You bump into some funny people sometimes, don’t you? Well…anyway, I do. Like the trade show magician I met the other week. Now, he had some stories…

What I liked about Gerald was his attitude: he was easy going, fun and yet he wore a suit and looked like he probably worked in finance. I met him in the supermarket, after he bumped into me and left me with a sore hip. Although he couldn’t make the lump on it go away, he was good enough to talk to me for a while about his job, and how much he loved being self-employed too. Here’s what Gerald came out with.

…one would be keeping all your receipts for your year end accounts so you can claim money back.

1) You’re never too old to become self-employed. Well, unless you’re elderly and infirm and you can’t leave the house. But even then you could do some freelance writing or something like that. The point is, where there’s a will there’s a way. And Gerald would know – he had only in the last year become self-employed!

2) The first couple of years aren’t going to be as great as you think. Probably. The bummer, of course, is that you’ll be paying your National Insurance tax and the like during this time. It’s a requirement, you know. But then again, as soon as you start getting jobs – whatever that may involve – things start to work out in your favour. Especially if you’re working from home and not paying any business rates, yahoo!

3) There are loads of ways to save on money: one would be keeping all your receipts for your year end accounts so you can claim money back. Another would be buying second-hand equipment from a car-boot sale instead of online. After all, if you do that and your amazing business ideas doesn’t work out then you haven’t lost as much money as you otherwise would have!

See the video for words on success in self-employment!

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I stumbled on some information the other day regarding paying of debts that I simply have to share. I hope that this information helps someone and if it does please let me know.

First, talk to your creditors. As your creditors want you to pay off your debt, they will be open to talking with you and arranging ways to help make it easier to pay them, such as flexible payment plans.

Second, know your rights as a debtor. This is especially true if you are being harassed by debt collectors. Review the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to learn your rights, as well as proper procedures collection agencies must follow.

Third, pay bills automatically. Set up automatic bill payment at your bank. This service is often free, and can help you avoid late payment fees on bills and debt.

Fourth, save automatically. Make saving easy by having your bank deduct money regularly from your paycheck and depositing it into a savings account. Every little bit counts, so even a few dollars from every check can add up and help you chip away at debt.

Fifth, think about refinancing. Depending on your situation, it may be beneficial to refinance. Talk to bankers and research your options.

Sixth, when buying things, pay only with cash. So if you need to purchase some part for your car or banner stands, pay for them using cash. This will help you avoid incurring more debt, and will help you be more careful in spending.

Seventh, be creative with debt payments. Your creditors, especially small businesses, family and friends, may be open to accepting payment through barter of goods and services.

Give these ideas a try and see what happens, chances are you will be out of debt faster than you think. Once out of debt please try to stay there.

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While observing the posts about religious communities in the UK and their efforts to prevent rioting and looting, I was astonished by the acts of Sikhs while protecting their temple from incoming rioting groups. Hundreds of people, united by their religion, were standing against violent thugs with masks destroying what the UK has achieved with hard work and law obedience. However, it is my conviction that religion is not all about believing in God - it is an attempt to unite people, to bring them closer together and to provide them with the spiritual facilities for personal identification.

However, while I saw Sikhs and Muslims being united against the terror in the country, I saw no Christian group making the same effort. It seems that the British people are more interested in anything - including things such as horse equine claims compensation, rather than religious unity. The Christians in the country have almost forgotten their identity and while many of them are identifying themselves as Christians, what is the percentage of their life that they are ready to dedicate to each other in order to unite themselves in protecting basic human values? I believe such percentage is so low that measuring it would be a task with no completion.

I am not claiming that people should inevitably believe in God as a spiritual being guiding their lives - however, I do believe they can learn more about human dignity, relationships and common values by following simple religious principles. This is what UK misses the most - if there had been more religious awareness among Christians in this country, life could have been different and people could have been happier, with more values to rely on and with others to support them.

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Maybe I am getting old, maybe I am just sensitive to noise or maybe I just need to get our more but what it is with the volume of music in clubs these days? After a night out with a group of students dressed up as garden gnomes last night, a nasty hangover and a few embarrassing photos is the least of my worries. I actually think I have noise induced hearing loss.

We had a great time, no complaints there. We drank shots from the breasts of a German beer maid, we swam around the city fountain and we went fishing in a drain with a tin can attached to a piece of string. All was well between places but inside, my dear god, we could not hear a thing we tried to say to each other. We tried shouting, sign language and in the end resorted to texting each other just so we knew what to order at the bar for out next drinks.

All I’m trying to say, bar owners and DJ’s of the world is; turn the music down a bit. Having a night out with all of my zany mates is about having a laugh with each other, sharing jokes and taking the piss right out of each. Unfortunately, there is no piss taking to be done when the music is turned up so loud that I can’t hear myself think never mind speak.

There’s really not that much fun in texting someone who is standing right next to you and you just end up looking like one of those losers who updates his Facebook status telling everyone he’s having a toppa night.

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The thing is, for me at least, loneliness is something that can be avoided. Often, people who are lonely cite the world as being against them, but in fact there are ways to make sure that the damage is limited. Such as:

1) When you start to feel lonely, call up it support london or someone, anyone. Call up a friend, it doesn’t matter who. But DO call someone, or otherwise the loneliness will go on forever. You can be its master and kick it into shape, you know.

