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Retired Climber

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  1. I don't think @Billhook gets out much if he doesn't know what temporary traffic lights look like.
  2. If you think facts can ruin a good made up story you are on the wrong forum.
  3. They usually ask for DOB when signing up for an account under the pretence that they can use it to verify its you if you get locked out. I've never given them my correct date of birth. Just give them a random date, and make a note of it in case they ask for it in the future. Only an idiot gives Google, Facebook, or just about any other such organisation their DOB unless absolutely necessary.
  4. For what service?
  5. It's not that anyone is being negative, just realistic. If you don't have any staff on the books, you don't have a business; you have a group of people who work together to make a living. If you are in charge (tell them what to do, and when to do it), they are not legitimately self employed and sooner or later that is going to bit you on the arse. Just because you all agree they are all self employed, doesn't mean they are. Anyway, I agree with much of the above. Your equipment and any stock is obviously worth money, but your name and reputation are only possibly of worth to the self employed guys you currently work with. Anyone else would see the going concern as more of a liability than an asset.
  6. Makes it a bit tricky everyone being self employed. Are they actually self employed, based on HMRC's definitions? If not, nobody is going to want to touch the business as a going concern. Have you spoken to your self employed guys about your plans? Is there no possibility that they might want to buy the business from you? That's how I got rid of mine; sold it to an employee.
  7. How many full time employees do you have?
  8. It's going to fall over sooner or later. What's the ground like? If it's prone to waterlogging that's when I reckon it will go over, when the grounds soaked.
  9. I'd allow it to get to just below desired height before trimming, if the main stems are heading straight up in the air.
  10. Whoosh
  11. As it's bullpup it looks more SA80 than sub machine gun.
  12. Seems a bit unnecessary to reply to this now. Agree with above, and above, and above.
  13. If he found it in a river I wouldn't have thought he'd have a certificate of deactivation, or the knowledge to know if it had been properly deactivated. For all we know, he knows nothing about guns and it's a toy. Equally, it may be real, loaded, and an accident waiting to happen. Anyway, this is way off topic and we are simply speculating on a situation we know nothing about. If it were me, I wouldn't admit to having it unless I was 100% sure of my facts. Nothing more, nothing less.
  14. I wouldn't be putting proof of ownership of a section 5 firearm on the forum if I had one.
  15. That's my guess. Reads like a link drop by a very cheap copywriter to me.
  16. Haha, you need a better copywriter.
  17. Are you not over - reacting a bit? You live in a country in which pretty much anyone can start their own business, regardless of class, education or ability, and can try to make a go of it, largely unimpeded. There are very few hoops to jump through, and you are pretty much left to get on with it. Anyone who is prepared to graft a bit can easily go out with a few basic tools and earn more than their accountant or bank manager. I don't see that as a bad system.
  18. If you hold information about people, you are a data controller. As such, you need to register and have systems in place to make sure the data is secure and only used for lawful purposes. The alternative is to let businesses do whatever they like with our data, with no regulation.
  19. Yep, pretty much all businesses should be registered with the ICO. I think there might be a questionnaire on their website to see if you need to register
  20. Brings to mind the scene in Only Fools and Horses in which Trigger declares "I've been eating British beef all my life. Never done me any harm."
  21. Haha. A man of few words, most of them wrong.
  22. An SEO who thinks dropping a link on a forum is going to help, may not have done much research in the last 10 years.
  23. I love a bit of hedge cutting, but you have to do it for the right type of clients. Sod having to tame 100m of conifer hedge. Give me a nice formal garden in which I can spend the day tidying everything up and 'rounding over' some nice tight yews, privets, box and viburnum and I'm happy as Larry. 40 or 50 quid an hour and all you need is an HS 82 and a step ladder. I still do some of this type of stuff now, just because it's nice to get out doing something.
  24. This is the arbtalk we all know and love. I had throwing knives when I was younger. Never got the hang of it. I could hit a target pretty reliably after a few tries, but only ever at that range and angle. In my defence, when I was young there was no internet, so I couldn't watch YouTube to see how it's done. Trial and error is a slow process when you had 3 knives, and your mate accidentally chucked one of them in the river.
  25. Don't feel too bad; I'm a professional writer and I had to look it up.

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