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[NickFitz]

Yesterday two books arrived: This Way Up by the 'Map Men'…

Speaking of maps, this exhibition at the British Library looks pretty interesting: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles...0-times-84928/

[NickFitz]

Just spent forever and a day trying to get through to a human being on the phone at HMRC

My accountants need to renew their authorisation for PAYE, which involves them requesting a code from HMRC, which is sent to the client by post, who sends it to them. But when I moved here, I changed MyCo's registered office address to theirs (and pay for the privilege). And HMRC, at least by default, send the codes to the registered office.

The accountants insist that they haven't received them, so unless HMRC somehow had my old address, where they've gone is a mystery. I'd never added PAYE to my business tax account online as the accountants deal with that, and I need about three different reference numbers to add it, one of which I don't have. I'll have to find it; it's probably somewhere in some document or email

Personally, I reckon the accountants have screwed up and binned the post addressed to MyCo; when I requested the change, they not only forgot to notify Companies House, they also forgot to notify their own finance department so they could start charging MyCo for the service. So I wouldn't be surprised if they also forgot to add MyCo to the list of "post that shouldn't be chucked in the bin on arrival"

Anyway, HMRC have made my home address the default, so now they can request a new code and it might even turn up

[NickFitz]

Hot dog for lunch, being a German frankfurter so long it had to be split across two finger rolls, with curry ketchup

[ladymuck]

Speaking of maps, this exhibition at the British Library looks pretty interesting: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles...0-times-84928/

Thanks! That does indeed look interesting.

[xoggoth]

Gordon Bennet. More bad news. My nice lady neighbour just phoned to say she's been diagnosed with terminal cancer.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribeye steak with fried onions and chips

No beans this time, as I had them yesterday and it's not as if I need the extra calories

One minor thing I've accomplished this week is moving the Mac Mini into the study and hooking it up to one of the HDMI ports on my widescreen monitor, which means I can start using it properly for development stuff. This has initially consisted of getting the WordPress stuff needed for my sister's site all set up and working

It's pretty on-brand for me to spend nearly five grand on a computer, then fail to make any real use of it for nearly a year because I can't be bothered with the enormous hassle of carrying it to another room and crawling under the desk to plug it in

[NickFitz]

Gordon Bennet. More bad news. My nice lady neighbour just phoned to say she's been diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Sorry to hear that. It's not been a good Friday for you <- manly