Goodnight and sweet dreams, Summer.

Off to bed! Goodnight and sweet dreams Ros.

night lovely  yogi and summer

Good morning everyone

Extremely thick grey clouds here to the extent that my very local weather site is showing 0% solar. No sign of any snow or rain overnight. The snow band is over the Cotswolds as I suspected.

As I guess you already know, Call the Midwife is back this evening with the continuation of the thalidomide story from the final episode of the last series (not the Christmas special).

I hope Moonie is able to return very soon

Good morning, cold & clear here again. There was a very pretty sunrise

el, I dislike those grey days, I hope it clears soon for you 

I wish I could watch call the midwife from the beginning, I've checked the iplayer and the early series aren't on there 

Summer, you can get DVDs of the earlier series of Call the Midwife. You can also watch them online on Amazon and the first two series are free if you happen to have an Amazon Prime membership.

It's fractionally brighter here now with a solar reading of 15%.

Good morning everyone, heavy cloud cover here too EL, grey wall to wall.

I love Call The Midwife but I have to say that I am not looking forward to the continuation of the thalidomide story.  I am old enough to remember the tragedies of the time, at a time when I was a young woman and it still fills me with horror.

Moonie I hope you are feeling a little better today and will be back with us soon

Enjoy your day everyone

Good morning everyone.

We still have some snow - enough to build a snowman, if I were so inclined.

 Nice swan pics, Fluffs. Let's hope they encourage Moonie to return. 

I hope you're feeling better, Moonie.

I love Call The Midwife and am looking forward to its return, but I understand why you find the thalidomide storyline upsetting, Squiggle.

El, I hope your grey day brightens up.

Have a good day, everyone.

Morning, best wishes to everyone. Yesterday's snow remains at 2 inches. Not going anywhere fast as the temperature remains at zero degrees.

Afternoon Buddies 

Just popping in to say "hello" 

No more migraines but still feeling under the weather *suspects Man-flu* 

Have a great day peeps

Go on, Yogi, build yourself a snowman, you know you want to
         

Moonie, I hope your "man-flu" clears up quickly

Squiggle, with Call the Midwife being the type of series it is, I would think that the thalidomide storyline will be sensitively handled and that the parents will love and accept the baby by the end of the programme, after the initial shock.

El Loro posted:

Go on, Yogi, build yourself a snowman, you know you want to
         

And pictorial evidence will be required!

Afternoon all I'm cooking spaghetti bolognese with garlic bread, anyone want some..? 

Yogi I hope someone near you has built a snowman  

moonoe im glad your migraine has gone, I hope your man flu doesn't last long have you got enough supplies to keep you going? 

I hope call the midwife isn't too difficult to watch tonight for you all, I do remember hearing stories from back at the time 

El Loro posted:

Go on, Yogi, build yourself a snowman, you know you want to
         

Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:

El Loro posted:

Go on, Yogi, build yourself a snowman, you know you want to
         

And pictorial evidence will be required!

 It was tempting but I resisted. Got this pic from Photobucket instead.

Moonie posted:

Afternoon Buddies 

Just popping in to say "hello" 

No more migraines but still feeling under the weather *suspects Man-flu* 

Have a great day peeps

Good to have you back, Moonie. Take care of that man flu.

~Sweet Pancakes~ posted:

Afternoon all I'm cooking spaghetti bolognese with garlic bread, anyone want some..? 

Yogi I hope someone near you has built a snowman  

moonoe im glad your migraine has gone, I hope your man flu doesn't last long have you got enough supplies to keep you going? 

I hope call the midwife isn't too difficult to watch tonight for you all, I do remember hearing stories from back at the time 

Sounds declicious, Summer.

There are quite a few snowmen in the gardens around here, and we've seen several kids and dads going sledging.

Yogi, that looks to be a happy snowman

Summer, I wonder if snowmen and snowwomen like spaghetti bolognese

I bet those kids have had a wonderful time sledging  

hmm, maybe snow people would like spag Bol once it's cold.. I bet they like sweet mince pies too 

Summer, I should think snow people would like sweet mince pies

Goonight and sweet dreams everyone.

night yogi and summer if you pop in

Good morning and apologies for not saying goodnight, I fell asleep on the sofa watching tv  

i hope everyone slept well, and wish us all a good week  

Good morning everyone

Another extrememly cloudy day here and a bit damp. Tomorrow being forecast to be a sunny (though cold) day.

