Caz counts it down

cazmanian_minx

A quiet Saturday - £74 spent in Tesco. I'm not 100% certain that Finn has a happy stomach at the moment. I'm going to up his Acid Ease back to the loading dose for a week to see if that helps, if it doesn't then I'm going to need to order him some more sachets from overseas. He could have timed it better, I've got hay to pay for next month as well and when I tried to turn the annexe heating on yesterday, only the upstairs radiator heated up, the rest stayed stone cold. I'm hoping very hard that it's just that it's been off for months and the radiators need rebalancing (Mr Minx bled the system, which didn't help), because if the pump's gone, it's going to be expensive. Fingers crossed.

cazmanian_minx

Tonight I have proofread (amongst other things) 155 pages of porridge-related focus groups. I am cross-eyed and hungry!

JustAboutThere

You've been doing brilliantly. Well done!

cazmanian_minx

57 orders went today - that's more like it Fortunately it was a very quiet day for proofreading. Talking of which, my invoice is in for August and it's £869.65 including the VAT. Not bad, after the VAT and my 25% is put aside, that's about £580 for me.

dawnybabes

Is this the start of the Christmas rush ?

cazmanian_minx

Hopefully It starts to pick up mid-August normally, hitting its peak from the last week of October to the second week of December. I was worrying slightly today about the fact that I have to find another £2000 (for a total of £37xx - on the wrong computer for the exact figure), but then realised that it's the 2nd, I've already banked nearly £1000 and I made a sale for £233 today, so I think I might have enough by the end of the month

I had a nice transcription file assigned this afternoon, 72 minutes or £32.40-worth. The speakers aren't gabbling and are nice and clear, so I was whizzing through it quite happily when suddenly there was a whirring noise, the dog started barking her head off and I had a visitor:



(Just missed him perched on top of a sock on the indoor line!). He let me catch him, but fell over when I put him on top of a fence post, so he perched on my hand for a bit:

http://instagram.com/p/scwjWtjwc-/

then hopped onto my shoulder and flew off. Very special moment :):)

cazmanian_minx

Oh, and one more happy thing for the day, the lovely owner at the tack shop has only charged me £85 for a 3kg tub of Protexin Acid Ease and a bag of Speedibeet - RRP for the Protexin is more than that on its own.

cazmanian_minx

Today I've mostly been proofreading Glaswegians talking about personal finance products - right up my street Orders have dropped back a bit though, only 16 went out today and at the moment I have a grand total of one for £1.20 tomorrow! Hopefully my stock delivery will turn up though, so that might stimulate some sales.

I had a play around with the heating yesterday and after a bit of experimenting with turning different radiators on and off and seeing where the hot water went, came to the conclusion that it was indeed the pump that was knackered. Mr Minx went a whiter shade of pale, because he'd been told by the plumber who recommissioned the system when we moved in, 'If the pump ever goes on that it's going to be &&&^*&^ expensive.' Fortunately he must have meant the pump that brings the oil up to the boiler rather than the one that makes the water circulate in the system, because a quick Google showed that a new part from the manufacturer would be about £85.

So I sent a message on Facebook to Jeff, the lovely heating engineer who lives a couple of villages west of us, and asked if he could stop by at some point in the next week or so. He turned up this morning, agreed with my diagnosis, spent an hour having a natter and replacing the pump and only charged me £90. Love living up here that would have been about £200 in London!

I also logged on to HMRC to check that my tax return had been submitted and my overpayment was on its way and found a big message saying 'Repayment available', so I clicked on it, gave them my bank details and hopefully that'll chug its way into my account in the next week or so. They say a fortnight but don't chase until four weeks - with the VAT one it was something like three days, so fingers crossed this is as quick.

Knit_Witch

Yay to it not being the expensive pump and even more yays to the repayment!

mfmaybe

That's all sounding very positive. Where will the rebate go?

And yay for getting heating fixed both cheaply and quickly. Ours always seems to be going for one reason or another! We can get by for a few days using the fire, but unfortunately have no hot water without it. Cold showers in winter are not to be recommended.