Happy New Year!
I've made a fairly good start despite the first week of the year beginning with a Bank Holiday. Scotland started with TWO bank holidays!
Many of my clients are "of riper years" and my first of 2011 told me that Bank Holidays didn't mean anything to her, so could she have a lesson on Monday 3rd?
And so she did!
I already had several bookings for January, made back in December, so I was looking forward to a busy week. But it's the season of coughs 'n' sneezes and - sure enough - a couple of clients cancelled this week. Or rather, postponed until over their colds. On the positive side though, the phone has been ringing and I've taken 5-6 new bookings already, so January holds some promise for the computer tuition business.
I've adjusted my local paper advert slightly to offer gift vouchers over Christmas and the New Year...and had one taker! Gift vouchers are available all round the year of course, and I think in future I shall push them a little in my advertising. Take that as a New Year's Resolution if you like!
How's yours going? Business or resolutions, I mean........
Guest Bloggers
Please be a guest blogger if you like! It would be good to have a few of you posting some experiences here. Bear in mind that I'm running a blog for computer tutors where we can compare notes and perhaps help each other out. Let me know if this appeals!
The Birds...
I'm doing my best to help the birds through this winter. There seem to be a lot of blue tits in my garden - I think they must be the family that hatched and fledged somewhere near by last summer. I have a visiting blackcap (male) too. 
Blackcaps are warblers and should be summer visitors, but about 20 years ago someone noticed that they were 'overwintering' in UK. They are a bit more robust than other insect-eating warblers and perhaps more adaptable in their food.
Long-tailed tits forage through the trees sometimes and today a grey wagtail visited too. I expect he was disappointed to find the pond frozen!