Yogi, I hope your new antibiotics are working properly
Moonie, I hope you are recovering from your "man flu"

Summer, I hope you didn't miss anything you desperately wanted to see when you fell asleep

Good morning everyone, very grey again.  Summer you must have been tired, thank goodness for catch-up TV

Moonie I hope your man flu clears up quickly, I've found this which may help

Enjoy your day everyone

Lol nothing especially El, I'm recording war & peace but haven't started watching any of it yet. I'm all caught up on The Big Bang Theory though, I've enjoyed some light hearted humour this weekend 

how's your work going? 

Squiggle, I hope your tonic for Moonie helps

Summer, I've been recording War and Peace as well and haven't seen any of it yet. I was watching Endeavour which is on at the same time. The climax of last night's episode was quite something to say the least.
Although I've got quite a lot of work to do over the next couple of weeks it's under control. It looks as if the only client who will miss the deadline is that one I've already mentioned. I've just looked at his trial balance online and see that there's still the same number of unexplained bank transactions as there were when I last looked. So it looks as if the client has given up.

I don't know if you've seen the trailers for the next series of Vera which starts on 31 January. I think these trailers give a false impression of what the series is like as they seem to me as more suitable for some hyperactive action series.

Morning all

We still have quite a lot of snow, even though it feels like there is a thaw. It's foggy too.

I've been painting the doors in the hall and landing. Five done, with one to go and the skirting boards. Got to get it finished before PB comes on Wednesday.

I'm watching last night's War and Peace while I eat some toast, and I've recorded Endeavor for later.

I like Vera, and I know what you mean about the trailers, El.

Yogi, well done on your painting progress

You are unlikely to forget last night's episode of Endeavour once you've seen it as there's never been an episode like it in the history of Endeavour, Morse or Lewis.

I've been working on a client's rent accounts for HMRC for 2014/15. He dropped off the papers over the weekend. He's waiting for his mortgage interest statement for the let property. As it's an interest only mortgage, if he doesn't get the interest statement we could use the payments he's made during the year so he emailed me copies of the bank statements. It looks as if he has a separate bank accounts for the rent so there's not huge amounts of payments going out.

He had included a council tax bill as the property was empty for a period of time. I noticed that it only covered April and May 2015 so will go into the 2015/16 rent accounts. So I thought I'd have a look at the bank statements to see if I could spot any payment for this before April 2015. I didn't find any but it's just as well I looked.

He used a different letting agent for 6 months during 2014/15 from the one I knew about. The agent statement he gave me was for only a few months as it had been empty. But not empty for as long as I thought at first.

I've sent him an email asking for more details about this 6 months and said that HMRC would not have been happy if this had been omitted.

Steve Coogan as Stan Laurel
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35344860

Watching this series of CBB is draining!

Goodnight and sweet dreams everyone.

Hugs for the night owls.

*night owls* I've just got home from a lovely girlie catch up with a friend, we chose a dog friendly pub so that Miss Bramble could join us. The food was lovely and we sat near an open fire, it was very cosy  

El, thank goodness you are hawk eyed when it comes to accounts! Your clients are fortunate to have you.

yogi, lol at CBB- thank goodness for the thread I hope all is going well with the decorating and I'll keep my fingers crossed that you have it finished on target

i hope the rest of you have had a good day. Leaving night owl & get well hugs  

night yogi summer moons velvet

*night owls* 

Nite nite to you all, sleep well and have sweet dreams   

Good morning everyone

Cold and misty here. If the mist lifts it should be a sunny day.

Summer, that client has now come back with the missing info and apologised for his "lack of paperwork skills" to quote him.

Moin! Especially to you El Loro! I hope you get your sunny day.

Do you remember the news articles about three monthly online tax returns? The other night we met our accountant who was out walking his dog. He reckoned he hadn't seen anything official and used the expression, "I don't know where that came from!" Do you reckon it was a myth picked up by the papers?

Good morning everyone.

Still some snow on the ground, despite the thaw.

Summer, that sounds like a nice pub - dog friendly and a cosy fire is my kind of place.

Trying to psyche myself up to finish the painting. I have to get it done before PB comes tomorrow.

Have a good day everyone.