Today was tax self assessment day. OK – I know I’ve got about six months to file the damn thing but I like to get it out of the way and the really great thing about filing a tax return if you are a freelance writer is that you only need to worry about how much money that comes in and your expenses. It’s not like I have to buy a stock of words and phrases from a wholesaler and sell them on, so I don’t have to worry about net and gross and stock costs etc.
Anyway, it is done and it is the only day of the year that I feel vindicated for sitting at home, playing with myself in front of the PC. This year, I surprised even myself and managed to pull in a record amount of cash – the most ever – and it would have been even more if Highbury House hadn’t keeled over and died without paying me. The weird thing is that despite having a bumper year, money seems to be scarce. I don’t get it. The more I earn, the less I have. How does that work? Mind you, when I had a full-time job and was pulling in over £10k more than I am now, I was still rooting around for money in that last week before pay-day, so it seems that the old adage “more money, more problems” might just be true.
In the post: a stock of blank CD-Rs and quad CD cases. Yup – I also need to print/burn a new stock of “Sow’s Ears” because I is sold out and the stock I thought I had, I’d send off the other month. Expensive business having your own independent record label! 🙂 (It’s called Little Lemon Records, by the way)
In order to keep this blog visually stimulating, here’s a picture of Alex the Wonderdog doing what he does best:

And here’s a badly taken photograph of my fishtank – the yellow fishes are mollys and the brown blur in the centre of the pic is a catfish:

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