From the Close Invoice Finance blog
A little more fizz please
Established as a health resort in 1860, famous faces such as Treasure Island author Robert Louis Stevenson and German Nobel Prize winner for Literature Thomas Mann and even the great Arthur Conan Doyle spent time in the mountains of Switzerland soaking up the rarified air of the Alpine Ski Resort.
Faster than the speed of light
Before the 17th century scientists believed that there was no such thing as the ‘speed of light’. They thought that light could travel any distance in no time at all.
A resolution worth sticking to
After the overindulgence of the festive season many of us will, once again, make promises to get fit, quit smoking or make some improvements to our lives in the year ahead.
Expect the unexpected
“Every mile is two in winter”, so wrote 17th-century Welsh clergyman and metaphysical poet George Herbert, and I’m quite sure many of our transport and logistics firms would say amen to that too!
LEZ changes are looming – don’t let them drive your business into the ground
The Big Smoke of December 1952 in London was like none before – it created a blanket of sulphurous smog, so dense that visibility was less than half a metre and over the course of four days the polluted air killed some 4,000 people.