Mike started crying to every & anyone that he was some sort of victim ... but I was only acting as a rival as we had done against our former bosses when we were in "partnership" but WEAK people always get it wrong ... the dirt he threw around , however , caused M & S to back off... which was unfortunate as I had employed young Steve Markey as a director with shares, and my elder brother (also Mike) as a director whom I was bringing into the operations so I could develop the whole group activities
so...
after "Seabrook &" ... the S & S empire ..managing 8 companies was easy.. until...another betrayal )
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just starting to watch " no time to die " which in fact IS the death IMO of Bond films , contrary to popular (sheeple & the media stupidity of course) aclaim is a load of shYte ...
After the opening sequence * discounting that a 1oo bullets & an explosion dont harm our X M16 supped up hero , i liked casino Royale & Skyfall, (which is where they should have stopped , but of course the producers are greedy USA corp products.. ) it goes rapidly into decline a mexs of "sketches" thrown together ... this version of James easily sucked into a scam by "spectre" (i mean to make Blofled his foster brother lst time out was SO ridiculous...)
cconsidering it was suposed to be released in 2020 ... and is about a super villian in a MASK , who has a targeted VIRUS (bug) as weapon is almost as ironic as the 2020/2021...creeping into 2022 BULL sh&te PLANdemic & its “ancillary" reaction worldwide...!
fiction almost as facrical as "real life" ...
anyway back to more pieces of MY puzzle...? ( well it may be a puzzle until you , (if you can actually focus for more than 5 minutes) get through the series of "ChRiSlive logs & videos etc ) ;)
so...
I decided to spread my talents after a pause ; formed " S & S wine services Ltd" & 7 other companies owned by my off shore CS holding Ltd..
I offered Marks & Spencer my services and Stuart was in agreement until the stupidity of Mike Seabrook & the greed of his lawyer caused the " isssue " to be aired in public s...
I was also soon to take on Linda ..... (hmmmmm a lesson to learn, DO not employ "family" or attractive women ??? )
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local
So, yesterday I walked again & took the boat, to “connect” & shop, although there is an occasional delivery “combie” that comes with limited items – its really necessary to go to HN for other stuff & to connect with “society” for a while... I had a couple of lively discussions with Dejan (at the Pub) , Petar (on the ferry) and Darko (an unemployed “diplomat” in his car with his buddy (Bobby) who gave me a ride back, by chance, after my planed ride didnt turn up...
My accompanied “friend” ( a dog I named “sandy”) walked again with me, from Mrkovi, but got into a literal “dogfight” with the locals (reminds me of the unsaid hostile attitude of the local men!) ...
I am perceived as their “bankomat” but, as Petar said, if you (me) go anywhere alone , you are seen as “strange” in all the years , its difficult to recall anyone local being “friendly” (without an ulterior, financial motive) ,
(back to ChRiS “puzzle” continued )
....however , all this local IGNORANCE may seem “minor” in comparison with the time I seperated (“divorced” ) from mike seabrook (no capital letters, he was a “small man” by character ,,, I told him so when I met him at the wine & spirit banquet, no matter how much money, he had no “class” and thats NOTHING to do with CLASS!) ... ;)
..so, ......... I approached Stuart (M&S), once I had formed my own wine service company ; “ S & S wine services Ltd”
(sure its a similar name, because in my mind I was going to show mike what he had done by simply continuing without HIM, and Steve Markey came with me, whom I made director and 25% shareholder, as I wanted him to take the responsibility and BE a true shareholding manager in his daily duties for the company...)
I formed an off-shore holding company ; details were sent to Mike George of Ellisons solicitors (and I dont recall why, but that became important later on)
I had used my fund and a loan/investment from Barclays bank to invest in George & Roger (Weargrove) and their planned shopping mall (at Stanstead Mountfitchet, near to the soon to be built Stanstead Airport)
George and I planned a wine bar ; which, due to the curiosity of local pub owners , we called “What Wine Bar” (?) ...
I later opened a “cash & carry” with Italian wines (mostly) sold by the case (only) for licence reasons...
“What Wine warehouse”
with logistics / shipping ; I was then managing 8 companies ; and thought it would be a good idea to also employ my (much older) brother ; also Michael as a Director, of some of the companies ... and by chance I met his sister – in – law ; Linda Peacock (Brown).. and her attitude impressed me.. she had a knack of being able to “read” people and persuade them – I felt that if I could “train her” she would become an excellent sales director...
She was attractive and was a quick learner of the trade basics & able to persuade potential customers...
However TWO “negative hurdles” affected my plans..
