Interesting as one thing I learned when I ran pre-school is that children settle best when their key worker looks like their mum or main carer. We do bond best with the earliest good caregiver and so are likely to prefer people like them. As the caregiver is usually the same race and ethnicity then that would figure. It does in a way, come down to…[Read more]

Also make sure you have money earning apps on your phone and a penny jar in the kitchen.

Well this is something interesting to store up to tell my mixed race (English/Jamaican) grandson. He will need to know his roots. As for scammers. Most are stupid. The other day one got onto my facebook as messaged me as my friend. It was rather amusing as I was actually on the phone to my friend at the time and waited for the request for money…[Read more]

I am new too and would not want to lose my image copyrights if I use my own photos so I too would like an answer to this question. Surely other users cannot use the photos we upload? That would be a big unfair. I am not posting pictures of the cat till I am sure what will happen to them!

That’s funny I just mentioned baking soda for teeth on another post. I have never used it for this reason, but it brings up the top of my stove a treat and I suppose both are different kinds of enamel that you want to whiten! I think, given the way it cleans the stove top and also my windows and now my friend and daughter say they use it in their…[Read more]

I do not know much about this, but the other day I was sick the moment my toothpaste touched my mouth and I still have not found a brand that doesn’t make me feel ill. Somewhere I read you can just use bicarbonate of soda. (Baking soda.) I am planning to research that.

I am glad you mentioned the server is slow for everyone as I thought it was just me! I hope they can sort that in time. For now I will just enjoy reading and posting seeing as I am new and the first payday is a long way off.

I agree it is good for any woman to have a career. Nobody knows what kind of hand life will deal them and the possibility of two incomes is helpful for any marriage, but I was a stay at home mum and I can tell you that was in itself a job and deserved as much respect as any outside job I had. These days BOTH man and wife should work, contribute…[Read more]

I guess we have met before then on MyLot! I think the one really good thing Bubblews did was get people wanting to write. People who had never written any kind of article before found something to say even if it was what they had for breakfast and that kind of thing can develop into an appetite for composing other, better things. I am back looking…[Read more]

There is a lot more you can do. I would like to write an article on this myself. As we did not have a T.V as my kids were growing up I have a lot of experience! One thing I did was create a craft box with all sorts of things to make things with and paint and brushes and glue and junk. If it would work to make something, into the craft box it went.…[Read more]

I have a lovely story to tell about my son. His caricatures have gone all over the world now. He is a sought after artist. At art school, a tramp asked him to do a caricature and tore it up saying he was hopeless. Instead of taking this as defeat as even a tramp thought his work was rubbish he determined to become a brilliant caricaturist and he…[Read more]

Well, my heart having been broken, I can tell you that the love of God and time mended it. I think we all have at least one time of life where things fall apart. You do not forget, but you can always be grateful if there were some good times. One way I got through was to tell myself I was not going to forget or reject the good times because…[Read more]

I am confused. You have a beautiful neighbor and lied to her. Now you want to tell her you love her and you lied because you were/are so smitten. Oh boy. How would I react if I were the lady?

I think the best thing is to buy her a big bunch of flowers and tell her you do like her but you want to respect her space. If she is interested all well…[Read more]

It is so important to be good to our friends and neighbours. I have brilliant people living by me and we all do stuff like send each other cards at Christmas. My next door neighbour is a real friend and we even ring each other up if it is too cold to go out. A small kindness can make someone’s day, especially if they are feeling down or live…[Read more]

I am convinced that marketing plays a big role and wish I had the confidence to market my eBooks the way some of the people who wrote the rubbish I have downloaded did! In one way though, it is nice people are writing and an eBook is a good way to get a message out if you have something worthwhile to say. I taught myself how to write one by…[Read more]

Most of us experience at least some of the things you outline at some time, but as you get older it is important to realise that self-care is vital and that you are worth the effort. Living alone, I have to be really careful to take care of me and one of the hardest things is to have a proper diet, but this is essential or you go downhill. It is…[Read more]

I agree that sleep is very important. Many years ago now I had a bout of severe insomnia and was literally going mad. The doctor kept refusing to give me sleeping pills as he said they were addictive. Finally he gave in and I slept and began to recover in more ways than one. He only gave me three pills as I remember. It was the first night that…[Read more]

A useful article. I don’t think I ever met anyone who really made money from the PTC sites and as I think I said somewhere else on this site today, they are so boring. The hardest thing is when you have several niches you can use and want to use all of them. I am sure it is better to stick to one thing. Every day I tell myself I am going to use…[Read more]