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Don't you have a spreadsheet with all your data for such purposes? My hat!

I have lots of data in spreadsheets. The question is how much do I need to reveal for any particular purpose. How much is “needed” is always less than what is “wanted.”

Name, given name, pass number, flight numbers, hotel name, what more?

Full copy of passport with personal info

Personal home address

Bank details (this is ok!)

At this point stealing my identity is trivial.

Physical taxi receipts instead of pdf. They assume I’m going to forge receipts, so seems fair that I assume they will steal my identity.

EU paperwork is legendary.

I spoke at a conference in Luxembourg recently. For free. They were going to reimburse my travel costs. But the paperwork was horrendous. So I wrote it off. I won’t be speaking there again!

Yikes! Outsource that stuff!
Besides, get them to plan your flght A-Z. It's not rocket science.

They did the flight, that’s easy because it’s paid in advance, as was the hotel. It was the rest that needed the unnecessaries.

I find it strange so many people see those wanting a reduction in paperwork as the baddies. All very Lewis Carroll.

The worst I had was that I had to change the word VAT to to the equivalent in a European language. Of course, it takes them 2 months to reprocess invoice. 

You probably won't have noticed this but there's been a very big change in UK politics...reporters are now pronouncing "Farage" correctly! (Cuch, no. I said no. Down, boy.)

I didn't see it coming.

In some circles they call him "Fartage, forage, fuhrage, foddage". 

"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, ..."!

If David Putnam were to make a film "Animal Farm", then Nigel could play Mr. Whymper. Who would play Messers Pilkington (Boris??) and Jones?

Happy 8th anniversity, BREXIT.
tempus fugit.