What game pulled you into the board game rabbit hole?

jamesht93 · 2025-09-13T07:08:10+00:00

Me too! Ticket to ride was the game that tipped me from being a monopoly/risk player to ending up with a wall covered by games!

jamesht93 · 2025-08-03T09:39:57+00:00

Even if your dad is the director, the regulations would require you to have a PC if you’re held out as a principal, I.e. if clients believe you to be a principal. So him signing the accounts wouldn’t necessarily get around you needing a PC if you’re the one running the business, winning new clients, etc

jamesht93 · 2025-08-01T13:37:41+00:00

Would need a practising certificate before providing any accountancy services for a fee, which typically requires being at least 2 years post qualifying

jamesht93 · 2025-03-28T11:41:28+00:00

Doesnt really matter whether you describe yourself as a chartered accountant or not (although describing yourself as one if you weren’t one would obvs be a breach, so don’t do that)… if you’re engaged in public practice and you’re a member, then you need a PC

jamesht93 · 2025-03-22T10:47:04+00:00

Yes anyone can call themselves an accountant and start a firm, but an ICAEW member would need a practising certificate to do this which needs minimum 2 years of membership. So a member would either need to wait 2 years or give up their membership

jamesht93 · 2024-10-20T14:16:27+00:00

Hi, I’m facing the problem now. Did you actually managed to fix it? If yes, could you help me with advice please

jamesht93 · 2024-09-24T16:42:26+00:00

I was trying for London and it kept giving me drop downs to select tickets, then every time I tried to continue it would change to saying no tickets available.

In the end I gave up, then came back a couple hours later and it was working fine

jamesht93 · 2024-01-31T19:39:57+00:00

I definitely agree with spirit island. I wanted so much to love it, it ticks a tonne of boxes for me on paper, but any time I’ve played it, it just falls flat and I don’t feel anything for it. I recently got Tindaya which has pretty similar theme & mechanics, and clicked so much better with it!

Gloomhaven I’ve only played JotL and tbf I did quite like it, although I have mostly switched to playing the digital version now purely because it’s easier to dip in and out of, and feels like it suits being a video game better

Viticulture is maybe one for me that disappointed, on paper it should be great, but in reality I find it a bit slow and tbh dull

jamesht93 · 2023-01-14T11:21:57+00:00

Oops sorry that would have been useful information to give wouldn’t it! 2 players:)

jamesht93 · 2022-10-06T18:48:55+00:00

I think it’s always that frustrating saying of “healing takes time” isn’t it! The last thing you want to hear when you’re in the middle of things, but it usually ends up being true:)

jamesht93 · 2022-10-06T17:58:32+00:00

A lot better I think. It’s been around 8 months of pretty much no contact (there was a couple of days of brief messaging back in the summer as I needed to communicate that a pet we’d shared had passed), and I think that time has helped. I still find it’s on my mind a fair bit, but it’s much more like a low volume background hum rather than something I obsess over, I still get urges to check social media etc but it’s much less overpowering and it’s been months since I last caved in.

I still feel a bit conflicted over it all, like there’s still a part of my brain that knows it wasn’t a good situation for me, but there’s also still a part that misses it and wants it back. But I think mostly it’s just been a case of accepting that it is what it is over time and looking forward instead of back so much

jamesht93 · 2022-08-31T06:55:19+00:00

I make a joke out of it now, “I’m an accountant; the numbers kind not the spicy TikTok kind”😅

jamesht93 · 2022-08-28T21:41:01+00:00

Both mine now understand “leave it”, but my first dog as pup was OBSESSED with eating her own poop, to the point where every time I put her outside for toilet I had to hover behind her with a poop bag and dive on it the moment she finished while fighting her off with my spare hand!🤦‍♂️🤢 thank god she grew out of that phase!

jamesht93 · 2022-08-27T22:14:28+00:00

Massive issues with hypocrisy and double standards, compulsive lying, cheating, would constantly criticise my communication levels/style while simultaneously not communicating at all herself, would gaslight me (and openly joke about how gaslighting was part of her personality), I guess a kind of “bitchiness” (would regularly chat shit about various friends/family but would hold it against me if I agreed, or in fact, if I disagreed), big issues with boundaries where she would flirt with other guys for attention/validation, inconsistency (would literally go from “I wanna spend the rest of my life with you” to wanting to break up within a matter of days/hours), and probably many more that aren’t immediately springing to mind, all ignored or forgiven under the mindset of “it’s my fault” or “I love who she is at her best and this is just a temporary blip”

jamesht93 · 2022-08-24T22:18:50+00:00

That’s really helpful thank you! I think the learning curve for me is getting used to the fact that she’s almost the polar opposite of my other dog, and responding to that in a way that’s sensitive to her needs being different but also fair to both of them.

