Thanks for the info.

Squash is a bit like a cordial but less sweet and sticky and you can get sugar free stuff, it is basically a fruit-based concentrate which you mix with water, it's great stuff.

Flexible-working varies, where I work I am contracted to work 37.5 hours a week but I can pretty much choose my working hours (eg I work with somebody who is in the office 7:30-3:30) and if people have leave early for some reason then that is fine as long as they make up the hours. Some people have a policy whereby they can save-up overtime hours until they have enough for a whole day and then take that day as an extra days leave.

I have heard that American employers are much tougher than European ones and I was wondering to what extent this was true.