Ask the Bear & Badger - The Bear and Badger

afgavinstan

cockbeard wrote:

Hmm, Rivers Cuomo tribute tattoo??

LCD Soundsystem, Shirley?

cockbeard

Yeah, that's fair enough, my brain just immediately went to Weezer because I'm OLD

poprock

I thought Bowie.

I’m OLDER.

yourfavouriteuncle

I thought either Dante was making a superhero costume as he’s finally had enough of the trouble on the streets or, and this may be more likely, he’s following his dream into WWF and that’ll be his leotard logo.

One these just has to be right.

poprock

Dante, I know a girl who makes wrestling costumes if it’s the latter. Can put you in touch …

cockbeard

poprock wrote:

Dante, I know a girl who makes wrestling costumes if it’s the latter. Can put you in touch …

So many questions

Diluted Dante

Kow

Bondage party so. Plenty going in that mouth hole.

Moot_Geeza

That's a bit kinky for Worms dlc.

cockbeard

Good morning my lovelies. Work gave me an iPhone, and it does have one very cool little feature, next to the battery indicator it also shows my headphone battery level. Is this available on Android as well, I can click through the Bose app and check it in there but having it on the status bar is awesome and intuitive

kestla

That would be handy, yes. I could be wrong, but it doesn't show anything for me. When I first connect the headphones via Bluetooth, it tells me the battery remaining but doesn't give me a live status unfortunately.

cockbeard

Same here, it tells me when I turn them on, but the iPhone adds this little indicator which is very cool. Just wondered if there was a widget or anything been designed for Android

There you go Yoss, I found something good about iPhone, oooh, two good things actually, I'm using Apple Music as well

Kow

My Sony Xperia tells me the battery level of any connected bluetooth device.

Yossarian

cockbeard wrote:

Same here, it tells me when I turn them on, but the iPhone adds this little indicator which is very cool. Just wondered if there was a widget or anything been designed for Android

There you go Yoss, I found something good about iPhone, oooh, two good things actually, I'm using Apple Music as well

Keep an eye out for a generally-reduced number of bugs on the phone owing to a lack of hardware and OS fragmentation too.

MattyJ

Hang on... My iPhone does do that. If I want to check battery for airpods I either have to scroll across to the widgets or open the case

JMW

I think it’s only on iPhones without the cutout.

JMW

Or at least, I don’t have it with AirPods on an 11.

cockbeard

Haha, cheers Kow, that's pretty handy, works on my pixel too, so probably for everyone. Shame it's not on the status bar, but a scroll down is way easier than opening the app

kestla

Would like to book 1 or 2 nights in a cottage somewhere with the wife and 4 year old daughter. Near a beach is preferable, but not make or break. Some solitude would be grand, though.

Have had a quick gander, but the volume of websites, locations etc is overwhelming. Who knew so many people had holiday homes to rent?!

Does anyone have any recommendations? I'm based in London, but happy to drive 3 or 4 hours if need be.

pantyfire

Shaldon in Devon.
Very very chill.

cockbeard

The Pig on the Beach is in a beautiful part of Dorset, top class food, little caravan cabins and outhouses for accomodation. Then you're only 20 minutes away from the new forest, or the purbecks, or decent sized towns like Bournemouth and Poole

https://www.thepighotel.com/on-the-beach/

kestla

Both lovely suggestions, cheers. Absolutely everywhere seems to be booked up, or cost a million pounds though

afgavinstan

Can anyone here help me/my missus with help with Quickbooks? She's a sole trader, illustration business, no employees. Needs it so she can file her expenses a lot quicker to Universal Credit, and also have it help her to do her tax return when the time comes. But we're both stupidly confused by the account and subscriptions model.

Does she need QB Online AND QB Self Employed? Or just the latter? She's turning to me all stressed (and currently unwell with flu) looking for answers and when I don't know, I get frustrated and we both end up in a huff with each other. Just wanting to see if anyone here can help, or shed some light. Cheers in advance.

Funkstain

So as far as I can tell, Quickbooks Online is the blanket name for all the Quickbooks Cloud accounting subscriptions, which includes QB Self-employed.

The main difference between different QB subs is whether you're VAT registered or not. I assume your missus is not VAT registered - so indeed yes, QB self employed is the one to go with.

I'm also assuming she's planning to use QB SE as an aggregation / presentation tool for her expenses, for UC purposes, and that she's not planning to be VAT registered any time soon?

afgavinstan

Yeah, not Vat registered, not planning to soon. She's been doing her expenses on paper and each month she's losing her mind. She started by getting confused, going for the blanket one at a tenner a month, then it was asking her to go to SE which was an extra £6, saying she was in a trial version of that. Thats where the main confusion is just now.

All she's went on is a close pal of hers with a similar setup saying "aw yeah, just get self employed, it's a tenner a month" and is now confused. Not wanting to bother her pal but fine with gaslighting me into it, lol.

Cheers Funk.

Funkstain

OK so my guess is she went for the most basic version of online which is called Simple Start. It's usually £12 month and is for VAT registered businesses.

She should have gone for Self-Employed which is priced at £8 per month and is quite different from VAT registered version so existing data will need to be migrated....doh.

This bit of website helps:

"If you need to move from QuickBooks Self Employed to Simple Start (or vice versa) our friendly team will explain how to migrate your data. Of course, it's easier if you pick the right QuickBooks product from the start, so please call us on 0808 168 9533 if you need any guidance."

You're "vice versa". At the moment she'll be paying for two separate products doing the same thing. If you don't miss the extra £4 per month it may be easier to stay with Simple Start (which does everything she needs plus VAT which is the only meaningful difference I can see. Both support self assessment returns, both support expenses etc.

afgavinstan

Ah, righto, Simple Start definitely rings a bell to me. That's what she's done. I think she's only put in a month or so's worth of data so hopefully it won't be too bad. Will update.

Thanks again man. Lifesaver cos I'm reeeeeeeeeeally bloody tired today.

afgavinstan

Right, the Online one has been cancelled and she's subbed to SE. Thankfully, she had already input the same expenses data for each of them so nothing was 'lost'. What was lost was my brain afterwards as she tried to explain to me parts of it overall she didn't fully understand. Its all Greek to me so eventually she gave up and said "oh ill just ask Jess" I mean, omg, how dare I? Heh.

Thanks again man.

Funkstain

No worries glad it's sorted, AND she's paying less so winner winner chicken dinner

stonechalice

kestla wrote:

Would like to book 1 or 2 nights in a cottage somewhere with the wife and 4 year old daughter. Near a beach is preferable, but not make or break. Some solitude would be grand, though.

Have had a quick gander, but the volume of websites, locations etc is overwhelming. Who knew so many people had holiday homes to rent?!

Does anyone have any recommendations? I'm based in London, but happy to drive 3 or 4 hours if need be.

Going through various websites is a nightmare for this. I've found the best way is to find a location you're keen on, then open Google maps and search for accommodation nearby. You can find some hidden gems this way.

Howdy, Stranger!

Categories