1) seabrook not only took out a high court injunction to stop me taking the “Marks & Spencer” (M & S) orders (worth around half a million GBP profit per annum) HE (stupidly in my opinion) aired his dirty linen in public...
Stuart Ninian (buyer at M & S) told me ; “ChRiS, I am sorry, I am sure your service is the best, but we cant get involved in such legal actions so we have to cancel the orders with you, (and maybe also with seabrook!) “
I had to withdraw, out of professional respect & honesty , I think seabrook also lost about half of the M & S business...
and
2) I had newly opened a shipping/distribution/logistics office at Abingdon ..(near Oxford)
and organised a house mortgage for Linda nearby as she was to be the office manager & use it also as sales base (with a female assistant)
The ANNUAL Wine & Spirit benevolent banquet was “THE social event of the international wine trade”
so I organised a table (tickets were 50 GBP THEN (without drinks) we had a reception room for guests, agent Domenico Pedrini came over from Trento, and another director of an Italian wine producer, (forgotten name?) Melvyn Plawner , our group accountant, lawyer Christopher (?) of our group lawyers (Richard Barush?, and thats another story!)
and a couple of wine trade clients...(names??)
my wife jacqui, & Linda (Peacock-Brown)
5 courses and of course a different wine with each course...
we had drinks before and cognacs etc after, but then I had planned to go with Linda to the new abingdon office to help move things on there... I had put my big series 7 BMW into garage service and they had given me a small sports 3 series BMW, it was fun to drive, so I was fine with it... but after the meal etc was over,
I was arguing with Linda , she didnt want me to drive...
(she was right) but I felt fine, (i thought) but we kept on arguing in the car, and despite me knowing just about every part of London (and its streets , like a London cabby) ... I found myself in the wrong road,
and probably the booze in my brain, pushed me into driving faster, then I saw a blue flashing light in the rear view mirror... a police VAN... then “stupidity” took over .. (something in me decided to out-run the (slow?) police van??? )
I soon found myself of the familiar 3 lane section of the North (London) circular road, which I knew very well.... I WAS DRIVING LIKE JAMES BOND, WEAVING IN AND OUT OF THE OTHER CARS , but the police van was still behind me, so I decided to cut across the lanes and use an exit (hoping to escape through side streets of that North London area) ...BUT, and i dont know how they got it set up so quick, there was a police road block as i came down off the main route exit road...!!!!!!!!!!!
I slammed the brakes on, and said to Linda “I cant lose my license, switch places ..IT WAS a COMEDY, in a small sports car, trying to change places, as the car doors were opened , and about a dozen coppers surrounded the car, ...
I was dragged out (still wearing the dinner suit/bow tie ...smoking jacket) ..and virtually thrown into the back of the police van, a BIG policemen knelt on my chest and said with his fist ready “ if you move”...I just shrugged...”ok”...
but as they took me into the (hendon?) station I tried to call to Linda to get Ian (local solicitor that I we had personal contact with socially) .one of the bizzies punched me in the guts... then I was in a police cell..
never had much to do with the police ... I asked to make a call... then about 1 a.m. they let me call ..Jacqui was staying with her mum... who answered the phone wearily... I asked” Can I talk to Jacqui?” ..
her mum wasnt impressed... she said “ she is sleeping” ...I said’ it IS important” ... and then jacqui came to the phone, I said “ please call ian & am at police station (Hendon?) arrested ...”
Jacqui, sort of laughed “ ChRiS , I know you silly jokes, are you drunk? Its 1 in the morning, I am tired, stop playing games, GOOD night” ...!!!!
(...BTW the “reason” the police (“bizzies”) were extra aggressive was a) Hendon is where they train the “enthusiastic young police” and b) the care the garage had given me for the day had IRISH registration plates ... (and it was around the time of the I.R.A bombings in London!!!!!!!!!)
well sometime the next morning Linda (who had not been arrested ) were before the magistrate, i was tired and still a bit drunk, as I tried to argue that the care had smoked glass windows so the police couldnt be sure who was driving (as we were half way stuck over the gear box when they opened the car doors! ..ha ha ha ..I can laugh about it now....but...
They took away my driving licence (18 months ) and fined me 1500 GBP , quite a lot in those days,,,
so Linda became my sales Director AND my driver. .which meant we spent TOO much time together..
trouble brewing,....
Local “interval”
Friday there was a power cut, which started exactly as I left the home base! ... Michal does NOT seem to grasp the dangerous health risk, caused by MOLD in a confirmed space such as my bedroom...
I discovered my best jacket (bought in Liverpool) and my nearly new 2-piece suit have very bad “mold damage” ...just these damages cost me over 200 euros...
