Yogi, it's still sunny here  

El, ta muchly for the cake. Dunno what I will do for later though  

 

 

Love the cake, El.

Moonie, I hope you saved me a slice?

*passes Yogi large slice* 

But of course 

Thank you, it looks delicious.

Most welcome
How has your day gone Yogi?

Weather has been dire here and more overnight too 

Weather wasn't great, we had rain from noon onwards.

My day was okay though, and not too busy.

How was your day?

Not busy is good Yogi

My day was okay fankoo

Off to bed now, goodnight and sweet dreams, Moonie and Ros

Night owl hug for Summer.

Nite nite Yogi, sleep well and have sweet dreams  

Good morning everyone.

 

Weather is dry and bright, with an autumnal chill.

 

I've got ironing and housework to catch up with.

 

Have a good day everyone.

Good morning everyone

 

Rained overnight here but now dry.

 

Yogi, I hope your housework goes well

 

Should the game of bridge be classified as a sport -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34320201

and if so why not chess.

Shooting is classified as a sport and although television treats snooker and darts as sports they don't seem to qualify for sporting grants.

Good morning everyone, quite windy here with great towering banks of grey and white clouds all blowing slowly in from the sea.  The wind is making it a little colder and has blown down loads of stuff from the big conifers all over the driveway I swept just a few days ago.

 

I hope all goes well with that huge job EL, do you work on it exclusively once you have the files?

 

Good luck with the housework and ironing Yogi, it's so nice once it's all done.

 

Enjoy your day everyone

Good morning all I hope you eaxh slept well

Ooh moonie, I hope you found some great owls on your extra long search

Lovely to hear that Keira has a new stylist

Did you all watch downtown on Sunday? I'm thrilled it's back

I'm making Xmas cards this morning

Thanks squiggle. Although I will be spending much of my time on the huge job I do have other clients to deal with. They are generally very small ones. I did some of the slightly larger ones over the last couple of months so that I wouldn't be dealing with those at the same time as the huge one. There are a couple which I will need to do over the next month or so but I'll fit them in when I can.

 

On the huge client I was given a pen drive with the accounting data on (nearly 1 gig of data ). Due to the strange accounting system they use, I have to use my old computer to access the data. I then create various spreadsheets and pdf reports and transfer them on to my newer computer to work on and to print out where necessary. I do that as I don't want to use the old computer more than I have to as it's old and slow in comparison. Also it was set up for the old printer which broke and I no longer use it for internet use (Windows XP no longer supported and lapsed antiviral s/w). That's why I create pdf files for the reports.

 

2014/15 data installed - √

Accounts program working - √

Trial balance balances and pdf report created - √

Nominal ledger spreadsheet files created, one for balance sheet accounts, one for profit and loss accounts - √

Above report and spreasheet files copied over to newer computer and checked working properly - √

 

That is the simple part and doesn't take long but was the first thing I did to ensure that it was working. The rest will take considerably longer (and I'm not going to start listing all the work I do)

 

 

Summer, I'm glad you like Downton Abbey but it's not something I watch as I do not like the scriptwriter.

 

I hope your christmas card making goes well. What's your theme this year?

 

On the Today program on radio 4 this morning they had a short clip of jingles from various ITV channels over the years for people to see if they could identify which channel.

 

An Ian Crossman tweeted the BBC with the correct answers which you can see on his account:

https://twitter.com/IMCrossman

 

 Everyone 
Hoping you all well. I havent been around lately as busy with family stuff. 
All well here though. Hope you all having a good day 

Sympathy  

Hi Sweet

Have a look in me owl thread for the latest batch 

I hope your Xmas card making went well 

Afternoon everyone  

The weather is blustery with occasional rain but is currently sunny  

Hope you are all having a better day weather wise

Afternoon all.

 

Weather is still sunny, if a little chilly.

 

Squiggle, it's very satisfying when the housework and ironing are all done.

 

El, I only got three of those jingles - Granada, LWT and Anglia. 

 

Moonie, thanks for the sympathy.

 

Skylark, good to see you here and glad all is well.

 

Summer, what is your Christmas card theme this year?

 

Most welcome Yogi

Skylark, I'm glad all is well with you

 

 

4 phone calls in last week with recorded message about claiming back bank charges (I mentioned it a few days ago). Now found out that there are 2 companies whose phone numbers are in different places in South Wales but have the same address in Swansea. Also discovered that there is a common director, also a shareholder, in the two companies. The only options on the call are 5 to speak to an advisor and 9 if I've already made a claim with no option to be removed from their database. I am of course registered with TPS.

 

I've therefore sent a report to the Information Commissioner with the information I have found in case they decide to do something about it. The companies seem to be in breach of the data protection law as they clearly have shared a database rather than ringing randomly and where did they get the database, and of course it's a breach of TPS. Looking at the likes of whocallsme I see that others have had similar calls recently and have made reports to the Information Commissioner. So may be the ICO will do something about it.

 

I have of course barred the two phone numbers.

 

PB day tomorrow, so I won't be around until evening.

Goodnight and sweet dreams everyone. Night owl hugs.

night yogi enjoy PB -she sounds a real star  summer if you pop in

Good morning everyone

 

At present there's plenty of blue sky here, but it's forecast to cloud over.

 

Yogi, I hope you have a great day with PB

 

News today that for the time being it's legal to have public performances of Happy Birthday without it breaching copyright:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34332853

 

Good morning everyone, a hint of blue sky but not much, bit of a gloomy morning.

 

Woo hoo a PB day - what is she into now Yogi?  Has she gone back to Peppa Pig or moved on to something else?

 

Enjoy your day everyone

I have to have profesional indmnity insurance and was contacted at the end of last year by a company in Bristol. As I had already renewed the insurance I wasn't interested even though they were cheaper. They've just sent me an email ahead of my renewal date for the next year offering premiums which could be a lot less than what I pay.

Sounds good doesn't it.

But as I'm a chartered accountant I have to insure with companies which are on the ICAEW's list of approved participating insurers. So I've just had a look at the list only to find that there's no mention of the company which contacted ne.

So I'm not switching to them. I have to complete a return to ICAEW every year and one of the questions is to give the name and address of the insurer.

Any chartered accountant who has switched to them without checking is likely to find themselves in very serious trouble with the ICAEW.

 

Good afternoon sorry I didn't get back on y'day, we were short staffed at work and the evening was consumed with crafting. My theme this year is Christmas stockings I'm even making a special one for bramble

Yogi I hope you have a wonderful PB day today :-)

Summer, I hope Bramble likes your Christmas stockings card

She laid on me while I was gluing El

A new bridge in Belfast has set a new world record:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-n...ern-ireland-34301870

 

It was made out of around 70,000 Meccano pieces and was strong enough for someone to be able to walk across it.

Evening all.

 

She's into Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom atm. 

We had a lovely day together.

Popping in to say goodnight
Yogi, I hope you had a lovely PB day

El, that's an impressive construction indeed! I loved meccano as a kid

I did thanks, Summer. I hope your day was good too.

 

Goodnight and sweet dreams everyone.

Night owl hug for Ros.