Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

TBH, little kids, age of running round squealing as opposed to shouting, I think its impressive they managed to keep them in until 8;15am on a holiday weekend. They've probably been running around squealing inside for a good couple of hours by then!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

TBH, little kids, age of running round squealing as opposed to shouting, I think its impressive they managed to keep them in until 8;15am on a holiday weekend. They've probably been running around squealing inside for a good couple of hours by then!

No, I'd have heard it.
Already "rescued" one of their easter eggs from the front driveway; they'd put eggs out for the kids to find and somehow one had got overlooked and rolled into the driveway, a target for seagulls, so I picked that up and propped it against their front door so the gulls didn't see it. Then I ripped out the "2 for 1" and "Kids go free" vouchers from this week's local paper and just handed it over to them in case they were planning on going to any of those attractions.

They're from frogland, by car... must have cost a fortune to bring 2 cars this far.

JonnyBravo

misskool wrote: »

OH and me have been discovering tesco double the difference. We are on the way to being stocked up on dishwasher tablets....

Great innit? :T


Even storing stuff in the loft now.
Good ol' Mr T. :rotfl:

michaels

We had lamb twice last week but there wasn't any on the shelf our last 2 visits which was a shame as I had my sister and her family today and we were hoping to show off with lamb...however we did manage J20 (effective £1 for 4), roast chicken (effective half price), potato salad (potatoes 1/3 off, salad cream and mayo effectively free, scallions 50% off), cumberland sausages (free), tomatoes (40% off) a nice bottle of wolf blass wine (51p) and melon and grapes (50% off) and Magnums (effectively -5p each) for afters.

And off course washed up using fairly liquid (50% off) and ran the dishwasher with All-in-one tabs (£3 per packet)

:beer: Mr T.

Nikkster wrote: »

I think there will be a lot of Finest NZ Racks of Lamb for dinner today:beer:

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

If tomterm reads this ... too lazy to PM him .... hubs new ad program.... been in a few days, it's working out at about $4/CPM, so not too shabby for free money on top of the other free money it generates. I'm getting about 30k views/month (last 30 days), so that'd be an extra $120/month projected.

Sorry, didn't read this until today... not been in much for the last fortnight*. That sounds really good for you It's nice getting free money

I tended to go for very niche keywords, aiming to get only 10 views a month on some of them... basically Amazon products... and so the panda thing really harmed me. Because it was precisely these techniques that Google !!!!ed around with.

To put this in perspective, if I got up to 30,000 views a month on hubpages with the keywords I targeted, I would have been able to quit my day job:D

I didn't get anywhere near that, and Google whacked my traffic, so the new ad program won't help me much at all. Getting less than 1,000 hits a month now

But it's great news for writers like you that are good at getting large amounts of hits.:T

* I've been writing a novel. 35,000 words in, since the 7th. I feel tired. I wouldn't normally write this fast, but there is a competition from a decent publisher (one that almost never accepts unsolicited mss) that opens next month... I need something to submit to it.

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

* I've been writing a novel. 35,000 words in, since the 7th. I feel tired. I wouldn't normally write this fast, but there is a competition from a decent publisher (one that almost never accepts unsolicited mss) that opens next month... I need something to submit to it.

I can't put myself up for inspection; I can't write like that. I feel unworthy. I prefer to write and hide... and see what money comes my way.



That's why I can't "be in business" easily - having to go from "I do this quite well for myself" to actually having to meet somebody else's expectations. I think, mostly, others are grateful when they ask anybody to do anything for them .... and maybe I'm just 1000% over-critical of myself. But it causes me stress and anxiety, so I take the easy road.

Gotta write more hubs though! I'll keep an eye out for one of their challenges, to motivate me + they're good for getting/building traffic, especially if you combine two things: [1] Do the challenge, hopefully it's part of a Hubmob thing too so you can create an internal link from the Hubmob thread about the challenge [2] Join the 30 hubs in 30 days challenge and post a link to each hub in there too. I also like to use flickr images, get to post a link on the photographer's flickr saying "I used it here...." AND ... a sneaky bit, if you immediately edit that you can change the nofollow to dofollow.... no idea if that makes any difference, but it takes 2 seconds so I do it anyway.

tomterm8

I guess I'm just used to getting rejected. I write and submit one new short story a week to a commercial market (it may be anything from a token payment market, to pro). Ray Bradbury's method. Basically, doing that, getting work rejected goes from a Big Thing, to quite a small thing, and then eventually a game. You see if you can beat the number of rejections you got last year. If you can, you win. If I get this novel finished, I'll probably get rejected from a big publisher, and it should be worth extra points

Not sure I follow you with the flckr thing... I thought those were nofollow links?

