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TCM_3

Happy Bank Holiday everyone!

Like myself, you're working too! The joys of self employment!

Today, we are in buisness 3 years and it has been the toughest 3 years (even tougher than divorce!) that I have ever known. I have just closed off April's accounts and with the rates and insurance hitting me at the one time I have spent more than I have earned for the first time in a long time and I am beating myself up something shocking.

Boot up backside is required today otherwise I will sit and mope all day!

Hope everyone well
T xx

GreyhoundAngel

Ey' up Gang.....Hope you've all been having a good Bank Holiday, and hello to all the newbies

GreyhoundAngel wrote: »

Got an interview tomorrow, for some part-time casual work – Have been asked to go in for orientation this week and told to bring "ID" and Bank info - Not quite sure if that means I've got it or not

I’m also waiting to hear if I have been selected for interviews from a few others that I’ve applied to. - Still waiting to hear from these, along with the new ones applied for this week :rolleyes:

Tasks I meant to have done last week .....:

[STRIKE]PT PAYE / Temp work hunting [/STRIKE]- Applications sent (but an Ongoing task until secured)
Look at Freelance site options (Services Business side) - On Hold atm
Revise and revamp my range of Business Flyers (Both Businesses) - In Progress
Draft mailing / distribution lists (various) for the flyers (Both Businesses) - In Progress
Mind mapping for ideas on targeting “less saturated” markets (Both Businesses) - In Progress
Work on basic pages for website (Both Businesses) - Not Started
Look for new / more ideas for products (Gift Business side) - Not Started
Source new / more “materials & stock” (Gift Business side) - Not Started

Also still waiting to hear from a potential Client I met with last week, to see if I've got the contracts I spoke to them about.

Bonus though ..... A company I made a speculative enquiry to ageeeeeeeees ago ... contacted me last week offering some work - I now have 15 Assignments booked in for them during May (Having had to take & Pass some online tests plus and taking part in 2 “Telephone interview” type things :eek:) I'm hoping that a good job on these ones, will lead to lots of regular work from them. Plus, I can then think about applying to other similar companies for work - with a recent track record under my belt hopefully improving my chances.

So rough "Business Plans" for this week are....

1) Continue with TEMP Search
2) Research similar Companies to canvass for work & Draft a contact list / Approach Letter - ready to go next month.
3) Snag some more MS jobs
4) Avon Deliveries & new Catalogue rounds
5) Continue to Revise and revamp my range of Business Flyers for Services
6) Continue to Draft mailing / distribution lists (various) for the flyers for Services
7) Mind mapping for ideas on targeting “less saturated” markets for Services

Think that will do for now, see what else developes (like last week :rotfl:)

G:A x

Essex-girl_2

Good Morning Everyone

I have been sooo lazy over the last few days, was ill thurs & fri (proper ill not just skiving ) & I decided (quite wrongly) to give myself the weekend off as it was Bank Holiday, the weather was so lovely Saturday that I couldnt bear working, however it then turned horrible Sun & Mon so I really could of got on with some work but we then went out a lot and spent lots of money :eek: so I really am unhappy with myself.

However, the rest of this week I have the house to myself school times. OH is normaly around from 11am as he works nights and I get easily distracted by other people but this week there is noone else to blame so no excuses.

I cant actually see my desk as its covered with crap - have done half of it and when Ive finshed this post the rest will be done - loads of shredding will then be put into appropiate piles that I will through today. Have a massive to do list but I am going to work in half hour batches & get though it.

I really want to get a lot done so later tonight can list some ebay items which will replace the money we wasted this weekend. I am also thinking of a motivational/goal memo board to put on the wall in front of the desk. It will have things like pictures of florida on there, a nice bathroom suite - all things that I want and it will remind me why i am working. I will also put the tax bill on there :rotfl:I really do need the motivation.

Anyway I have waffled way too much today, am going to put the kettle on make a coffee and start the first half hour.

Hope you all have productive days.

Purpleroses

Morning!

My desk is also buried under papers and swatches and booklets! When I come back from the Post Office I really need to tidy this desk! So todays to do list:

• call tailor
• tidy office
• do more of stock check
• clear emails
• reply to e-mails that came from last night

Have a good day all!

TCM_3

Morning all

Had a good trading day on Holiday Monday so closed up last night being a happy bunny!

Boot up backside needed again today for motivation -OH grumpy and i can't pretend to be superwoman anymore! My cape needs repaired. On a good front, I did the compare websites for home insurance mentioned on here and have managed to knock £150 off my renewal!

Good news!

starxtrouble

For all you writers:

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.
Then one fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of mouse should never be meese,
You may find a lone mouse or a whole nest of mice,
But the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
The cow in the plural may be cows or kine,
But a bow if repeated is never called bine,
And the plural of vow is vows, never vine.

If I speak of a foot and you show me your feet,
And I give you a boot would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth, and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

If the singular's this and the plural is these,
Should the plural of kiss ever be nicknamed keese?
Then one may be that and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.

We speak of a brother, and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren,
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine she, shis and shim,

So the English, I think, you all will agree,
Is the queerest language you ever did see.
(Anne Umphrey)


Hints on Pronunciation for Foreigners

By TSW

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through?
Well done! And now you wish perhaps
To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird;
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead -
For goodness sake don't call it 'deed'.
Watch out for meat and great and threat.
They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.

A moth is not a moth in mother,
nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose -
Just look them up - and goose and choose.

And cord and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart -
Come come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive,
I'd mastered it when I was five!

and one more for you:

Dearest creature in creation
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.

I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear;
Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.
Pray, console your loving poet,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!
Just compare heart, hear and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word.
Sword and sward, retain and Britain
(Mind the latter how it’s written).

Made has not the sound of bade,
Say — said, pay — paid, laid but plaid.
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as vague and ague,
But be careful how you speak,
Say: gush, bush, steak, streak, break, bleak,
Previous, precious, fuchsia, via,
Recipe, pipe, studding-sail, choir;
Woven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe.

Say, expecting fraud and trickery:
Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore,
Branch, ranch, measles, topsails, aisles,
Missiles, similes, reviles.
Wholly, holly, signal, signing,
Same, examining, but mining,
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far.
From “desire”: desirable — admirable from “admire”,
Lumber, plumber, bier, but brier,
Topsham, brougham, renown, but known,
Knowledge, done, lone, gone, none, tone,
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel.

The poem was created by the Dutch writer and schoolteacher Gerard Nolst Trenit! and first appeared, under the title of De Chaos, in his English textbook Drop Your Foreign Accent in 1920.

TCM_3

:rotfl:Brilliant Star!!!!!:rotfl:

Thank you!!

Purpleroses

lol star thats brilliant!

starxtrouble

I cant take all the credit, I have just reposted what someone else had posted on a language forum I'm on, but I thought we'd find them amusing on here

starxtrouble

I emailed this to a friend of mine who works in a translation / media company... she told me it reminded her of some one she worked with (non native English speaker) who didnt know what a 'swine' (they had a lot of articles about swine flu) and thought it must be a female swan!