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[sadkingbilly]

afternoon all
just wondering whether to carry on supporting the economy, or retiring <permanently, this time> due to all the extra admin sh1te this guvmint's imposing to make tax even more of a cockup than it is already.
I'll get away with this year by just doing a tax return, but then they want upfront money for work i may not actually get!!*
so i have to give them money and ask for it back <without interest> 1 year later.
Really??
I don't think so.
HMRC don't seem to get that freelance people don't get regular monthly/annual wages.
I don't know how much i'll earn until i've actually been paid FFS.
<rant over>

[ladymuck]

Chocs and flowers procured to take down to Mum tomorrow.

Chilly out but still nice in the sunshine.

[ladymuck]

afternoon all
just wondering whether to carry on supporting the economy, or retiring due to all the extra admin sh1te this guvmint's imposing to make tax even more of a cockup than it is already.
I'll get away with this year by just doing a tax return, but then they want upfront money for work i may not actually get!!*
so i have to give them money and ask for it back 1 year later.
Really??
I don't think so.
HMRC don't seem to get that freelance people don't get regular monthly/annual wages.
I don't know how much i'll earn until i've actually been paid FFS.

The whole self assessment thing is a bit of a nonsense sometimes. If you have a reasonably fair idea of your income for the next year but HMRC are forecasting your up front payments to exceed what you'll owe, you can reduce the payments on account. You can do that any time before the first payment is due in January so plenty of time to get a feel for it. Although, if you're self-employed, not sure if that's different under MTD.

[NickFitz]

Tea tonight was brought to me from KFC

And while that was on its way across town, I paid the Council Tax, this year’s bill having arrived in the post yesterday. I prefer paying it off straight away rather than doing instalments, so I don’t have to think about it again for a year

[NickFitz]

Today’s TV included Monkey Life plus there wildlife stuff

And tonight I finished reading The Three-Body Problem. Onwards to the second part of the trilogy!

I also won £250 on a local lottery I subscribe to

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 13.5 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 10 deg in the leanto.

1006.5 mBar, 29.72 in Hg, 754.9 Torr, 14.598 psi, (down from 1007 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 20th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, covbob, and NF popped in, with AndyGarbs grabbing the Om.

It's not dry any more: walk cancelled due to inclement weather.

Freecell score: 85%, running average: 84%.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: a thing on R4 I couldn't be arsed to listen to.

Still raining. Grey. Sunless. Windier.

Tea: beans on toast (cheesy). Nice enough. Entertainment: 17 o'clock news.

Sergeant Cork S3 E8 "The case of the monk's hood murder". Shades of Brother Cadfael.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with lumps of fluff. Dry. A bit of a breeze tickling the trees. Currently 9 degrees ('feels like' 7) with a high of 11 expected. Barometer up to 1014 mBar.

Sunrise 06:16; Sunset 18:06 GMT

Off to see Mum today. For a change, my brother will be there rather than gigging with his band. That means an opportunity to get him to do a job on my car

[xoggoth]

Family thing was ok yesterday, my favourite nephew was there. Sister staying for weekend, but I'll get a nice meself day tomorrow.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

I got distracted by the forum import stuff earlier and forgot to post weather stats!

It’s cloudy and windy again. Currently 10°C which is as good as we’ll get, but “feels like” 1° because of the wind. The barometers are roughly unchanged at 993/1001mB, and showers are expected to start soon and carry on through the afternoon

On the forum import stuff, I sorted out the vB5-style quotes so they’ll end up with the correct values. I also checked video and image tags are converted correctly. And they’ve changed [noparse] to [plain], though their conversion code takes care of that OK. But I’m so used to [noparse] that I’m tempted to add it back as a custom code and point it to the same functionality, as that appears to be an option

Quick lunch break now though I’m not that hungry, so I’m making do with a bag of chicken crisps

Walkers have changed the packs to a slightly redder shade of orange. I assume this involved extensive consumer research and focus groups and such, but I’m sure it was money well spent