I got an email from HMRC this morning, inviting me as a self employed person to register for consideration for their support grant as part of their economic package during the pandemic. It’s really rather Groundhog Day for those of us with a creative practice as we almost all need to shore up our income stream with some other steady source. An artist’s income is reliably intermittent. I have tried many ploys to bolster my finances and here is a little story about that……..