under another sun

Got up and did some recording with Robin this morning.  As I was doing so, I was contacted yet again about the job that won't go away. Had yet another meeting with my client, and I became extremely impatient with him and told him so as he moved the goalposts yet again. Did the work and sent it off. Our difficulties compounded by working across two languages, and he is a nice chap but I have had enough and let him know. This sort of thing anathema to freelancers of course. Left me feeling irritable for the rest of the day. Lorraine meanwhile had been to her personal trainer, and had bought a stand mixer and been to the garden centre. 

Spent Friday going on a few walks and preparing to interview Leanne Howe, who is a poet from the  Choctaw Nation. However we had to bump the interview till Monday shortly before it was due to take place. I was not too worried by this as I was feeling a bit flat this afternoon.  Just before close of the working day got another offer of work starting Wednesday  next week. However it was complicated by agency deciding to employ us under IR35. This is a new tax change designed to wreak havoc on freelancers everywhere, adding layers of admin and uncertainty. The agency is going to treat Keith and I as pay as you earn employees for the week of the job, so deducting all tax and NI at source, leading to lots of accountancy unpicking later -- and a greatly reduced payment meanwhile. We have slightly raised what we are charging because of it, and this job now hangs in the balance. What freelancers need, after the worst business year for many in living memory, is a slew of new obsta...