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[Dorkeaux]

If you search for "CEYOMUR Wildlife Camera" on Amazon, mine is the £32 jobbie.
It does everything you mention, but you collect the video/image files by connecting a USB cable (or popping the SD card).
So you'd walk around with a computer, connecting each camara in turn and copying...

[Dorkeaux]

I do love a pi, but that looks spendy.
Does it do live feeds over wifi? Is that a requirement?

If not, I bought a quite good PIR-triggered 4K IR video wildlife camera off Amazon for £32.
It works great. SD card not included....

[Dorkeaux]

ClientCo for me 2009-2010 was a very large London Transport organisation.
I didn't experience anything like a DEI form, but I was coming in via a small consultancy.

The staff did represent the general population more closely than most other clients I've had.
A substantial number...

[Dorkeaux]

Woo Hoo!
Good news. I'm also getting a surprising number of phone calls and messages on Linkedin....

[Dorkeaux]

I hear you. Me too.
I'm getting pretty old, or "Senior" as I phrase it on my CV.

I manage burnout up to now by:
a) Taking my retirement in pieces over my entire working life. Sometimes a year or more at a time, sometimes only a few months.
b) Managing the roles...

[Dorkeaux]

I'm not even surprised any more.
I just assume all the personal info I supply to any UK government agency goes straight to the crims and try to plan in advance....

[Dorkeaux]

Yes, Paystream put me on an emergency tax code as well when I used them some years ago.

They won't try to rectify it, it's up to you to call up HMRC to do that.
I spoke to a pleasant bloke who asked me a few questions, took my NIN and did it over the phone.

FWIW, no other...

[Dorkeaux]

Yes, it's weird.
Expenses like accountancy fees and such would probably be considered "significant".
But Companies House filing fees and the penalty for late annual accounts are not considered "significant".

Were it me, I'd pay from my personal account. ...

[Dorkeaux]

Indeed on both counts.
Canada used to be a world leader in nuclear technology with the Candu reactor programme.
Like all the other world-beating technological advances to originate in Canada, we managed to neglect and otherwise screw it up.
It's still going, but it is a shadow of what...

[Dorkeaux]

Maslins is one of the few people on these forums that I've (knowingly) done business with.
His company was of great help to me.

So when he offers his vast experience and "personal opinion" on this matter, I'm inclined to take it more seriously than the houses of cards built...

[Dorkeaux]

Yeah, I meant "convenient" in the sense of the airports being closer or the alleged timing being better.

They had a thing whereby they would blast advertisements through the tannoy from boarding to takeoff.
I think they stopped that mostly, but I have noise-cancelling headphones...

[Dorkeaux]

Jammy Git.
I've got to get back to Lanzarote, it's a great place.
The beautiful flinty white wine, the cactus reserve, all the Manrique sculptures on the roundabouts.
I even like the wrinkly little potatoes with chilli sauce that they serve up.

Being left behind at the...

[Dorkeaux]

I got a nice official email from Companies House saying they accepted my proof of address and removed my address from the three companies registered with it.

But did they? The filing documents show no change of address so I suppose they left the documents up but removed my address from...

[Dorkeaux]

Nice to see a recommendation for TUI.

I contracted there for a longish time, I got the impression they genuinely wanted to do a good job.
The pay for the permies was quite low, everyone was moonlighting. But they stayed anyway. Quite an enjoyable place.

They haemorrhage...

[Dorkeaux]

Haha.. Thanks for the tips.
I think it is more valuable to observe what HMRC actually does rather than pretend expertise in interpreting IR35....

[Dorkeaux]

Eh? I don't understand the connection....

[Dorkeaux]

I've heard this said before, and it is logical.

But does anyone have an example of this ever happening?
I dimly recall a competing anecdote stating that HMRC promised they wouldn't come after directors in that set of circumstances.

I have my doubts that this would ever...

[Dorkeaux]

If I had a quid for every person who says "I'll never fly SqueezyJet/Ryanair/Wizz etc.." then quietly uses them when it's a little cheaper and/or more convienient I would be considerably more wealthy than I am now.

Airlines each have certain attributes, tedencies towards lateness,...

[Dorkeaux]

If you don't know what you are doing in terms of investment and stock picking (almost no one does) ETFs are a much better than anuities, cash or random stock picks IMO.

You still have to make decisions, though.
And understand what you are doing.

You can buy ETFs that...

[Dorkeaux]

I've worked with Paystream, Giant and now Nasa.

They are largely aligned in terms of their KIDs, but there are some definite differences.

I find that how long it takes to get paid largely depends on the relationship between the agency and the umbrella rather than the umbrella...