Taxing Day

Today has been a bit of a taxing day. In a few ways. Not just cause I completed my tax return and paid for it too. I’m poorer as a result. But it took an age to do!

I was heading over to my amazing friend who seems to be able to explain what I need in a way I can get. She also ignores my huffing, puffing and toddler-like tantrums and makes me do it!

It should have been a 30 mins max journey. Today it took well over an hour as there was an accident on the road I needed. Luckily I spotted that before I went that way. So I decided on an alternative route. Along with every man and his dog. It wasn’t just the volume of traffic, there were road closures, diversions and road works. I was seriously losing the will at times. It’s a good job Bert is so good in the car. He crashes out mostly.

Once I’d arrived, and everyone had had puppy cuddles, we cracked on. After several hours, it was all done. Honestly, I don’t think people realise the amount of ‘admin’ and ‘processes’ you have to do when you run your own business. There’s so much that needs to be done behind the scenes!

My tax return was a lot easier than my Corporation Tax return. Still makes me laugh. My little business is so far away from a Corporation!

I’m definitely getting less panicky when faced with brown envelopes. Well till I found one on my doorstep. Then I realised it was the Buddymobile’s road tax renewal. Very taxing indeed!

M25

Well it took me 5.5 hours to get here, but Mum was really pleased to see me.

One of my more challenging journeys after getting stuck three times. Including once for over an hour on the M25. It definitely deserves its nickname ‘the biggest car park’. It wasn’t the most comfortable in the heat. I wasn’t the only one. The people in the car next to me had an umbrella up over the window. Very resourceful.

I decided to take a detour on my way to Badminton to pop and see my parents. Wasn’t expecting it to add that much time to the journey. Good job I’d decided to break the journey up by staying the night here before heading off tomorrow.

GSOH

It’s been a rather random day. I spend 1.5 hours going nowhere on A47. There was an accident so I had to reschedule my meeting.

Sounds like a bad one. They closed both carriageways. So as soon as I could get off, I headed back home.

Given my plans had changed, I thought I’d take the old lino from the Buddymobile to a flooring shop to see if they had an offcut that would work. Thought I’d picked up both bits. Turns out I’d only picked up one. Didn’t matter as when I arrived, the shop was shut.

As I was getting back in the car, having wrestled the lino in the wind down the road and into the car, said wind caught my car door and closing it on my foot. Good job I was wearing my sturdy yard boots.

Good job I can laugh at my own ineptitude too. I’m blaming the eclipse.