locations; too many weeds!
So we’re running this one down. We’ve cleared all the crops except brassicas, some swede and next years onion sets (already going well), rows of raspberries, apple trees, lavender bed,
One early job is to move the composters (one down, one to go,) and that required tidying up the backside of the ‘old plot’, so one thing led to another…. as it always does, well at least I’ve more or less repaired the greenhouse!. AND as a sure sign of the next year, we have various types of beans drying on the windowsill, plus cucumbers, peppers and chilies.

270711 Well I had a week off, visiting an old friend, and whilst I was away Angie found it hard to keep the two plots going. Now that our son and daughter-in-law are really working their garden, they don’t need any vegetables or fruits from us. We’ve therefore decided to relinquish our new plot.
Obvious;y it’s full of crops at the moment but we can re-organise and release one of the two ‘five rod’ plots earlier. It does mean that we will need to buy and plant three new apple trees at the old plot.
We can release the first area after we have cropped the pole beans, the squashes, potatoes, beetroot and swedes, plus we mneed to re-plant the onions and garlics. This in turn means that we will release the remainder after the onions, garlics and brassicas have finished.
hey Ho!

Originally, say two to five thousand years ago, we all had equal rights and equal benefits based on the land and the sea, equal rights to life and happiness.

Then we had a series of events and activities where a few individuals helped themselves to other people’s wealth and chattels – theft and fraud, but there was no local law to stop them then.

We now know this was illegal, even if the theft was ‘legalised’ by parliament by for example the Enclosures Acts or the fraud was practised by the religions in manipulating the populace through fear or promising to deliver benefits which they couldn’t deliver, which is fraud.

The descendants are still enjoying an unearned benefit so we need to re-correct the situation. We need to equalise everyone’s rights and opportunities.

We want our money and our lands back!

All the current land-owners should be subject to a Land Usage Levy of a few per cent on the value of their land.

We all probably acknowledge that we need a some laws, some public servants, some defence capability, education and health services so why don’t we let the land – the asset owned by the nation, as a whole, fund the costs of these national services. We can let the annual Land Usage levy cover the costs of running the country.

It has been done before and we can do it again. We can also confiscate the church lands as a token gesture for them to apologise fro their misguided ethos and for causing us to join in so many wars.

We won’t actually get our money back but we should never again have to pay any income tax or other taxes on our earnings.