Caz counts it down

cazmanian_minx

milasavesmoney wrote: »

I'm wondering how you tell which sheep are yours. Do you tag their ears?

Yes - all sheep have to be identified with a double tag (one electronic, one non-electronic) by nine months of age or when they move off their holding of birth, whichever is sooner. As it's nearly impossible to read an ear tag unless you've caught the sheep or have some very powerful binoculars, most people round here will mark them with a coloured spray, so someone will use a green spot on the left hind quarter, someone else will have a blue spot on the right shoulder and so on. Some farms also use ear notching, one ear will be the notches identifying the farm and the position of the notch in the other ear will identify the year the sheep was born.

DebtFree2012 wrote: »

We need a Finn blog now surely

That would be a riveting read - NOT! :rotfl: Day 1 - didn't have time to do anything with pony. Day 2 - didn't have time to do anything with pony. Day 3 - accidentally loose schooled for 2 minutes because he followed me round the field when I went to talk to John. Day 4 - didn't have time to do anything with pony. I'm hoping next door's fields have dried up enough to move him back down here at the weekend, because he looks like he swallowed a whisky barrel at the moment.

Mr Minx is away this week, so my goals are:
1. Clear typing backlog
2. Pot up tomato seedlings
3. Plant spuds
4. Do accounts for last year

DebtFree2012

LOL that's why I said it then you will have to


We are doing 2 and 3 ourselves. Tomatoes are doing well, spuds I have no idea what the ones already in the ground are doing. I read that the soil temp needs to be 15 degrees before they will grow, which is never going to happen here yet!

cazmanian_minx

Hm, don't think that's right or we'd never be able to grow a spud in Scotland :rotfl:

As I have my spreadsheets out, some scores on doors from last week.

Journalist #3 - £50.25
NEL - £105.00
Small agency - £10.00
Mr RPC - £232.20

Total: £397.45 - a much better week than I thought it was!

Pippilongstocking

5 degrees for plants to get to active growth :-)

I absolutely Hated doing ear notching we use to have 740 sheep and 50 coos much prefer painting their bums :-)

DebtFree2012

I think the post I read must have had a typo and put a 1 in front of the 5, I was giggling at the thought of it. How I'd love that temperature! Wet and cold here again today but no wind thankfully. I can't decide which I hate more, wind or rain! They are ruining my horses days!!!


Good scores Caz, Mr RPC is keeping you busy still but good to see other income too.

cazmanian_minx

Where's this week gone?? Well, I'll tell you where - Mr Minx was away, so I cranked up the workload, and this was the result:

Journalist #3 £18.75
Big agency £31.50
Journalist #1 £208.00
NEL £24.50
Mr RPC £261.00

Total: £542.75 :eek::eek::beer::beer::j:j

I thought that deserved a weekend off, so I am having two whole days with NO typing work at all (although I've replied to two emails from clients to accept work for next week).

Today's been great The heating engineer turned up this morning to take out the existing central heating down the road and also delivered his quote for installing the underfloor heating, which was reasonable, so we shook hands on it on the spot, and when he'd finished and I asked him to please send me a bill for this morning's work, he said it was free of charge.

Went into town and treated ourselves to a chip shop lunch, which we ate in the truck parked up at the harbour watching the waves roll in, then went to the agricultural store for twine for the baler - John Angy is going to bring his tractor up next week to make sure it works okay, as if it doesn't, it's better to find out now than when we've towed it down to the point and have 2.5 acres of hay waiting. Then to Tesco, which wasn't that bad, in to see Mr Minx's mum and home, where an absolute mountain of post had been delivered. In amongst my new business bank account stuff was the letter from Animal Health with my flock number, so it was straight onto the net to order some ear tags and an applicator for the sheep.

Tomorrow it's back down the road in the morning to strip out the panelling behind where the radiators were, then I'm going up to the farm in the afternoon to get some lambing experience

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All sounding good and as if great progress is being made.

DebtFree2012

Perfect weekend to me. The scores are trending upwards each week! Well done you.

cazmanian_minx

My new 0% card has arrived, so I've activated it and started shuffling cash around. My new log-in details for Nationwide arrived as well. So far the shuffle has gone like this:

£4,257 moved to Lloyds from Halifax.
£1,200 moved to Lloyds from Barclaycard.
£3,000 moved to Nationwide from Barclaycard.

Assuming all those go through okay, that gives me:
£5,457 + 3% fee (or possibly less - I did it through the MSE link, so it should be part-rebated) on the Lloyds card for 32 months at 0%.
£3,000 + 2.4% fee on Nationwide for 12 months at 0%
Puts the Barclaycard £4,200 in credit.

Next steps:
See if Halifax will issue another 0% money transfer offer (mine annoyingly ran out at the end of March) - if so, transfer maximum £9,975.
Money transfer maximum off unused Barclaycard - £6,650.
Withdraw or spend down the £4,200 on day-to-day Barclaycard, then money transfer maximum of £11,400

All of which should leave me with £32,225 taken from 0% cards (GULP!!!) plus the £5,251 in the offset (the rest of it is either Mr Minx's or the holiday cocktail fund), so a total of £37,476 to get down the road sorted out. I have another £10,000 available via money transfer on a card of Mr Minx's and I think I'll need some of it, but not all - our budget estimate was £45,000.

So the clock is ticking, I have 12 months to get the house done and revalued, the land it stands on decrofted, and a successful application for a commercial mortgage through before the 0%s start ending. Game on

Goldcup

Hi Caz, what company/ies do you work for transcribing and proof reading? I am looking into this now but need to speed up my typing!