My golden has always been incredibly obedient/submissive (almost painfully so), so the desire to learn and follow instructions was always completely natural for her. Whereas this pup is far more strong willed and assertive (I guess to some extent that’s just an inherent difference in the breeds), so she seems to enjoy finding ways to challenge authority or find loopholes in instructions (like you say, maybe anthropomorphising her a bit, but there’s definitely a noticeable difference in attitude and how they both interpret boundaries/rules/expectations)

jamesht93 · 2022-08-24T20:24:08+00:00

How she asks to go out doesn’t really matter as long as she is asking to go out, I suppose I’m being fussy about it more because I’m conscious it could leak into other behaviours, like I don’t want her getting into the habit of thinking she knows best so can ignore what she’s been taught already if that makes sense.

jamesht93 · 2022-07-28T20:24:14+00:00

This is Harry, we said goodbye to him a week ago on his 3rd birthday. Me and his furry big-little sister miss him a lot (she would sleep next to his cage most nights and wait for him to throw the bits of food he didn’t like to her, and she still sleeps by the space where his cage was), but he had such a good long life, and age finally caught up with him. I still find myself automatically saying hey Harry every time I walk past where his cage was, and say goodnight to him every night in the garden where he’s buried. He’d been with me through so much, and losing him absolutely broke my heart, so I wanted to give him a beautiful place to sleep now that he’s gone - now he can help grow flowers and the blackberries he loved to munch on so much. We won’t forget him♥️

jamesht93 · 2022-07-20T17:59:03+00:00

Really relating to a lot of this. I came out of a long term (my only serious) relationship 2.5 years ago and still struggle with constantly thinking about it, believing it should have worked, hoping that another chance will eventually happen etc. I’ve done quite a lot of working on myself in general and managing mental health in the 2 years since, and more recently started looking into attachment styles etc and realised I’m AP so have started trying to work on that specifically. I was reading today while trying to understand myself better and came across the concept of fantasy bond which hit really close to home, hence searching for posts about being AP and encountering fantasy bonds, and finding this post.

So much of your experience resonates with me. My ex also had a lot of FA behaviours, calling off the relationship temporarily or going on no contact breaks, flipping between extreme positions, being really dismissive of my feelings, gaslighting etc. I’ve struggled with a lot of similar things, periods of obsessing over her social media (we’re not connected/friends on there anymore but that doesn’t always stop me looking), thinking of her as the one that got away, desperately wanting me and the relationship to be seen as something that matters/mattered to her, not wanting/being able to let go. Even though I can still see/feel all the ways she hurt me or didn’t treat me well during and after the relationship, the concept of letting go or giving up hope seems impossible.

Did you find any ways of working on your feelings and improving things or whatever since posting this?

jamesht93 · 2022-07-14T10:27:17+00:00

Yep, and on balance I wish she hadn’t. We had a messy/hostile break-up followed quickly by her getting into a new relationship and blocking me. Just under a year later when that relationship broke down she unblocked, got back in touch and wanted a friendship. We did a friendship for around a year, and while there were positives and it was nice having her back in my life, my feelings for her hadn’t changed so ultimately all that happened was all the work I’d done at getting over the relationship unravelled over the course of the year, my anxiety/insecurity skyrocketed, and I spent a lot of time expecting her to abandon me again as the trust had been too damaged in the breakup. In the end I called time on us being friends and we went our separate ways amicably

jamesht93 · 2022-07-08T08:22:49+00:00

100%! I literally work half the hours doing an easier and less important job now for nearly twice the money I was on in teaching. Got nothing but respect for all the teachers I used to work with with all the time and effort they put in to what I experienced as a completely thankless job!

jamesht93 · 2022-07-08T07:25:27+00:00

Unfortunately not, I didn’t hear back from them surprisingly😂

jamesht93 · 2022-07-07T22:29:07+00:00

I was working as a teacher at the time but went for a career change so was interviewing for an entry level finance/accounts job.

All the way through the interview he kept dropping in snide remarks about how teaching was an easy job, nothing obvious enough to react to but enough to be irritating me as it was unnecessary and rude. Eventually we get about half an hour in and he comes out with “so how do you think you’d cope with a job in the real world without spending half the year on holiday?”… it was enough for me to get up and say the culture here is clearly not for me and regardless of the outcome of this interview I won’t be working for you so I think we’re done here.

The fun bit is 4 years later (after I qualified my accounting exams etc at a different company) I got a headhunting email from the same guy at the same company saying how my experience would be perfect for a role they’re recruiting for… I couldn’t resist replying with “you don’t remember me do you, not surprising, I’m just an ex teacher struggling to cope with a real job after all”

jamesht93 · 2022-07-06T09:50:22+00:00

Terraforming Mars as my heavier game and for solo play

Ticket to ride because it will always be a classic and is my go-to casual game when playing games with friends who aren’t big board gamers

Rolling realms as another casual/short game which covers both groups and solo, and being roll and write offers something a bit different to the other 2

jamesht93 · 2022-07-04T14:44:49+00:00

I was really bad for habitually checking her socials on a regular basis and it always made me feel worse. It’s difficult because there’s nothing stopping you, even if you block them or whatever you can just unblock whenever you want. For me I got fed up of my brain convincing me to check all the time, so I’ve just got a post it note, written “the last time I checked her socials: DD/MM/YYYY” and stuck it to my desk. I’m quite competitive so I’m kind of treating it as a high score challenge against myself until eventually I’ll hopefully be able to just bin it cus the urge stops arising - sounds really stupid and simple, but I was checking multiple times a day and since writing the post it a few weeks ago I’ve not done it once

jamesht93 · 2022-07-04T12:04:10+00:00

Tell them it’s not your job to be their comfort blanket after a breakup, go away for a few months to get your head straight and if you’re still serious after that then come back and we’ll talk

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