I have only recently realised the importance of having a good toolkit at your disposal.  The reason is that I have acted as a buy to let landlord, needing to have a portable base to make running repairs.  I have only limited space in the car for tool storage so I have to pack light. Most things can be settled with a screwdriver, a hammer or some nails, I find.

I was looking back at the old Party Plan that I used to be involved in a few days ago.  This is a business area that is restricted to women because you are involved with supplying lingerie and other personal items to female party customers. As long as you can remain unruffled when describing a crotchless panty to a client, you can make a fair income from these plans.

Finally we had some good weather this weekend, after such a miserable period of rain and grey skies. When the sun came out, the barbecues seemed to be alight within minutes and all the outdoor pursuits followed. We even unearthed our set of landscape lighting that had main hidden in packing boxes since the move, and it was an absolute delight to be able to sit in the garden after sunset and enjoy the warmth.

Since moving house and taking stock of her online earnings, my Mum has decided to become a party animal. Now she is planning at least five social engagements every week. She has come into contact with other ladies of a certain age who also have time on their hands and a little cash to spend on things like caribbean cruises - and why should they not enjoy the fruits of their labour?

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When we were walking along the beach this morning I noticed a guy waiting for us to pass and he was holding a radio controlled model plane, waiting to release it for its flight. These are known as RC airplanes and they are surprisingly popular with middle aged men, who often become quite obsessed with the hobby. I was surprised to find that the planes actually start from quite a low price, but these guys like to show their friends they can afford a top plane, which is great fro the merchants.

The buying bonanza that followed our house move is not yet over. One of the things on the list was a new fridge freezer as well as a dishwasher. There is a suitable space to install them so it makes sense to get them installed now. Apparently the summer is a boom time for fridge sales if the weather is hot, because if the compressor is getting old it has to work harder to keep things cool. Read more »

Did I mention that we have entered marriage meltdown around here?  In one year I will have bought and sold three properties, moved house, moved my Mother, and seen two nieces get married.  I think that is enough stress for anybody.  The next bride is getting married just three days before the New Year holiday, so just as soon as Christmas is over we will be getting everything ready for the big day.  She has been planning this event in  her head for years, and she has ordered some lovely little wedding cameras for all the guests to snap away and take informal shots.   The newlyweds then get the pix developed and add them to the album.

I am now serious about my property investment, I have to be - that investment is vital for supplementing my pension. I own one house that I was living in until recently then I let it out. There was no mortgage on the property so all the capital was tied up in the house and that made the yield very low. Yield in my view, is the return on your equity in the house. I am buying a house to let on the south coast (of England) in which my equity will be £55,000. The rent payable will be £9600 per year, that is 17% return on my investment. But of course there is a mortgage to pay and the repayments will be £7224. Read more »

I have been searching for ages to find a way of integrating Adsense ads into my Wordpress blog posts and pages. Finally I found a free plugin that floats the web page copy around the Adsense ads, it looks attractive and not excessive. You can also use this plugin with other contextual ad networks. Since installing the plugin I have noticed an upward trend in clickthrough rates, which is great news.

There are a lot of plugins and software packages around - paid and free - that promise to improve the appearance of your Adsense ads. I downloaded several widgets and plugins but I could not get any of them to work properly. You can find out how to download the plugin to insert AdSense Ads on your Wordpress Blog, with full download instructions.

My niece has just bought her first car and a few days ago there was a problem when the temperature gauge went to the max completely out of the blue. The cost was unexpected, too. She thought the car would just go along sweetly until the next annual test so we had to find a cheap way to replace it. There is a site called Radiator.com that offers keen pricing on radiators for almost any vehicle you could think of - they have more than 80,000 parts in stock. She owns a Honda and apparently that is the most popular marque in the world. She saved a fortune on her Accord Radiator, and she is more confident about driving the car again.

When you have selected your domain name and purchased the domain, and signed up for your low cost web hosting account you can get started and begin creating your online content. looking at some of your competitors’ professional looking websites, you may start to wonder how your can create a good website. The good news is that you can put up a professional looking website in minutes using the best blogging software, which is Wordpress. Read more »

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Whenever I travel - whether on business or pleasure - I check as much as possible to ensure that I am getting the best deal and value for money. In Florida I have been checking the price of hotels for an upcoming convention and I discovered that there are big savings to be made on this like anything else. Read more »

Yesterday I got an email from the owners of a new ‘paid to post’ site that promises to pay bloggers the whole of the fee paid by an advertiser for a review of their website. You may not be aware that other ‘paid to blog’ sites that offer advertisers the chance to promote their sites on members’ blogs charge as much as 35 per cent for brokering the deal. Read more »

One of the most frustrating things about setting up your house in the way you want it is this. You can spend hours planning the things that you need, work out how to pay for it and then find that the furniture is not in stock. If you are looking for modern furniture that is available now, check out modernlinefurniture.com. And they offer an unusual fourteen day risk free guarantee - you can change your mind on any furniture if it is not suitable!

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I have been a little slow in getting to grips with using the Wordpress post slug box to best effect, maybe the word ’slug’ just put me off! But I have done my homework and this is what I am doing now. You have probably noticed that words appear in the post slug box by default and if you leave them, your post slug will consist of the words that appear in the title of your blog. If your post title is long, this can disadvantage you because the search engines often penalise blog entries with over-long URLs (because they are often used in that way by spammers). Read more »

After I started making my first changes to the Wordpress theme files by using the post options I felt more confident to look for other ways to change the permalinks. I knew that post permalinks show by default in the browser title bar starting with the name of the blog. So every post on your blog will start with the same phrase. It is much better to start with the titles of the individual post: after all that is what your visitor is looking for. Here is the code that I placed on the header file:

<title><?php wp_title(”); ?><?php if(wp_title(’ ‘, false)) { echo ‘ - ‘; } ?>

<?php bloginfo(’name’); ?></title>

<meta name=”description” content=”">

<meta name=”keywords” content=”">

This will ensure that each of your blog posts has a unique title that you have allocated to it. If you do not make this change, your posts will all start with your blog title and the search engines will see these as duplicate pages.

You would be surprised at how many products are on sale under the overall category of home medical supplies. There are so many products that we are all now seeking in an ageing population and many websites have responded to meet the demand. Read more »