Tempting fate?

[DaveB]

Gone plug in hybrid for now. We did look at full electric but the charging infrastructure isn't quite there yet to support long journeys reliably. Give it 3 years and we'll be looking again....

[DaveB]

Done pretty much the same. Gone for new as it was close to the price of used and got lucky that the dealer had one that was the spec we wanted in the showroom. Otherwise would be a 4 month wait....

[DaveB]

Blue skies, light breeze, high wispy clouds here.




etc....

[DaveB]

Just traded in my old car against something new. Got £3k more for it than I was quoted last year despite having more miles on the clock and having a few extra scuffs and scrapes. Actually got more for it than I would have done through one of those car buying sites and close to what I would have got...

[DaveB]

Agree on the buying a coffee level of use but it could make sense for PayPal to enable Crypto as payment for online purchases etc. International purchases and fund transfers without currency fees would be the obvious uses....

[DaveB]

So you can now buy Crypto via your PayPal account.

Bitcoin
Bitcoin Cash
Etherium
Litecoin

Buy direct from your PayPal account. Paypal take a service fee based on the purchase value.

No wallets, no keys, no accounts on trading sites etc. Crypto...

[DaveB]

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No chance lights will go out, says government...

[DaveB]

Indeed....

[DaveB]

The 2021 Ig Nobles have been announced.

https://www.improbable.com...

[DaveB]

That would be wonderful, but the legacy of NHS reforms is a fragmented service in competition with itself. There is no central leadership, that was abdicated in favour of a "Health Market" formed of devolved NHS Trusts acting in their own interests and driven by the need to be seen to make...

[DaveB]

The flip side is that the client will have very similar clauses in their contract with the agency.

If the customer wants you then they will have to negotiate with the agency as well. Less of a problem if it is their idea, more so if you are pitching the idea to them.

It's...

[DaveB]

Sewage dumping rules relaxed amid Brexit-induced chemicals shortage

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[DaveB]

Double whammy for anyone working Inside IR35. Employee and Employer NIC increases....

[DaveB]

Going to be Green Tomato chutney here this year thanks to the crap summer....

[DaveB]

It's the rights attempt to discredit BLM by conflating it with things like Marxism, AntiFa etc. They tried the same with the Capitol riots, they tried to say it was a false flag operation by AntiFa rather than a bunch of right wing conspiracy nut jobs....

[DaveB]

Andrew Neil is 'likely to quit' GB News following a rift with the channel's chief executive and other top bosses, as it is confirmed he will not make a return to his evening show next week...

[DaveB]

Tell the client and agent this is significantly different in scope to the contract you signed up to and if it doesn't get sorted you will walk. Give them a time scale.

A month is reasonable notice to look for another gig. If an agent asks say it's negotiable. Clients in the main are in...

[DaveB]

Live in Pompeii was better ( or weirder, or more pretentious depending on your point of view )....

[DaveB]

Tax and Spend, you know it makes sense

[DaveB]

Good questions, but it's not HMRC who make the decisions on this. The Insolvency Service are a Govt. agency in their own right with considerable powers to investigate offences in relation to bankruptcy, debt and company failures.
https://www.gov.uk/government/organi...lvency-service...