Friday, September 27, 2019

Only xxx days until the Christmas VAT return!

I'm getting back to normal.  Getting to bed by 7.30 the other night was a big help and I had plenty of sleep again last night too.  I hope that I'll get to bed in good time tonight too (so will keep this brief) but the big thing is that I can sleep easy because after far too many hours I have finally submitted my VAT return via Quickbooks.  Great relief!  I'd like to say that it will get easier in time, but it won't: it will still take a long, long time to transcribe the information from my files onto the computer once every three months.  Still rules is rules.  And I now don't have to worry about that until the end of December, when the preparation and submission of my VAT return is always one of the 'highlights' of the Christmas period.

Plenty of water to flow under the bridge between now and then, although it is depressing to have reached the stage of noticing that it is only (less than) three months to Christmas.  Let's hope we can have slotted in a few winners by then.  We'll have two chances this weekend on what are forecast to be a couple of stormy days.  Both runners will be double-figure odds, but I'm looking forward to both outings.  Hope Is High will find herself in relatively exalted company tomorrow in a Class Three handicap under Chelmsford's floodlights, but she's earned the right to take part off a low weight and running off her handicap mark.

She's 4lb higher than when she won a Class Four at Bath last month, but in effect she's 7lb higher as Megan Nicholls can't ride as Hope has too light a weight.  (Megan would have been able to do Hope's weight of 8:04, but she has a 3lb claim so that would be 8:01 if she rode, and that wouldn't be feasible).  So we're up 4lb in the ratings list and are losing the 3lb claim, so that's 7lb higher.  Still, looking on the bright side, Nicola is riding, and if anyone could pull off a bit of magic to offset the 7lb rise, she would be the one.  Anyway, whether or not we're good enough, Hope will do her best, as always, and I'm sure won't let us down.

I'm sure that Dereham will perform honourably and creditably on Sunday afternoon too, at what is likely to be a very wet Epsom.  Realistically it's hard to expect too much on the form of his debut at Salisbury two weeks ago, but he's come out of the race well and is ready to run again, and I'm hoping and expecting him to have come on for the race.  He's a genuine little horse and, even if some of the others are a bit good for him, he'll do his best and run respectably.  And Raul Da Silva, who rode him very nicely on debut, will ride again and he'll give him every chance to do whatever he can do.  It'll be a tiring weekend but I'm looking forward to it.

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