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Felonious Crud

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Andyk said:
Good morning all.....BBQ with mother in law today....
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You must have quite a large BBQ. Will you use a rub first? Maybe onion and garlic, some spices would be good.

Morning, all. Yesterday I earned some impressive blisters sanding back and removing Danish oil from my kitchen worktop. Today I shall stick another coat or two of fresh oil on it. Also some calls regarding setting up a new company to take to market a product already built and deployed, which should be interesting. In general, I'm very much enjoying being my own boss and to some extent being able to pick and choose which things I'd like to do. Not being at the mercy of some chaos of whims, peeves, egos, paranoia, hair-brained assholery and fuckwittery is enjoyable. I should note that that statement refers to no previous employer in particular.

Oh, and the sun's come out. Unlike the plumber, who has been ill, so my boiler still runneth not. I'm hoping he can fix it otherwise I'm in for a new one. I'd get a heat-pump but my house doesn't quite fit the target demographic.

Happy Thursday, Maser-lovers.
 
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MrPea said:
Hello everyone!
After yesterday's excitement, I'd better set up a business bank account.
Also I need to prevent myself from eating crème patissière for breakfast as I made some for a midnight snack last night. No, I mean I made some last night for baking with today but it's so good I ate some as a snack. I'll be attempting home made pain aux raisins from scratch today. Should be fun, and tasty!
HapPea Thursday!
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I'm opening one with HSBC, Stevie. Free for 18 months and the rates are pretty competitive after that. It's a slow process as they're so busy. As soon as I get that done I can start clawing back some overpaid tax and NI for the first chunk of the year. I can also get paid!
 
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Felonious Crud said:
I'm opening one with HSBC, Stevie. Free for 18 months and the rates are pretty competitive after that. It's a slow process as they're so busy. As soon as I get that done I can start clawing back some overpaid tax and NI for the first chunk of the year. I can also get paid!
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Also, depending on your needs, check out Starling as an online alternative? They don't do letters of credit and I'm not sure about their business loans but as a lightweight business account?

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Felonious Crud said:
I'm opening one with HSBC, Stevie. Free for 18 months and the rates are pretty competitive after that. It's a slow process as they're so busy. As soon as I get that done I can start clawing back some overpaid tax and NI for the first chunk of the year. I can also get paid!
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Happy that I never closed mine down, or my shell company, from 20 years back. It comes in handy :)

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CatmanV2 said:
Happy that I never closed mine down, or my shell company, from 20 years back. It comes in handy :)

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That's the goal with mine, regardless of whether I end up back on PAYE or doing my own things. It's handy for the odd bit of moonlighting advisory stuff that blows through from time to time, and a good way of helping offset various annoying costs.
 
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RobinL said:
Also, depending on your needs, check out Starling as an online alternative? They don't do letters of credit and I'm not sure about their business loans but as a lightweight business account?

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Starling seemed relatively expensive when I looked. OK if revenues are low, but it can get costly fast (was my assessment). Still, probably less of an ar5e-ache to open an account than with the bigger banks.
 
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Felonious Crud said:
That's the goal with mine, regardless of whether I end up back on PAYE or doing my own things. It's handy for the odd bit of moonlighting advisory stuff that blows through from time to time, and a good way of helping offset various annoying costs.
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Very much so. Mine is also VAT registered (as I bought I company Triumph Speed Triple) which offsets those costs even more so, at the expense of 'some' extra admin.

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Just as a quick business related thing. I use Moneydance to do all my accounting it's easy, configurable, good reports (build your own) and cheap?
And for personal taxes I use Taxcalc again cheap, easy and manages 3 separate submissions.
I'm a bit old school and unless a computer or program makes my life easier in some I'm not interested.
Ps I have no involvement with either company product above just thought they are worth recommending.

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Morning all.

Office bound again today, I seem to be making a bit of headway with our new venture, and getting quite a few decent projects lined up.
Although a group of small quick ones fell off the radar yesterday, to be replaced with 8 massive projects, however, they will take considerably longer to get over the line (1Q21/2Q21/3Q21).

The good thing is things are moving in the right direction.

This time next year Rodders......

Oh, and for those who are interested, love him or hate him, I picked up a signed Diego Maradona Argentina shirt for an absolute steal yesterday.
Yes we all know he's a cheating Argie ****, however, I personally believe he's still the greatest footballer ever (yes, better than Messi and Ronaldo).
And as he, well, doesn't look after himself, I would say his years on this planet are numbered. And could be a very worthwhile investment.
 
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MrPea said:
Hello everyone!
After yesterday's excitement, I'd better set up a business bank account.
Also I need to prevent myself from eating crème patissière for breakfast as I made some for a midnight snack last night. No, I mean I made some last night for baking with today but it's so good I ate some as a snack. I'll be attempting home made pain aux raisins from scratch today. Should be fun, and tasty!
HapPea Thursday!
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Is this new business a Artisanal Boulangerie?
 
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Afternoon, just back from short break - a few days earlier than planned as Storm Ellen took down some trees which took the only power cable to where we were, no power means no pump hence no water. No problem ESB advise it will be fixed by Monday at the latest FFS
 
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