Along_the_Wire Probably avoided tax so he could buy you a snooker table and a tennis club membership so you and your mates could bray at poor people walking past the fence.
It wasn’t my dad who was the member of the tennis club (it was Dominic’s).
I’m not sure if he even really bought the snooker table either - the previous owners of the house we bought had it, and because my dad was a keen snooker player anyway and it was understandably difficult to move, we got the previous owners to agree to it being kept there.
