I had my notice through. I\'m due in court for a hearing on the 24th August. Makes me wonder what man has managed to say to get a hearing out of this. Well I get a copy of his evidence and documents by Wednesday 27th so I\'ll see then. I\'m not looking forward to receiving his documents or going to court. Even though I know i\'m in the right it\'s still a hard thing to go through purely because he doesn\'t seem to have any concern. I don\'t understand why people can be so cold hearted.

People I\'ve spoke to tell me \'that\'s business\'. No I\'m sorry, that\'s pig ignorance and a disgusting way to act. I don\'t consider a decent human being to act in this way. It\'s not even like he needs the money. He owns his house outright in Kingston, sorry it\'s not a house it\'s a mansion! The money I\'m claiming is pocket change to him. Fine he\'s earnt it fair and square, that\'s no problem to me, but why fight something you know to be wrong? If he seems to think he\'s in the right then I can\'t even understand how he got to where he is in business now.

So now I have to go through the process of photocopying all of my evidence and documents again. I\'ve gotten two other clients to write letters to state they knew I lived in Wales since last May (one of his arguments was that he didn\'t know) and that it\'s not affected my work or attendance (another of his arguments which is a complete lie). Still my Mum (my rock at times like these) is coming up and I\'m sure we\'ll hit the shops after regardless of the outcome. It\'s money I\'ve never seen at the end of the day so if I win I\'ll spend it!

I sometimes despair with certain clients. I currently have this one account – originally it was run by a guy in this country who has 4 other web sites with me. No problems, everything ran smoothly etc. Then the guy in charge decided his daughter was going to do the design (shame she can\'t actually design) and collate all of the information and provide it all to me to create the web site. Trouble is a seriously lack of communication between Dad and daughter, and both were foreign and their written english was not the easiest to understand. So I peservered and did everything I could as quoted for. Then they asked why it wasn\'t live. Well a website that\'s only 25% complete if that should not be live. Last instruction was to make the web site live.

Then the other day I had an email telling me there were 1000 documents to go online and would be provided in word document format. So when I came back with a price for the whole lot I got an email saying the agreement was 2000 euros per year paid for the upkeep of the website regardless of how much work comes through!

So I\'ve basically told them where to go. I can\'t take a risk when I know work like that can be given to me and I have no say on the price. I sometimes wonder if these people actually use their heads and realise that work takes time and time equals money. I\'m happy to quote for work when I know what it is but not agree to a price and see what happens.