Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

iB1

michaels wrote: »

Thinking on street lights, we have 16 down-lighters in half our new kitchen - previously that would have been 800w now with LED bulbs it is 50w - there have got to be some big savings still to be made in lighting.

How do you find the lighting on the LEDs?

I just finished my new kitchen an replaced the halogen GU10s with CFL GU10s, which are 9W each, making 36W in total, which is nice.

I tested some LED bulbs but found their white was too "ghostly blue" for my liking. There were some LED bulbs that claimed to be warm white, but they were £17 each :eek: so I didn't get those ones.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Malfunctioning keys in this house are usually caused by crumbs getting into the keyboard and under the keys. Have you been eating while typing?

Just shook it and blew on it a few times....there is all sort of ick under there.......yuck......HUGE quanities of ca hair and fluff......

sss555s

lostinrates wrote: »

Just shook it and blew on it a few times....there is all sort of ick under there.......yuck......HUGE quanities of ca hair and fluff......

If it was me, I'm afraid I'd have to dismantle it and clean it properly :A

sss555s

lostinrates wrote: »

I've been looking a my books and a really need an accounan now....I definiely broke even firs year rading and hink I migh have made a small profit ....I'm doing his all elevenh hour and probably more profit to be shown if I had a good accounant.

A good accountant should save you as they will know things you don't.

If your struggling to find one locally or want to compare prices then the business forum is quite good. :beer:

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

http://www.skbauctions.co.uk/auction-lot-details.php?id=1906080&search=current&page=2

I went out and missed it.

Anyone know what it went for / if it sold?

tomterm8

michaels wrote: »

Surely the better the accountant the less profit?!

Not for small businesses, not necessarily.

If you want to get a mortgage, or loans, you need to show a certain amount of profit. Likewise, if you want to sell the business in a few years time.

PasturesNew

I make so little money that the cost of an accountant would be more than any money they could "find" for me... so I do it myself. No fiddles, just figures and facts. Small fry.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

Now the question is do we punt on or go for another lunch...?

Punt half.
Feed with half.

fc123

Davesnave wrote: »

We can see the faint glow from a small town 10 miles away, and there's another where Exeter is, though that might be Crediton too.
It's not enough to blot out the Milky Way, but I'd prefer not to have any glow.

No street lamps here. A few in the village, but I don't think there'd be much complaint if they went out at midnight. Not much moves here after that, until around 6am.

The glowing sky is the bit I don't like about being back in London.......OMG to have the sea sky view back would make a very ahhpy FC...at night the view was amazing.

lostinrates wrote: »

I've been looking a my books and a really need an accounan now....I definiely broke even firs year rading and hink I migh have made a small profit ....I'm doing his all elevenh hour and probably more profit to be shown if I had a good accounant.


afer the ''u'' sicky ness on the compuer my 'T' is now sticky...:) I must really pound the keyboard o cause so much damage

I have a good one of you want his details and not too pricey. He is in Wanstead. He does millionaires and not-millionaires and treats us all same ....well...except the fee I guess.

I was recommended to him by my brother and was in the mega p 000 when I first went to see him. He did me a deal based on what I could afford ...super cheap.....and I stayed..and he has re-couped the 'favour' fee many times over since.
I remember him saying, in an E End accent ;'man, you are in a hole....can you dig yourselves out of it?'' and I replied that I didn't know but was going to give it a go.

We agreed 12 months. Every time I speak to him now he says stuff like 'Mate, can't believe you guys dug yourselves out of such a big hole''.......I do love an accountant that calls me mate.:)

He is going to have kittens over this years figures but he knows as we do that it's all a giant Zig Zag in my game. He's a cool guy to have on our side.

lostinrates wrote: »

Suppose so.....more money!

I need to think in terms of future, and possibly borrowing in the future for business expansion and also investment and building for what I already have. If I borrowed for building now I could be trading more than three fold what I am now, and permanantly employing (local job creation. )

Oh ....I sympathise LIR as we have been there so many times.
The demand is there so the future income is too.....like a light..... BUT....you need to spend X to enable Y and get the dam income coming in. So, in the dead of night, one thinks....''well, if I could get hold of x, then we can enable y and everything will be dandy''.
On paper it's true..it would work out. But have you got the nerve? It's so hard to know what to do. Caution could be wise but then nothing happens or taking the risk? The risk gives you sleepless nights but does pay off so the future of the land is secured for your life time.


I can share a mini secret with you all now as we have an ''investor'' interested. The teeny tiny snag is that there are so many strings and these aren't strings related to our ability or work ethic. Nope, the strings are just very emotional so I am beating myself up about how I feel about it all. I just want to run and hide back down in the sludge in the pond again.

I never thought I would feel this way. I am ashamed at my lack of materialism too.....why didn't he come to us when were 30 somethings?

I have actually been thinking PN type comments in my head over it as she tends to say things as they are. PN would say, if I told her, things like 'f*ing do it, take it, do the 3 years (probably bending over really low most of the time) and cash the cheque. OH says the same thing....but it's all so dam tricky...I am just so not a bending over type of person and I am gutted as I din't realise until the offer appeared.

lostinrates

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fc123 wrote: »

3 years

Do you reckon, with the run of success, three years would be about right before you fancy a new creative challenge? You've been doing what you do so amazingly well, but at some point you might want to do something else and it seems if you can get a head start in PR and finance to take a different creative turn without the discomfort you've had in the past it could be a good thing.


Your accountant sounds great. But the location is just no go for us. Needs to be near us here..would have said ''or City proximity'' up until a few weeks ago...but now time is just under the extreme pressure it was before London.



Oh, we have dates.....dh should be back from Brussels ''some time before July''.