Happily Ever After
Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running
Earlier posts can be found on Adventures of a Lone Bass Player, where this blog began life. Recent entries can be found here.
Stand and Deliver
by admin - 23:51 on 21 January 2011
It's the time of year when Mr Taxman sends the threatening letter to remind we self-employed people that the deadline for filing a return, and paying the dosh, is the last day of January, so today I got down to business.
In the end, the whole online task took barely an hour, thanks partly to my efficient record-keeping but mostly to the derisory amount of income I've enjoyed and the pathetically few expenses I've managed to set against it. Being honest has its drawbacks.
I'd expected to pay more than last year, when I made my first self-employed tax return, but the total digital demand was a bit of a shock, containing as it did half of the sum I'm predicted to pay this tax year as well as all of last year's. The other half will be required by the end of July.
So if anyone would like a simple but perfectly serviceable website created for them (such as the one I recently completed for Broadley Garden Centre in Nairn) or needs someone to help design an award-winning, best-selling book, my rates are competitive.
Pine Marten Update: The television was turned off at 10.30 tonight, which was why the sound of frenzied chomping carried so clearly from the windowsill outside. Matchgirl and I got the best and longest look at the visitor we've had this winter.
But it wasn't Master Marten, whose bib has three dots on the right-hand side – the stripe proved that this was Miss Marten, or someone with a bib very like hers.
She made short work of the goodies on the gate and windowsill before scampering up The Nutella Tree for more, then disappearing into the dark. It's good to see her again.
Miss Marten pictured in June
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