since perlmonger and I got back from Dorset on Sunday night (and yes, it was very very nice indeed, thank you – see his post; I am currently sloughing like a snake, as I was daft enough to go on a boat trip without a hat, and my face got sunburned). Also, I propose an addon for TomTom that takes me to the nearest cream tea.
anyway, I digress. Since we got back, I haven’t stopped. Apart from final LibDem leaflets to be PagePlus’d ($deity bless the shiny Macbook and Parallels), and endless liaising with deliverererers, there’s been a big and fascinating potential project to investigate and cost, involving about 300 hours of video footage which needs to be tied to written transcripts. This meant I had to learn, in a hurry, about Flash, Actionscript, Amazon’s S3 service, and lord knows what else so I could cost it. I hope it comes off, because it would be a fascinating and worthwhile thing to work on.
and then there’s the company accounts, which are overdue at Companies House. We are changing accountants, and the papers need to be transferred from old to new. And there is a delay, which turns out to be because the person who _was_ looking after our accounts has actually died. You couldn’t make it up, really.
then there’s stuff to do for the local LibDem web site (which I made a start on at 6.30 this morning), and ongoing work to do for the maps site, and and and. I haven’t even looked at my photos since I got back.
the weekend will be mostly delivering leaflets, I think, with a trip to see the excellent Phil Beer on Saturday night. Hopefully things will calm down a bit after next week.
sorry to those I owe an e-mail (yes, including you, purple_peril).
> the person who _was_ looking after our accounts has actually died.
Excellent. Changing accountants was a painful experience for me too. I didnt have that problem though.
(The person who recommended my current accoutants to me also died though, but that is another story).
My accountant died, too.
The result was that I got fined 800 quid for non-submission of accounts which my new accountant claims he didn’t realise had not been submitted.
oh, and the National insurance arrangements the dead accountant set up; the new guy said he didn’t realise that was something she’d done, and that he’d have to do.
If my original accountant wasn’t dead, I’d kill her…