Man, thats OK, then. I had images of an inspection team sitting on the viewing shelf watching you poo.

Whats a "viewing shelf"?

cheers duffman.

A couple of weeks ago I was out in Denny on business and I went lookign for CV and coudn't find it. I took the road past Strathcarron Hospice and drove for ages but I don't know if I was in the right area. Any help? I might take a drive out that way tomorrow.

Stone Roses – Adored

Oasis – Cigarettes & Alcohol
Yello – The Race

I'm an accountant. In Scotland though so not miuch good to you. Here's some free info though:

If you're self-employed on a sole trader basis (which is how it sounds), you need to notify the tax office straight away as you've probably already passed the deadline date. You'll get a £50 fine which they MAY enforce. IME they seldom do.

You're probably not going to have any tax to pay until January 2011 but you should be making provision already. As said above, premium bonds is a good idea but so is a separaste bank account.

If you don't fancy using accounting software get a spreadsheet template which records your income and outgoings.

Keep a separate bank account for all business transactions. Doesn't strictly need to be a business account as long as it is kept separate.

Yes, you should get an accountant and I'd do it now. Make sure you pick one who (a) comes recommended, and (b) works on a fixed price basis. You should expect to pay anywhere between £400 and £1,000 p.a. depending on what you need. Remember an accountant is an expert so use them as such. The money you spend on them should be for business advice and tax planning etc not sorting thru bags of petrol receipts.

Disclaimer: I only deal with ltd co contractors now so some of the above might be outdated.

27 books in the new testament

The thing is: Nobody really gives a sh*t about MTB (except us). Its a minority sport so mainstream TV won't give it a minute's thought never mind a minute's air time.

John Barrowman. Yes I know you're gay and appear in musicals but do you have to sing and mince about every time you appear on the telly.

I got a canon EOS 450D. My first SLR and I love it. Warehouse Express dotcom have them for about £450 with a lens kit.

Cafe Andaluz in George St does some damn fine Tapas

WordClass that 7. Beans are in tomato sauce!

pickled onion crisps are 2: crisps are made of potato which is a vegetable. And onion is also a vegetable.

More seriously though: why is 2 portions of the same veg/fruit not as good as 2 portions of different veg/fruit

We hired a 26" Beinn for my lad at Glentress. Had the good sus and disc brakes etc. He loved it and I was going to get him one for Xmas until I discovered it was a £600 bike!

I got a pair of plastic football boots from my godmother for my first birthday. Nit for wearing but a sort of ornament. I still have them and they are treasured.

The Manic Street Preachers wrote a song about Kevin Carter didn't they?

Got to be the most powerful image I have ever seen. I showed a girl in the office it about half an hour ago and she hasn't come out of the toilet since.

cheers for that marsdenman.

There is a photograph – and I don't know who took it – which is extremely powerful: Its a picture of a starving baby in (I think Cambodia) and there's a vulture watching her from about 10 yds away. I've only seen it once and it affected me terribly. The photogrpaher apparently gave up war photography right after he took it. Sorry I can't be more specific and please nobody post it but for the OP its worth trying to find.

Grassmarket every time for me. Keep away from George Street IMHO as its full of tossers drinking £5.00 pints of Peroni.

"After 6 months this Nano will be obsolete"

Nice pair of…

organic355,

yip i've been to Dundee. I'm not in the habit of of voicing uninformed opinion. I confess I haven't been down every street but the bits Ive been to have been well rough. My wife got her handbag nicked in the town centre and I got myself a kicking when I was up at a football match a couple of years back.

But if you like I'll change my post to:

Dundee (except the nice bits which are undeniably overwhelmed by the rough bits)

Do you say warrantee like you spell it? 😀

mrmichalewright, that cottage at the end of the loch looks like a decent place to lay your hat.

Aristotle, I think I stayed there ages back. Is it still 4 farmhouses and a phonebox? It was rotten weather when we were there which made it pretty bleak but you could see it would be cracking in the right weather.

Hats off to you son. After all the doom and gloom – depression posts etc – its nice to hear soome good news. Its my birthday today so I;m saying tara to my 38th year which by all accounts was a stinker and welcoming in the 39th with a smile and a positive attitude. :-)At least I will after the funeral I'm going to this pm. 🙁

Scotland is a beautiful place (outside the towns mostly) but, like everywhere else, there's some rough too:

Ardrossan
Bathgate
Methil
Glenrothes
Cumbernauld
Dundee
Cowdenbeath
Lochgelly
Livingston
etc

Arthur Montford??

Bin Laden?

Well done flyingmonkeycorps. Nice to see a bit of moral fibre.

I was in business with someone and we had a falling out. There were some debts in the business – about £30k when we wound it up and as it was a partnership the debt became joint and several. We agreed that we would each pay half. My partner then went into sequestration and left me holding the baby. The £30k was added to his considerable personal debt and was written off. I had to pay the J&S debt. A couple of years later, I hear an aunt ahs died and left him a fortune and nobody gets a bit of it. It makes me f*cking rage when I think about it.

Keep the wheels of your industry turning eh Paul mc?

The OP has a duty of care to himself. If it's dark be more careful. You might fall.

Like the look of that alfa chopperT.

Anybody remember the bbc2 prog SnubTV? A lot of the bands mentioned on this thread were on it.

I'm sure I remember them surfing along princes st in Edinburgh on the top of their tour van. But I may have imagined that.

Birdland that is. Not hipsway.

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husker du
mega city
kingmaker
ride

was it curve that had "doppelgänger" ?

My oldest lad got bullied hwne he started high school this year. It was fairly low-level – intimidation and threats – but it did escalate to physical once. To say my lad was terrified is understating it. We went to the school and to be fair they did deal with it. After a couple of weeks, the bully decided to try his hand again. In the meantime my lad had been getting boxing lessons and he was a bit more confident in himself. When the bully came at him he just knocked his hand away and made as if to punch him but stopped just short of throwing the punch. It did the trick to the extent that the bully is now trying to ingratiate himself with my lad. It seems to me that violence (or in our case, the possibility of violence) is how to deal with bullies.

Muvi – I think that was it. Is it small and black?

I'm feeling a bit gloomy as well. Hardly surprising as I've had the annis horribilis that even the queen wouldn't have traded for: five funerals (all close friends or family); £25k loss on selling a house; almost made bankrupt by tax office; three car crashes; business problems. Start to feel a bit sorry for myself then I remember I've got a wife and 3 kids who love me and a nice house in a nice area and I can get out and ride my bike or walk my dogs whenever I want almost.

Might try that St John Wors anyway!