The following performance of me singing “Gently” was recorded from GBC (Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation - Gibraltars only TV Station) by Roy Clinton, the video was edited (sound re-dubbed) and uploaded to YouTube by Paul Vallejo.

GBC Open Day is a once annual event held by the TV station for charity.  Local artists perform on TV, people call up and donate money, there are auctions, etc. This year a very generous population of approx 30K people donated more than £80,000.

First of all never get the first name you see. A background check is essential. Unlike me, I phoned a carpenter simply because my mother had a flyer mailed to her house and she told me “oh phone them, they must be cheap” and so I did. I needed a carpenter so I would have nice wooden flooring. The guy seemed to be professional but on some decisions would start preaching to me, which was kind of strange. Then I realised he was a Jehovah’s Witness. He runs his business from Spain in La Linea De La Conception the company is called Parque Plass. The owner is Jose Torres. He used his 3 brothers to work in my house. Jose Torres recommended a kitchen company also situated in Spain in La Linea De La Conception. The kitchen company is called Bricolaje Cruz. The flooring company owned by Jose Torres did a terrible job in my flat. The skirting where placed on top of the other skirting and they took 2 weeks to almost finish the flooring. Gosh I have so much to complain about this company. They would come every day, and every evening I would get home to find dirty knives left on the windowsill and empty packets of crisps and empty juice cartons which were bought for my daughter for school! I don’t know what made me angrier, the fact that they couldn’t wash after themselves or the fact that they were helping themselves to anything they wanted without asking me. The final straw was when I came home to find my brand new kitchen cabinet doors taken off and loads of things including personal paper work and a brand new lap top STOLEN. I made a report to the Royal Gibraltar Police. They came to my house to get a statement off me, then I headed off to the Police station in Spain. The Spanish Police told me they couldn’t help me since the criminal offence was in Gibraltar. They informed me that they could have taken some action if the Royal Gibraltar Police sent them a fax with a request to do so. The Royal Gibraltar Police didn’t help me out since they seem to sit on their bums all day or order takeaways and grow a belly.

This is just a warning for all those innocent people who want to look for a carpenter. Please do RESEARCH when looking for a qualified, well respected company. And this is a lesson I had to learn the hard way. Never hire a Citizen that doesn’t live in the same country from where you presently live and remember, “They are just a bunch of Cowboys”.