Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

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silvercar wrote: »

Luckily, another accountant will know their own limitations.

This year we have coped with .....[removed]

I leave the accountant spreasheets with incomings and outgoings, broken up into varying categories depending on which part of CK Enterprises it's for.

Anything we're unsure of gets put into a separate spreadsheet, which then gets looked at with any accompanying receipts if necessary.

Due to varying factors the company has declared a loss for the last 2 years, although it's mainly due to extra things being done for AIAs. It also has meant that due to the financing of the assets in question, I've been able to get the money to remove some of the large amount of equity in the company, where the deposits for some of the work for the new assets in the last few months has significantly positively affected the cashflow of the business, which was by all accounts extremely poor.

That probably makes no sense, but I understand how I've done everything

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

Tax return done for another year. :j

:T

SingleSue wrote: »

Tonight it took me 5 minutes to walk approx 15 feet! I won't tell you how long it took to get up the stairs but I was exhausted and in tears by the time I did it.

Oh no! Sending hugs.

Generali wrote: »

Not AIUI.

Weight bearing exercise means exercise that means you lift some kind of weight.

Again AIUI (and I really am not an expert but I try hard to listen to experts rather than charlatans) exercise that means you lift weight (e.g. push ups, bench presses, yard work) is great for women as it encourages them to put more calcium into their bones and is great for men as it helps stave off heart disease and reduces fat being laid down in muscle and muscle atrophy related to age.

Having said that, most of the exercise I do is cycling and swimming.

That got me interested, so I looked into it a bit further. NHS Choices has a page about preventing osteoporosis here

NHS wrote:

Weight-bearing exercise and resistance exercise are particularly important for improving bone density and helping to prevent osteoporosis.

Weight-bearing exercises
Weight-bearing exercises are exercises where your feet and legs support your weight. High-impact weight-bearing exercises, such as running, skipping, dancing, aerobics, and even jumping up and down on the spot, are all useful ways to strengthen your muscles, ligaments and joints.

Resistance exercises
Resistance exercises use muscle strength, where the action of the tendons pulling on the bones boosts bone strength. Examples include press-ups, weightlifting or using weight equipment at a gym.

So you were right about what sort of exercise is beneficial for bone density, but I had remembered the terminology.

Generali

LydiaJ wrote: »

So you were right about what sort of exercise is beneficial for bone density, but I had remembered the terminology.

:j:TWhat a team! :T:j

LydiaJ

Generali wrote: »

:j:TWhat a team! :T:j

You're a good pro-exercise influence on the thread, Gen. Just frequent enough to prevent complacency, without banging on about it incessantly and becoming irritating, especially with your "start small" and "even a little is beneficial" themes. Thanks.

So what should I do about a pedometer? Any ideas? I don't really want to spend as much as a Fitbit if I can help it, but ideally I'd like something that can tell the difference between walking, running, and going up stairs. (I do a LOT of stairs every day at work, and want any pedometer I try to give credit where I've earned it for stairs!) Is that possible without shelling out for a Fitbit???

I know some NP have had Fitbits. How long does the "I have a Fitbit so I'm more motivated to exercise" effect last before it wears off??

Generali

LydiaJ wrote: »

So what should I do about a pedometer? Any ideas?

Don't drink a bottle of brandy and go round to stab him as you'll end up getting 7.5 years inside. Oh hang on sorry, wrong news story.

I know nothing about pedometers TBH.

I've found over the years that finding exercise that I enjoy works best because then it's something that I want to find time to do rather than it being just another bloody chore to dodge.

Team/group sports are great for that reason. When it was cold and wet on a Sunday morning and I was half cut from the night before I didn't want to let my teammates down who were doubtless feeling just/almost as shabby by leaving them without a right back. Also, having a kick about on a Sunday morning is great fun (for me)!

My advice would always be to find a physical endeavour you enjoy and then go out and enjoy it. There are a multitude of ways to be active from sex to soccer to sack racing.

Generali

SingleSue wrote: »

Tonight it took me 5 minutes to walk approx 15 feet! I won't tell you how long it took to get up the stairs but I was exhausted and in tears by the time I did it.

You poor thing. Life is horrid some days.

I made proper custard for dinner tonight with actual vanilla and eggs and cream and sugar. I am sending some to you virtually in the hope that it makes you feel a little better.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never had that. Nor will I.
To me, "proper custard" means Birds custard powder, a pint of milk, a bowl and a saucepan
I just do packet mix "instant custard", as I can make just a few spoons of it, as required.

That was 'proper custard' to me until I was about 25. Then I worked out how you make custard. About the same time I also worked out how to make mayonnaise.

Now I understand how it works.

There are two things called custard. One is a packet of powder that is mixed with milk and heated. That is something that has a cheap price on the shelf. However as the end product has no value to me it is very expensive.

About 5 times a year I will buy cream, heat it and add to the eggs, vanilla and sugar I already have in my cupboard and make something delicious. It shares a name with another product but is not the same thing.

I do not claim that one thing is better than the other, they are simply two different things. To compare them would be like asking is an orange better than a Terry's Chocolate Orange? They are completely different things to be enjoyed differently.

For the record.....TCO: NOM! Oranges...?



.....NOM!

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

There's a newish programme, that started about 2 weeks ago, called What to Buy & Why. BBC2 on Fridays at 8.30pm.
I watched the first and thought "this isn't for me; I don't buy things"

However - one of the products the first programme covered was exercise apps and gadgets. Along with a lot of on-programme tests of various methods with lots of people walking up/down the shard (or similar).

Might be worth watching it on a new-fangled "watch it when you want" service.

Thanks PN. Watched it. Confirmed I don't want to get any of the gadgets featured. Feel happy to have got rid of the slightly nagging "maybe I should" feeling.

PasturesNew

I guess my eating habits can be described as: I like eating .... I don't like food, I am not a foodie.

So long as something tastes nice to me, I'm happy with that. No desire to spend a lot of time/money trying to improve upon what I was happy with.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

We never had cream when I was growing up. I've never bought cream. Even the cream that used to be on the top of a pint of milk was gross to me - and had to be shaken in and not seen before I'd drink the milk.

When I see the word "cream" it just makes me grimace.

So I won't be buying cream and heating it up ... the thought turns my stomach.

Quite happy to eat things with cream in them, so long as I've not seen it go in, it's not mentioned/no big deal made of it .... and if anybody tries to splash (cold) cream on top of soup I'd be screaming "STOP!".

Some things I eat have invariably got cream in them - but I've no wish to find out .... in case it puts me off eating them

I just have a mental image of cream going off and/or going lumpy and everything ending in tears after a nasty taste experience.

I've never had vanilla, nor anything close.

You might have had it in an ice cream at some point. Its seeds are tiny and leave black specks in the ice cream so if you ever went somewhere selling fancy ice cream and it had tiny black specks you may well have had some.

Vanillin is often used to flavour custard powders and 'vanilla flavour' ice cream. It is made from the crud that is left over from making petrol. It used to be made from the crud left over from making paper but that is now seen as being bad for the environment.

It is, or was, often labelled as vanilla essence (as opposed to vanilla extract).

PasturesNew wrote: »

No idea what TCO is/means.

Terry's Chocolate Orange = TCO. I was being lazy, sorry.