A small business owner’s diary entry on the surprisingly Kafkaesque process of simply trying to give a bank your money I want to open with a simple fact that still, six months later, makes me want to lie down on the floor of whichever bank […]
I Finally Understand Why Every Estate Agent in London Describes a Cupboard as a “Bonus Third Bedroom,” and I Have Made My Peace With It
A property-hunting diary entry on the increasingly creative language London estate agents deploy to describe spaces that defy basic geometry I have now viewed, by my own rough count, forty-one London flats over the past four months, and I have arrived at a place of […]
My Accountant Sent Me a Spreadsheet With Forty-Seven Tabs to Prepare for Self Assessment, and I Have Started Having Feelings About Tab Thirty-One
A small business owner’s diary entry on the annual dread of tax season and the increasingly elaborate systems built to survive it The email arrived, as it does every January, with the subject line “Self Assessment – Action Needed,” and I felt the familiar drop […]
I Hired a Virtual Assistant to Save Time, and I Have Now Spent More Hours Explaining My Business to Her Than I Would Have Spent Just Doing the Work Myself
A small business owner’s honest reckoning with the surprisingly steep learning curve of outsourcing tasks she thought would be simple Every business podcast I have ever half-listened to while doing the washing up has told me the same thing: hire help, delegate the small stuff, […]
My Landlord Increased My Shop’s Rent by Thirty Percent With Two Weeks’ Notice, and I Have Learned More About Commercial Leases Than I Ever Wanted To
A small business owner’s diary entry on the harsh education that comes with running a physical shop in London on a rolling lease The email arrived on a Tuesday morning, subject line “Lease Renewal Terms,” and by the time I finished reading it I had, […]
This Satire Site’s Economic Comedy Is Sharper Than Most Financial Journalism
Eton College VIP reviewed for bizhouse.uk readers who appreciate a well-built economic joke Good economic satire requires something most comedy doesn’t: an actual working understanding of how markets, audits and financial reporting function, so the joke lands as a genuine parody of the form rather […]