trigger_andy

You better start buying stocks in KY cos we're away to get the shafting of a generation! If you think the SE bitching is ramping up just wait till you see the vast tax increases accross the board for PAYE and SE. We're gonna be paying for this for the next 15 years or at least till the next earth shattering reason.

Ah ok.

Well thats true. There is always someone we can rant with. I dont wanna know about the second bit. The less I know the better.

It sure is frustrating. But if we cant moan here where can we?

It really is. SE, PAYE, we're all screwed really. Im selling off junk left right and centre to keep my head above water. Its amazing what crap you accumulate, but its more amazing how much less it sells for than you bought it, even second hand ( I rarely buy new). And amazing how fast it vanishes . Some might think being PAYE its ok for them, well its just as shit. For many PAYE its not massively different than being SE. You become your own brand, you are only as good as your last job, which I fucked up both of, the very last put me in the official $1,000,000 club. Yes, my fuck up cost well in excess of a million dollars. To then go off on the sick with surgery was terrible timing. Nearly 4 months later Im trying to get back in the game and Ive been given a job that means I'll be sucking a dummy the whole time. Pulling an Old Well and getting covered head to toe in Crude and other shit for 12-16 hours a day. Full PPE and if there is H2S then its 10x worse. LSA and we'll look like WW1 Divers. I do my own Tax return here and in Norway. Like others Im shite at both. Im in the grey zone between SE and PAYE but without the perks of either. But some have said I should keep my mouth shut, maybe I should. But fuck them. Not my style.

Les's link it was twenty quid for the tools. Surely its not eighty for the strapping?

An Avant with a Log Grab is really the dogs danglies. Such precision for placing logs right up to the band to get the full 4.8m cut. Wish I owned one now. But I get weekends use.

Ah ok. Yeh the N.E Of Scotland is a a large area.

Its caught a lot of us with our pants down-. Having not worked since December due to surgery Ive eaten through 3 months worth of saving thinking at the other end I'll be right back to it bringing home the bacon. Well this Covids but a huge dent in that idea.

I think they got all their advice out of a kinder egg, but even those basic guidelines are in there.

Aye, thats true. That is of course if you can assess it still.

I get that. All my family and friends who are self employed have 3 months held back for emergencies. Any expansion of their businesses can only go ahead when they have the funds to do so, without dipping into that cash. If they do have to dip in its the first thing that gets topped back up with. To them its basic business acumen. But what would I know, eh?

Till they start to shrink. But I guess by then the worst of the movement will have been stopped?

Interesting. Why did you find that better than tightening ratchet straps every now and then?

Not that strange that the Oil Capital of Europe is at the epicenter of Scotland is it?

I cant believe how cheapo they are! ' I use these off-shore. Slightly more expensive but will stop a lot more movement, but I guess no use for Slabs etc as they will come lose when they start to shrink. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Band-it-Bantam-Metal-Banding-Hand-Tool-Ratchet-Gun/254551926955?hash=item3b447a28ab:g:HNgAAOSwoZZefMXY

He thought he had the change to take on the Big Man and win so he snatched it.

I think he's just pointing out the efficiency of the Germans. Although yes, it does come across as a bit crass.

Not gonna go there.

Geeez, I hope you're wrong. I know you also hope you're wrong. Personally I cant see us getting into triple figures but we'll just have to wait and see. One thing's for sure is this is not going away any time soon and the lock-down will surely intensify. Its almost impossible to get a flight back into the UK now. Not a bad thing I guess? Will be very interesting to see where we are in 4 weeks time.

I seriously dont understand how anyone who is self employed, and as such running a business does not have a money held back for emergencies? We're only 2 weeks into this yet it seems like folk are already on their knees. Whats their plan if they break a leg? Or anything that puts them outta work for 6-12 weeks?

Ive said before that this will be used to permanently increase tax and we'll welcome it with open arms, like when VAT was dropped to 15% from 17.5% and then raised to 20% and we never batted an eyelid. Speaking with my brother a few weeks ago I said its only a matter of time before Doctors have to start playing god and selection who gets ventilators or even beds and the old folk will lose out (rightly or wrongly) and he said it would never happen, it will be first come first served as all life is equal. Well its almost daily now we're seeing reports that this is now either the case or we're getting warned its gonna be the care real soon. And I dont know how to feel about that to be honest? One one hand it makes sense to let the old, who have already enjoyed a long life die in favour of someone younger (Ive mentioned the sacrifice the old folk in Japan made at Fukushima earlier for that very reason) On the other hand I cant help feeling we're being massively played here.

Definitely worth a watch.

You're only as old as the woman you feel.

Maybe an old fiddle is fine, but all three? You'd have to build an old folks home before you started any other project. I think the first lass has legs, so no carrying required! If you're planning on dragging her do so by the hair and not the feet, they full up with sand otherwise. And I think she's only 5'.1 so maybe lighter than you where expecting?