Lax

I have been very lax indeed about updating this blog for the last week or more. A new leaf shall be turned, and I’ll catch up on June, without relying on frontpage fury posts. This is my mid-year resolution. I have also been lax about getting a haircut and doing my accounts, neither of which […]

Adult eyes

The GF is reading Middlemarch and I started reading it too. I last read it when I was quite young, I think around 12 or 13, and I remember really not enjoying it. Of course I was too young, but I remember being irritated by Dorothea’s foolishness early in the book and the horror and […]

FOMO

I have just received an email from HMRC, subject line: ‘Join the trend of submitting your SA return earlier this year’. Dear customer, We’ve seen a growing trend in customers submitting their Self Assessment returns early. In the last five years the number of customers choosing to file their return on the first day of […]