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Introducing me..

While some of the info here is also on my profile, I think I need to do a bit of introduction here to put my lenses in context. As I've only just started writing for Squidoo, I'm sure it will all change over time anyway!

I live in a south-coast town in England called Havant, and have been in this area for over 30 years although my origins are south-west London.

I'm 59 years old and my career in IT has spanned the years from when computers were something only the Government, military and universities had, through huge machines and disk drives the size of industrial washing machines that filled airconditioned rooms, up to todays netbooks, laptops and smart phones.

I have a portfolio of online businesses (described below), and blogs and probably spend far too much of every day in front of a screen.

When I can drag myself away and the weather is good, I love to sail, and own two dinghies, one single, one double hander, although one of them may be sold over the winter. I race at my club (Langstone SC) and also sail for fun in both Chichester and Langstone Harbours.

I've been a pagan for many years now, and future lens ideas may tell the story of how I reached this spiritual path. I love to cook, I grow a few things in my garden like herbs, tomatoes and strawberries in season. I have a grape vine which gives me variable crops depending on how good a summer it is. 2008 was brilliant, 2009 best forgotten about - maybe 2010 will see the birth of chateau Langstone! Ok, on to my lenses

I'm also a motor racing fan and I love driving - fast! When my husband and I were still together he bought me a fantastic gift - my Caterham Seven sports car which I nicknamed Barbarella. In 2005, over 30 Seven owners put our cars in containers and shipped them out to Houston, Texas for the holiday of a lifetime. Over 23 days we drove all the way to San Francisco. We finished the holiday with a track day at Infineon Raceway, before our cars went back into containers for the journey home. Sadly John and I have split up, but according to UK law, the car will stay mine as a gift during marriage - sorry John!

My 25 latest lenses

- in date order, most recent first

My current goal is to have enough quality lenses to make Giant Squid before my birthday on April 19 2010 - I'm currently lagging a little behind and not quite on target, but I want to produce quality work every time.
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My networking businesses

Send Out Cards- Send real cards from your PC. You choose your card, personalise your message and they do the printing and the mailing, you could save a lot of money on going to the shops to buy your cards. Take out a retail account or be a distributor - your choice.

Send Out Cards have recently introduced a great new range of retail options. Now you can experience this great service for yourself at a very reasonable cost but you might love it so much you want to start as a distributor - and it is a great business. why not click through today, and check it all out for yourself.

Cashbackcard - If you are in the UK, you can get cashback if you shop with any card in Cashbackcard's online mall. Next step is to apply for the re-loadable debit card which will give you even more cashback when you use it to pay in place of your normal bank debit/credit card. To be a member of CBC, there is a one-off once in a lifetime £20, but you can pay this from the cashback you accumulate if you wish. If you want to promote this as a business, you'll need to pay it up front and get 'qualified' which will make you an Independent Promoter. The commission plan is great, you will make money from everyone you bring into your team whether they are promoters or not. I was in the pre-launch at the beginning of 2011 and can say honestly that this works, and if you get in now you stand to make, and save a LOT of money.

Just recently I joined a brand new social network - SWOM - I'm very quickly building a network of people who can help me market my businesses and who have interesting businesses themselves. I can also put backlinks to this lensography in my profile there and comment on my news wall if I create a new lens or update an old one - it's kind of like the best of Twitter and Facebook combined, and in that respect I predict it is going to grow in success this year. It also PAYS you to find new members! Join SWOM here

And the rest? Please visit my business website for loads of other exciting moneymaking opportunities, network marketing training and ways to promote YOUR business.

My blogs

Pushing the Angry ButtonI've had a checquered kind of career. I started out wanting to be a journalist, I did the training then decided to marry a civil engineer who was involved in road, bridge and tunnel projects all over the UK.

For a few years, I did any temp or semi-permanent office job I could get where we were living including working in the motorway site office for the M8 eastern section (this was in the early 1970's) - that was surprisingly really good fun.

I started and never finished an Open University course but got the knowledge I needed to get in at the infancy of the IT industry and saw it all the way from magnetic stripe cards and punched paper tape through mainframe computers that took up a whole enormous room and needed air-conditioning to the PC on every office desktop.

I suppose it was inevitable really that I would end up writing again - these are my blogs.

