Full time job, long term employment, regular pay, OK!

Freelance, not quite so OK.

Without beating about the bush then, I wouldn't really want to just travel to London even if it was occasionally just for a meeting which might last a few hours.

As for pulling sickies, doesn't really work when there is only 2 or 3 people in each day. It's not like we have a office full of staff where if someone goes off sick they're not missed.

Anywhere that doesn't notice someone being off sick is presumably a bit overstaffed. But oh well, up to you.

Anybody else want this opportunity?

I don't, as I am most certainly too moody for him. I imagine it will go something like this.

"I need you to make it so when they load the page it says, really loudly, 'Welcome to Uncle Bob's Anal Playhouse!!!'"

"Yeah, I'm not going to do that. That would be retarded and annoying. What if someone's browsing at work? Do you want people to not shop your site when they're on their lunch break at work?"

"Why are you so moody? You're fired!"

Thing is, he's right.

Then again, I grew a lot as a person and learned a lot of things as a freelance developer that I'd never have learned (or grown) if I'd stayed in a secure job.

I just never really had much money.