( see HEINLEIN'S FIVE RULES FOR WRITING:

1. You must write.
2. You must finish what you write.
3. You must refrain from rewriting, except to editorial order.
4. You must put the work on the market.
5. You must keep the work on the market until it is sold. )

LydiaJ

Just found this on Rightmove. What's with all the SSTC-available-SSTC-available-etc?? And why does it say it's got 4 bedrooms when the floorplan only shows 3 (if you can call the third one a bedroom at 7'8" x 6'6")?

Kids begged to be taken to eat out for Easter. We don't go very often - I think the last time we went somewhere with waitress service was when my dad took us when we were visiting my mum in hospital, and that was ages ago. DD suggested Frankie & Benny's because she'd enjoyed a school friend's birthday there. So we went. I was well impressed with the service for kids. They handed them an activity pack each as we came in, which kept them busy and quiet and sitting still for all the waiting bits. They did really well at telling the waitress what they wanted to order, too. DD was very grown-up, smiling up from her menu and saying "I'll have the sausage, mash and beans, please." I was v chuffed when the waitress commented at the end that they were very well mannered.

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

I guess I'm just used to getting rejected. I write and submit one new short story a week to a commercial market (it may be anything from a token payment market, to pro). Ray Bradbury's method. Basically, doing that, getting work rejected goes from a Big Thing, to quite a small thing, and then eventually a game. You see if you can beat the number of rejections you got last year. If you can, you win. If I get this novel finished, I'll probably get rejected from a big publisher, and it should be worth extra points

Not sure I follow you with the flckr thing... I thought those were nofollow links?

( see HEINLEIN'S FIVE RULES FOR WRITING:

1. You must write.
2. You must finish what you write.
3. You must refrain from rewriting, except to editorial order.
4. You must put the work on the market.
5. You must keep the work on the market until it is sold. )

Ah... so you just keep annoying the market until somebody buys from pity. Great idea!

Re flickr, once you add a comment there's an "edit" button and if you hit it you can change the link tag to dofollow.... so I just do. As I said, no idea/never researched if it makes any difference. But I do have a specific tracker set up in hubs so I can see how much traffic I get from flickr and people do bother clicking through. Not checked Analytics to see if those clicks have ever earnt me anything.... I work on the basis that the top 10 income streams will always let themselves be known to me and not to worry about the small stuff that might be happening in the background.

Probably my first (really cr4ppy it was) hub is still turning in £80 or so every year. Not bad for 20 minutes' work about 3 years ago.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Just found this on Rightmove. What's with all the SSTC-available-SSTC-available-etc?? And why does it say it's got 4 bedrooms when the floorplan only shows 3 (if you can call the third one a bedroom at 7'8" x 6'6")?

If 7'8"x6'6" isn't a bedroom ... where am I sitting right now and typing this?

LydiaJ wrote: »

Kids begged to be taken to eat out for Easter. We don't go very often - I think the last time we went somewhere with waitress service was when my dad took us when we were visiting my mum in hospital, and that was ages ago. DD suggested Frankie & Benny's because she'd enjoyed a school friend's birthday there. So we went. I was well impressed with the service for kids. They handed them an activity pack each as we came in, which kept them busy and quiet and sitting still for all the waiting bits. They did really well at telling the waitress what they wanted to order, too. DD was very grown-up, smiling up from her menu and saying "I'll have the sausage, mash and beans, please." I was v chuffed when the waitress commented at the end that they were very well mannered.

I've never even seen a F&B. Is that "proper waitress service"? Or is it "waitress comes to table, takes order, delivers food, takes away plates, delivers bill, expects some gratitude"? I've never had proper waitress service, just the latter description in indian restaurants.