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Arthur Marshall

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  1. VAT almost certainly irrelevant wuth a small frader, the turnover isn't high enough and usually the punter buys the materials, so just pays for labour. When the VATman got merged with the Taxman they got a bit less fearsome.
  2. Many, many years ago as a self employed person I can remember having to send accounts in to the Tax Office with my Return. When that ended is lost in the mists of time, but your Return has to be pretty weird before the IR will ask to see accounts, especially as there's probably only one person in every four offices who could understand them. Now they just want figures for turnover, expenses (not itemised) and profit. And nobody looks at 95% of tax returns anyway. That's what "Self Assessment" means.
  3. I don't think they did. I think they just lost the cheque and thought they'd paid it in. If they'd decided to accept my word they'd have let me know, especially in the light of the rather stonking letter that went with the cheque. Even if they had, they should in the interests of security, let me know they had torn up the cheque. But they've done nothing. They must have recieved the letter because I demanded they remove my details from their database, and I no longer get texts telling me when they are delivering. They'll probably find the cheque in another six months and try to pay it in, when the bank will refuse it until they've checked with me.
  4. That's where my coal boat hassle started, no receipt. When I gave up arguing and sent a further cheque (which arguably I shouldn't have done) I requested a receipt by return of post. I never got one, and as far as I can tell they've not cashed the cheque, either. Canal businesses tend to be a bit of a shambles.
  5. Sound a bit like my bucket of grief with the fuel boat mob, which was all down to lousy accounting and crap communication. Some of these canal firms are so inefficient it's a wonder they stay in business, though it's odd that every mistake they make means you get overcharged, never, ever, under!
  6. Thanks, I thought it must be something like that. I remember the days I used, when boating with no internet on the tub, to just sit on a wall outside someone's house and pick up my email...
  7. The Kobo connrcted to the house wifi fine until this week. Now it wants the password, but ignores it and won't connect. Apparently Kobo use a very cheap and nasty wifi chip, and it's all based on a very old android version. It says it wants a WPA/WPA2 password - I assume this is the one everything else (eg Sky box) uses to connect? I changed a router setting from WPA2 to WPA/WPA2 and now it works. The connection is better on the tablet too. If someone out there can tell me why I'd be grateful! I was an early adopter of all things computerised, internetty and then webby, but have now been well left behind.
  8. Some do. My old Lenovo tavlet did but an upgrade stopped that working. I now make sure the wifi is off when not in use and always turn the location off, as that uses loads of power. I use a widget on the home screen to turn the wifi off.
  9. Excellent. Cables are weirdly important. I've got a Kobo reader that will charge ok with two cables but won't connect to the computer with either of them, but will with a third. And its wifi will connect via my phone hot-spot but not with the house WiFi. These things are designed with built in irritations.
  10. If it's absolutely stone dead, it won't make a noise or show 0% because there's no power to do it. Good luck.
  11. If the battery is completely flat, it may take a while on charge before it even shows it's charging, presumably because there isn't enough power to run the gubbins that lets it know the battery is flat. And if it's charging from a 12v car charger, it's not getting much current anyway.
  12. Check there's no muck in the charging port, blow into it and maybe probe carefully with a pin. Try other cables. Found this online (nb says volum up button, not volume down) .: If you can’t find any problem on the charger, cable, and port, you can try this method. Although this method seems weird, but many users have reported that this method worked for them. Disconnect the charger from the Samsung tablet. Hold the power button and the volume up button for 30 seconds. Keep holding buttons while plugging in charger. Continue to hold buttons for another 30 seconds. Release power button only and keep volume button pressed still.
  13. Has anyone in all history ever successfully sued a surveyor?
  14. Very true. Most have stopped round here, too. I packed in regular pub work when the pandemic shut down happened, and even then a lot of the time we were playing to half empty pubs apart from a few of the ones in a real Irish community. They just had a brewery entertainments fund which they had to spend. Now, it's open mic nights or sessions which don't cost the pub money. And I must admit, if I go for a pint with a friend, I don't want to have to shout over a band playing stuff I don't particularly like. I never understood why landlords thought it brought people in - mostly in my opinion it does the opposite.
  15. Which is why big bands don't play pubs. The duo I play with gets £180 for pubs. You obviously limit the fee to the max you think a venue can pay. I did play for years with a zydeco band in pubs, which was fun but counted as a hobby not a business, although the financial loss looked good on tax returns. It broke up as we just couldn't afford to keep doing it and still eat.
  16. We did a house gig for a surgeon once who complained about being charge £500. I said, "Five people , four hours work here, over an hour travelling time each, that's 25 hours not counting rehearsal time, petrol, insurance and instrument costs. What would you charge for that?"
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  18. Seemed plain enough to me. No need to be rude. PS "cant" and "can't" are different words. Please write correctly.
  19. I do like demobilisation. I wonder if they mobilised the construction site in the first place, though I suppose that would the second place, as they'd have mobilised it from the first place, in the first place, to Tod, which would then be the second place. I wonder though how you can demobilise a site, unless you just take the wheels off. Not that it matters. Happy St Pat's Day everyone, I'm off to play me fiddle.
  20. One if my favourite runs. Don't moor overnight before Milton, good moorings there and just below Engine Lock. Excellent 2nd hand bookshop in Milton if you're a reader.
  21. I don't think the presenter matters much, they're only reading the script they're given, so they're all just actors really. I did the voiceover on a stack of steam railway videos some years ago, and the fact I didn't know what I was talking about was irrelevant*. Narration is just script and timing. *ETA well, I presume it was. At least, they kept paying me to do another one!
  22. OK, fair enough. At least those who had the capacity to pay attention learnt that 25% of boat owners live on their boats, that the original navvies didn't have electric light and that nine year old kids should play with explosives. Dead educational, this telly.
  23. You mean a programme about canals is aimed at everyone who isn't interested in canals? Odd. I may well not watch next week's one on railways, even though I must be the intended audience, as I'm not interested in them. It's lucky for David Attenborough that so few people are interested in animals, as obviously his programmes aren't aimed at anyone who is...
  24. And didn't want to spend any money on research, or the script, or the presenter, or the director... you really think easy watching has to be badly written, badly narrated tosh aimed at people you hope have switched their brains right off? It was Channel 5, I suppose, so maybe you're right. But I suspect no other channel would touch it with, well, a bargepole.
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