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Someone once said, ‘it’s not all glamour’. Can’t remember who it was but it’s stuck in my head tonight

I left the orifice sometime a whisker short of midnight, where I’ve left our quarterly VAT return considerably not done. reconciling bank statements and trying to dicipher factoring statements was not on my ‘things to do with my life’ list when we set out to do this mag thing, but it turns out that the amount of government faffing you have to do just to keep the Man from kicking in your door and stealing your shirt is considerable when you run a business.

No one said anything about multiple spreadsheets, Sage accounting systems, online factoring systems and how you make them all fit together at Mountain Bike magazine School. But then I have noticed a vague connection between bikes and accounts..

Take a bike apart.. clean it.. lube it and put it back together again and no matter how careful you are there’s always some small washer, bolt or widget left over and you can’t for the life of you work out where it came from. I’ve discovered that accounts are the same.. No matter how carefully you add up the numbers, track every penny or calculate the VAT component of mixed t-shirt/sub combos, there’s always some bloody amount left over that doesn’t fit anywhere. And why is it that when you can’t get the fucking numbers to square up it ALWAYS means you end up giving more of your bloody money to the sodding MAN.

And now, having got home at midnight, I’m still wide awake at 2:20am writing this shite! Alarm set for 7:20am so I can get back in to the office to add up some more numbers for the government, probably before my screensaver kicks in from leaving tonight.

I’d like to shake the hand of the person who said, ‘its not all glamour’. If you know who it is, let me know eh?

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