My Greetings to You - the business blog

Pushing the Angry Button - the rant

It's Free to Earn - My IBS business blog which talks about businesses that cost little or nothing to get started.

I did have a further food-related blog, but it was on Today.com who are supposed to pay you for blogging. Since I've been with them they have constantly moved the goalposts so I've never received one penny from them and they are now trying to steal my copyright so I'm moving my blog elsewhere.

And did I mention ebay?

I've been selling on ebay for several years now.

How much have on sale tends to wax and wane with the other things I'm doing, but it is always worth taking a look and seeing what's there - as I write there isn't a lot as I've been concentrating on Squidoo!

I sell collectables - glass and china, tableware, books and some silverware

The collectables come from a variety of local sources such as car boot sales, auctions and charity shops.

This is the link to my ebay shop and you will also be able to get to any auction items I have on sale.

Names to look for - Bunnykins, Poole Pottery, Portmeirion, Wedgwood, Caithness and Carltonware.

The pic is of a Poole Delphis bowl - plenty of it about, every piece individual and very collectable

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    JolynnMoss May 21, 2011 @ 8:52 am | delete
    Hi Jenny,

    Very nice lensography. You are definitely into a lot of different things. How do you keep up with it all? I guess I will have to write a lensography myself, Thanks for sharing!
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    tonyleather May 8, 2011 @ 8:01 am | delete
    Jenny.
    Tony Leather here. Could you tell me if it is OK to post stuff as lenses on Sqidoo that you have posted elsewhere, like triond, or does everything have to be exclusive to them? Also, I could do with your letting me know what the differences are between the two sites, in terms of views, potential earnings and so on. I joined here because you recommended it, but I would like a bit more of a clue about it before I go full bore at creating lenses. I want to get more recognition for my work, and you seemed to suggest that this site offered that.
    If you want to contact me on my own e-mail address, It is tonyh.leather@ntlworld.com.
    I really do appreciate any help or advice you could put my way? Thanks.
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    thesuccess Sep 29, 2010 @ 4:36 am | delete
    Hi Jenny you seem to be following a similar path to me, IT, eBay, IM and Squidoo!
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    whitemoss Apr 11, 2010 @ 5:31 am | delete
    Nice lensography- what wide interests you have!
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    Tipi Mar 25, 2010 @ 5:03 pm | delete
    Hi Jenny! ~ Thanks for visiting Tipi's ...I Believe in angels. Its in local because I'm only sharing about the angelic encounters I have had in Fargo, ND. I suppose I could put it in spirituality.

    Nice lensography!
    Susie
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What I've been reading....

I read a LOT. Always 2 or 3 books on the go. One to read large hunks of - usually fiction or autobiography, a couple more to dip into. There are a few books that I read over and over again, things I have loved since childhood, and those will be the subject of another lens.

These are the books that I have read most recently
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What I'm reading right now 

Arthurian Legend brought alive

Last Enchantment (The Merlin Trilogy)

Last Enchantment (The Merlin Trilogy)

by: Mary Stewart

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It was a book on the same subject - Mists of Avalon - that set my feet on the pagan path. Mary Stewart follows the same basic story based on Geoffrey of Monmouth's Arthurian writings. There are differences in characters between the two books, and I would have to read the original Monmouth story to see where they diverge.

'The Last Enchantment' is the last book of Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy and so I am really reading the wrong one first, but this was lent to me by a like-minded friend. In this book, Arthur becomes king and fulfils the destiny seen for him by Merlin. Britain is at a turning point. Roman influence has declined, the Saxons are pushing for domination, but still the Celtic tribes keep their strongholds and the Old People and their pagan gods and goddesses are not forgotten.

In Mary Stewart's books, Morgause (rather than Morgaine) is the sister with the greater enchantress powers, and the one who led Arthur unknowing into the incestuous relationship from which sprang Mordred. I am missing the references to Avalon as a real place and a training school for priests and priestesses of the Goddess.

On the plus side, this telling of King Arthur's life is closer to the historical figure he might have been.

I would urge anyone interested in this subject to read both books and make up your own mind.

Here is the Amazon UK link for The Last Enchantment

Here is the Amazon UK link for Mists of Avalon

My Greetings to You 

he business blog

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Pushing the Angry Button 

A rant about living in Britain today

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