Wally and Lav are still not sure about the snow and are wondering where the grass went.
Status:
Feeling better today. Talking stuff through with Fi yesterday and with my sister today helped.
Filed my self-assessment tax return today. Wasn’t putting it off for any reason other than just another thing on the list and I completed it in 10 minutes. I’ve done so little self-employment since the CFS hit that I’d only earned £200 in that tax year, which is the sort of number HMRC just aren’t interested in. (Amusingly my PAYE employment had undertaxed me by £1.80 so I did have tax to manually pay this year. Some numbers they are very interested in.)
In the old days freelance work was about 2/5th of my income and now it’s basically nothing, but I think I’ll stay registered. While I don’t really know what’s going to happen with my employment status over the next few years, I suspect freelance bits and bobs will probably be on the cards.
Overnight listening:
- In Our Time: Arianism - not, as I thought for a while, aryanism, but the early Christian sect that the Goths converted to before being told it wasn’t the correct Christian sect anymore and they were all heretics now. Early Christianity is turning out to be really fascinating.
Reading:
- Confucius vs Qin Shi Huang
- Why I left Substack
- It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons - if you’ve been tricked into updating your Mac to the most recent operating system this might explain why you’re struggling to use the menus.