2) If you’re lonely, then there is always a way to take your mind off it. You could read a book, watch a film, listen to music or create some art. Even if you’re not artistic then it’d be a great start, right? All of these things are better than doing nothing whatsoever and making the loneliness even worse.

3) You can always write things down to make sense of them. If you feel pretty depressed then writing things down is a great way of working out why. At the end of it you’ll also realise that time has flown for a change, which means that the day is moving faster and hopefully you feel less lonely than you did.

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But much as I love hunting for magazines, nothing will ever be able to compare to the first time I went and found what I was looking for: what I simply had to have.

I remember the first time I went to find a radio control car magazine. That day at school I had seen someone else’s copy and marvelled at it. Then and there I had said to myself that as soon as I got out of school I would go and buy my own copy. Yes, oh yes: I would become a radio control car enthusiast!

Only it wasn’t there…I went through all the sections, before finding that, according to the shop assistant they were all sold out.

I was about to leave the shop, my eyes focussed through the windows on the running shop on the other side of the street, when I realized that the shop assistant was standing there smiling.

“Guess what I have,” she said, and pulled a magazine out. My magazine! The one I had been waiting for for at least 7 hours!

“It’s yours,” she said, and that was it. I paid her the money, thanked her – after I had told her off for being really mean – and became an enthusiast after all.

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Men love women; they find many things attractive and alluring about a woman. These have to do with not only their physical body but how a woman carries herself. Here are some things that men absolutely love about women.

A man loves woman’s smile. There is something incredibly mesmerizing about a woman when she smiles. A man’s knees will shake just at the smile of a lovely woman.

A woman’s voice completely can drive a man crazy. How a woman speaks to a man with her voice thrills him. A variety of voices are liked, some men like smooth voices others like a little rough but either way the voice is very important to a man.

The eyes of a woman are a mystery. If a woman looks eye to eye to a man, then he is trapped. Her eyes are reflective of who she is and her genuine feelings.

A woman being vulnerable also attracts a man. Even though men like women to be independent, however sometimes knowing that your woman really needs you makes a man truly feel like a man.

Then there is always the physical attributes which men find very attractive more than anything. We have to admit that men find women attractive in the following manner 70% physical and 30% brains and attitude. Women know this fact but women also know that men can be happy with them the way they are if their other attributes attract men. Women have to be confident in who she is and her looks. Confident women are always attractive to men because these women are easier to handle than palliative care daventry.

These are the traits men find attractive in women. All men have different views but to be realistic, they will always find the above mentioned as a part of their list.

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This happened to me just the other day. I was standing at the train station when a tall man with beady eyes appeared and proceeded to pull out his paper.

And read it in the most strange way imaginable.

And I mean STRANGE.

The man had his legs crossed in that frustratingly camp way that professors do, and was holding the newspaper – and I kid you not – less than 2cm in front of his face. He’d scan left and right before nodding, sort of as if to say “I’ve read you, you’re in my head now, ha!”

I hated him. I hated him. I really, really hated him. People who do stuff like this, who refuse to get eye tests even though they literally can’t live without them, get my goat BIGTIME!

So please, I don’t care if you’re only looking for Electricians London in the paper, or wanting to read a novel: if you’re practically blind then do yourself and me a favour and get your eyes tested. And don’t even think about driving a car again until you have!

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It really doesn’t matter what you do: painting, writing, reporting, engineering. Out there, somewhere, is the scam artist to end all scam artists, waiting to take your enthusiasm and turn it into a profit that you will never see.

My friend Helen will not stop banging on about it, so in the interest of living a peaceful existence with much less hassle, I have agreed to write a blog post about it. Just remember, it’s Helen, not me.

1) The scammers are evil, and they will stop at nothing to convince you that it is a real job. So my advice is this: when you reply to an ad and get a similarly polite – enthusiastic, even – reply back, beware. Read that email until you are blue in the face to make sure it is legitimate, and even better…

2) …Do a Google search on that letter: this is the only true way to make sure it’s not a scam…Providing other people have posted the letter online, of course.

3) Never work for free: if they say they want three or four samples, then obviously that’s a no-no too. But it’s amazing the amount of people who WILL actually write the samples. Hard to believe but it happens every single day..

4) The phone is there for a reason, so use it: there’s no harm in you picking up the phone and actually talking to a real person at Graphic and Art Supplies London, or wherever it is. If they suddenly aren’t too keen on the idea then wait a minute, you need to start thinking What’s going on here, then?

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Things peaked at an all-time low when I was sixteen and I went through this Incredible Hulk like period of needing chocolate all the time. Then, weirdly, one day it all just stopped. To this day I don’t know what happened with that. Who knows, perhaps medical science will one day have an answer for me? Until then I’ll just have to learn to live with the memories…

The thing is, even though I am no longer an addict, I do sometimes still fall off the wagon. So for this reason I recently stopped eating chocolate completely. It’s been two months now and I haven’t had anything with cocoa in it, not even hot chocolate!

And it’s working wonders, you know: I get less headaches, have more energy, and generally have better skin. Not surprising really, considering all the chemicals and stuff in chocolate, but still, I’ve been quite impressed. Even the girl in my local apple mac repair london said she’d noticed a difference, and that was something: her glasses are about an inch thick!

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