
The level of influence one has to somebody close is in direct and inverse proportion to the closeness of that relationship.
As you will know if you have been following the blog I am co-writing a book at the moment. Tentatively called “The Bootstrapping Book – How to start up a business from nothing” (Catchy title I know) it comprises ten chapters with various ideas for getting started in your own business without having to buy stock, rent a place to conduct your business or, in essence, put money down.
“I’m sorry, we’ve just changed all the policies around that, you’ll have to call back in a few weeks” said the person at the Spanish embassy, promptly hanging up.
Great. I should be used to this by now, as it seems every time I get to grips with some aspect of the big move to Spain, someone changes the rules back in Spain!

For many years working as an estate agent in the Spanish property market a 16 hour day was considered for wimps. 18 hours a day 7 days a week and no holidays was the norm. We were so busy that we literally had no time to build a business and therefore when things slowed down of course the business didn’t work too well.
Looking for your Facebook Comments
After years of having to manage rather nonsensical spam comments on posts congratulating me on my excellent knowledge of the subject, asking me why it didn’t work on their browser and mostly not even referring to the article, today I have installed the Facebook Comments plugin you can find here.