Business Improving in Diary

I want to write all about Thursday and Friday just gone but the site I use for hosting my photos isn’t working and I don’t want to write about it without the photos! It was a really fun couple of days though, seeing Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer and Matt Berry record their sitcom House of Fools, then I went on the Coronation Street studio tour; it was so cool to see the interior and exteriors of all the locations, where they filmed for 50 years before moving studios earlier this year. And on Friday night we went to see Noel Fielding so it was a busy couple of days.

But I’ll write all about those when I can get my photos up as I don’t want to post half a story.

I just wanted to write about how the business is going. It’s going well at the moment! In the last week I’ve gained three new customers and have enquiries from two more, I’ve been overwhelmed with admin today.

So, to go with Roxy the rottweiler five times a week, I now also have Joanie the bull mastiff five times a week, plus Loki and Sabre the huskies three times a week. All are ENORMOUS dogs and all are more than a handful. I should never have imagined that this job would be leisurely strolls in the park with well behaved puppies, of course I’m going to be walking dogs that their owners can’t handle. Spending hours every day fighting not to be pulled over by two large and very strong huskies who know they were born to pull.

But they are all beautiful, friendly creatures and it’s a guaranteed £102.50 every week just from those three, not including the customers who use me on an ad-hoc basis. I know it’s still a long way off what I need to be earning, but after two months it’s not going badly and is growing all the time.

The other new customer I have is a lady who’s going on holiday for five days next month and has a cat and 11 chickens which I’m going to be looking after so that should be fun. She says I can keep any eggs that I find too! In the winter, only two of the hens lay but that’s still 10 free eggs over the course of the five days, and they’re free range eggs I’ll have collected myself which is an exciting bonus :o)

Getting there gradually! :o)