Tue, 07 Jan 2003
Death and Taxes
According to legend, there's no escape from death or taxes. Now we have
conclusive evidence that there's no escape from taxes in death,
as that evil miscreant Saint Walburga (d. 777 AD) has discovered.
It seems the German TV licencing authorities are threatening legal action
and a 1000 euro fine if she doesn't pay her TV licence right now.
(Meanwhile there's no escape from plumbers, as I'm discovering: about two
hours ago my central heating boiler decided to die -- the pump's fine, but
the automatic ignition ain't talking. It is, of course, the
coldest day for about three years, with the temperature outside
somewhere in the -1 to -5 degree range and the temperature oop north in
the Great Glen possibly as low as -20 celsius. Why couldn't this happen in
summer?)
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