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The Little Balcony: Where to buy?
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Having been a keen gardener and cook for many years and I have recently decided to write my own cook book, entitled, The Little Balcony Cook Book. This will contain recipes I love to make with veg and fruit I've grown on my very own Little Balcony. And this is where my Cook Books story begins. Food Shows and Festivals 2013. Garden Shows and Festivals 2013. Fruit and Vegetable Plants and Seeds. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). BlueFishBaker - Via Twitter (Sept 2011). Fred mckenzie - Via Twitter (July 2011).
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chokka blog: The Great Escape
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Thinking allowed: musings on business, the economy and scottish politics @kevverage. Sunday, 3 May 2015. I'm just back from one of my regular business trips to China. These trips always provide a refreshing sense of perspective on the political and economic debates we have in the UK. But these blog posts will have to wait, because today I feel compelled to focus on one topic: economic growth. Since the referendum the publication of two sets of Scottish national accounts ("GERS") and the focus on the econ...
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chokka blog: January 2015
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Thinking allowed: musings on business, the economy and scottish politics @kevverage. Sunday, 18 January 2015. Time for SOBR Reflection. In today's Scotland on Sunday Jackie Baillie has called for the establishment of a Scottish Office for Budget Responsibility (SOBR) ( Jackie Baillie: Weed out parties’ financial fantasy. Back in December I wrote a blog post highlighting the cavalier approach the Scottish Government had taken towards oil and gas forecasting ( Oil and Gas: will we ever learn? Deserve speci...
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chokka blog: Oil Price and Scottish Tax Generation
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Thinking allowed: musings on business, the economy and scottish politics @kevverage. Monday, 20 April 2015. Oil Price and Scottish Tax Generation. It's highly frustrating when the debate on Scotland's economy is reduced to a simplistic "when the oil price recovers we'll be fine". From Gordon McIntyre-Kemp of "Business for Scotland" (who have given up any pretence of being anything other than SNP cheerleaders as evidenced in detail here. Is it just me or can you see a trend emerging here? This might be fo...
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chokka blog: Full Fiscal Autonomy for Dummies
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Thinking allowed: musings on business, the economy and scottish politics @kevverage. Saturday, 18 April 2015. Full Fiscal Autonomy for Dummies. Full Fiscal Autonomy (FFA) means Scotland keeping everything we raise from taxes and using that money for our own spending (including paying the UK government for defence and foreign affairs and certain shared administrative services). To the rest of the UK. If Scotland's deficit rate. There would be a funding gap (i.e. our fair share. Than the UK's we would be r...
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chokka blog: May 2015
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Thinking allowed: musings on business, the economy and scottish politics @kevverage. Sunday, 31 May 2015. I spent my high school years living on the Inner Hebridean island of Islay. My school bus-route skirted the shores of Lochindaal - a magnificent sea loch which is home to thousands of barnacle geese in the winter. The journey would take about 45 minutes. Of course the nearer I got to home the emptier the bus would become and I'd gaze out of the window and let my mind wander. Think about the average t...
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chokka blog: Full Fiscal Autonomy in 700 Words
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Thinking allowed: musings on business, the economy and scottish politics @kevverage. Saturday, 25 April 2015. Full Fiscal Autonomy in 700 Words. This piece originally appeared in the Daily Record. When the SNP campaigned for Independence they convinced many voters that a Yes vote would make us better off. Those voters should now be asking themselves why the SNP is backing away from the idea of Full Fiscal Autonomy (FFA) anytime soon. The Scottish Government's own figures (GERS) tell us where we would sta...
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chokka blog: September 2014
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Thinking allowed: musings on business, the economy and scottish politics @kevverage. Monday, 29 September 2014. The Sovereign Will of the Scottish People. The Scottish Independence Referendum is over. The question was unambiguous: Should Scotland be an independent country? The answer was equally clear: No. The Sovereign Will of the Scottish people is that we should remain part of the United Kingdom. A couple of closing observations:. 1 It wasn't close (from BBC Results. More people voted No than voted Yes.
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chokka blog: It Doesn't Matter
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Thinking allowed: musings on business, the economy and scottish politics @kevverage. Saturday, 9 May 2015. The SNP should be applauded for their remarkable General Election success. Those of us who criticised their campaign rhetoric and felt their economic policies were potentially hugely damaging to Scotland must take pause. What do we learn from this? It turns out that in Scottish politics at least, quite a lot of things don't really matter. Nicola Sturgeon adopted a similar tone. It is not enough, it ...
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