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  • Sheep Blog – June 2023

    5 June 🐑 🐑 🐑 The farm had some friendly chickens to stay for a few weeks which was fun! Don’t get too close, they will peck your teeth. 10 June 🐑 🐑 🐑 The main flock is all doing well, starting to get hot in their fleeces. Shearing carries on in the Lsd flock at […]

  • Enews July 2023

    In this month’s Enews  we look at HMRC’s extension to the deadline for voluntary NICs and the temporary closure of the self assessment helpline. We also update you on cost overruns on Making Tax Digital and the latest on UK inflation. With guidance on the National Minimum Wage and another increase to the UK’s base […]

  • Enews – July 2022

    This month we consider the latest news on Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self Assessment. We also update you on rising inflation and interest rates and the impact of the increase in national insurance contributions. With guidance for employers and a warning for new homeowners, there is a lot to update you on. MTD […]

  • Sheep Blog – June 2021

    One of the moorhens has built a precarious nest on the kids’ raft from a few years ago.  1984 and her lambs are still doing well.  The ewes are being moved regularly from field to field.  As soon as we walk in she comes running over … and then all the ewes come running over […]

  • Enews – July 2021

    In this month’s Enews we consider the winding down of the furlough scheme, the apprenticeship cash boost, changes to property taxes and HMRC’s investigations into COVID support schemes. With the introduction of the one stop shop for VAT on EU trade, an update on Tax-Free Childcare, tax credits renewals and claiming tax relief for working from […]

  • Sheep Blog – May 2021

      7 May 🐑 🐑 🐑 1984’s lambs are doing brilliantly – here chilling out in the sunshine. They will run up to say hello – following mum – but we are not yet able to touch them. They are still very wary. Perhaps they can remember the elastic band going onto their tails.  Our lot […]

  • Enews – July 2020

    Enews – July 2020 In this month’s Enews, we report on Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Summer Economic Update, which unveiled the government’s three-point plan to protect and create jobs as the economy begins to recover from the coronavirus lockdown. There have been plenty of other developments. We look at some of them here and analyse changes to […]

  • Sheepish Activities June/July 2020

    12 June 🐑 🐑 🐑 No sooner than last month’s newsletter was written, we had a last-minute text to say the shearers would be in the next day. This is the main flock ‘in waiting’. This is Lsd’s flock waiting (in more spacious accommodation). Waiting to be sheared is a stressful, noisy experience and thank goodness Tieran (our […]