I had a BBQ (grill) today (saturday) and cooked some of the cevapi, because it goes off quickly , I marinated the meat , not sure if I am the only one in this culture has done this,...
back to “puzzle continues”...
..so, back then I was “always” together with Linda , and although she was 5 years older, and had known me when I was a young boy.. (her estranged husband Graham had also lived in Sydervelt avenue , C I when I was a boy...)
One evening over dinner, we flirted , and then had an affair,., wild, passionate at times, extreme,,,
I loved Jacqui, but also Linda, until...there was some meetings between our :triangle: and THEY were friends AND even discussed sharing me, it made me ill, and yet I had to make a decision...
so returned to Jacqui, which obviously upset Linda, she played :I will survive” song to em through the phone, (i have hated that song ever since then!)
the next problem, which we perhaps should have been aware of... was that Linda wrote that she had a form of leukemia (“one cell anemia”) and had to attend a swiss clinic and consult a harley street specialist doctor.. she “could no longer work for the group”...
We couldnt imagine it to be a lie... surely no one would lie about such a thing?
One night I was back from travelling , went to the wine bar, to keep Jacqui (who was then managing it) company, it was a monday,, so although I liked socializing with the customers , offering them new wines to taste... I knew there would be few customers ..
but it gave me a chance to catch up with Jacqui’s news as I had been away travelling for the group... somewhere abroad, ... (that aspect of our marriage, as good , FRESH,, and when Jacqui died in 2005 , we were NOT divorced, we were separated , but she never wanted an official divorce......>>>>)
towards the end of the evening, we were sitting together at table, a man dressed in a dark formal business suit came in, used the cigarette machine, then left, I thought to myself “ hmmm strange, donty usually get that type of man in this area of Stanstead”
then , just as we were preparing to lock up, that man , retuned, and said “ this is an injunction, these papers relate to this, you must give ME the keys to this Bar and ... (I started getting angry and wanted to read this pile of stuff...) he interrupted me and said “ no good getting angry with me, and reading through several hundred pages AS MY COLLEAGUES (he only was a legal solicitor) ARE at your HOME, as we speak, doing something similar...” (so called “officers of the court”)
We were in Jacqui’s car, but she drove fast, and as we parked in the road outside OUR house (I called it Jacqui’s as I was away so much, and she had chosen it)
there was LINDA. On the other side of the driveway, whilst these “lawyers” carried out box after box of our personal belongings...
LINDA WASNT sick! ...she was “conducting” this too... I went to “talk with her” but a policeman stepped in my way and said “ this injunction also prevents you being within xxx metres of that lady...
When they had gone, (Jacqui was crying...) 2 uniformed police, (requested by their “ officers of the court”) were given a cup of tea, I made for us ,..th elder just shook his head and said “ hell hath no fury , as a woman scorned” ....
But when I read through the “Anton Pillar Moreva Injunction” (which I was later informed was/is the equivalent of a NUCLEAR attack in the legal system)
WE (Jacqui as well as myself) were accused of FRAUD by the directors (Linda & brother Mike) of the other companies...
A stupid (or corrupt) judge had given them the right to strip me & the group of all assets, financial & documentation ..that night ALL documents (including our passports & private banking info etc) had been taken from;
* the wine bar
* the shipping/operations office
* our accountants office
* our lawyers office....
and the defendants were myself (ChRiS) and..Jacqui!!!! which made me very angry..
MY “training” of LINDA had created a MONSTER ..who
* Knew how we operated in each company
* took the groups assets , and moved the wine stock into SEABROOK’s warehouse...
* Convinced my elder brother (Mike) to act against Jacqui & me!
IF they WON in the high court , we were finished... (* we were close to finish anyway..0 this type of injunction was meant , for example, to stop a big ship from leaving docks, if suspected of having legal cargo on board...
WE /I had no evidence to defend us with,,,UNTIL , I recalled having sent a copy of the “CS holdings group structure to Mike G ..a while before....
I contacted him at Ellisons, Colchester, and he made some sarcastic remarks about my status, BUT confirmed that he had the letter, which showed Linda & co to be lying...
but it took 3 months to get back into court to counter their accusations.. in the mean time, wine stock, bank accounts & ancillary assets were being removed , and THIS LINDA & my brother Michael’s betrayal (oh when I challenged HIM, he, and ex national boxing champion, knocked me down, I wasn't ready for that, it was hard to take, that 2 of the 3 people I would have defended with my life had betrayed me, Mike took 6,500 GBP from one of the companies in leu of salary, and Linda (& co) took care of the rest..
That “experience” cost me my “empire” worth around one million GBP!!!!!!!,,,, to be ...continued;
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