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I woke up as my alarm went off at 8. Christmas day used to be about presents and tv, lie-ins and luxury, having a nice day. As i continue on my journey towards senility, it is becoming increasingly apparent that those days are gone ;)
Apart from the 15 minutes I enjoyed eating breakfast and opening presents, this morning was spent preparing and cooking Christmas lunch. For 8 people.
It wasn't too bad at the start. I peeled and cut the potatoes, parsnips, beans, broccoli, and spouts, and put the turkey and ...
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I'm back in Sevenoaks now - my cunning plan to come back on friday was scuppered by work - by 5pm the fog had taken hold, and i thought it best if i stayed in Cheltenham that evening. So i went round to Sainsburys and bought the supplies for Christmas lunch - did i mention i was cooking for 8 people?
So i'm back in Kent now - went delivering cards yesterday, saw some friends i hadn't seen for ages and was invited in for tea, which was rather lovely. I should meet up with friends more often ;) my problem is ...
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I'm off to Kent now to spend Christmas with my Dad and my Gran. I realise that leaving at 5pm on the Friday before Christmas weekend isn't really ideal - I've spent today catching up on the work that was due before Christmas that I should have done last week. Slightly irritating thing is that it's apparently now not needed until the first or second week of January - still, I wasn't to know that.
Gah! Why is it that Windows Unison only ever fails in the middle of a sync when I'm in a hurry ...
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To say this this is interesting perhaps says more about my current state of mind than the value of the quote, but I thought I'd share this little gem about the taxation of websites:
The cost of a web site is analogous to that of a shop window. The cost of constructing the window is capital; the cost of changing the display from time to time is revenue.
(From: hmrc.gov.uk)
Also, computer software is classed as revenue expenditure if it has a life expectancy of under two years, otherwise it is capital cost. And according to the ...
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Those of you who are employed by someone else will probably not know that online self assessment tax returns have to be in by the 30th of December.
I, however, did know - they wrote to me in April and told me. Today is the 21st of December, and that means that I have 8 days left in which to submit my tax return.
It's not that I forgot, it's just that I have been incredibly efficient at putting it off. It's not that numbers scare me, it's just that these numbers have consequences. And that I ...
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