Day 2 - Feel the fear

Thanks to everyone who sent me encouraging emails and comments yesterday. I guess I should discuss what sort of work I am looking for. My Plan A is to get work housekeeping for holiday cottages around Havelock North. For those who don't know, I was a housekeeper for a year in the UK, and looked after the holiday cottage and the bed and breakfast rooms that my employers ran from their farm.

Other parts of my portfolio that I want to develop are my pewter earrings sideline, and I am seriously considering setting up a little ironing business. I think there will be some demand for that around here - working on my flyer for a letter box drop in a week or two.

So, back to Plan A. From my list of holiday cottages in the area I made six cold calls this morning. It is a scary thing for me to do, but each person I spoke to was helpful and nice and I got a few leads and tip to follow up on. What I am finding is that people who have one property tend to look after it themselves, but even those people have been encouraging and a few have taken my details for a backup during busy times. It will be more lucrative for me to target businesses that have two or more cottages. My target is 6 more calls tomorrow.

The exercise regime is in full swing. I got up the Peak yesterday afternoon but was appalled at how unfit I felt doing it. The payoff was being able to gaze at the pink sunset on the way down. Today was a long flat walk out along Middle Rd. It was a gorgeous day today, the garden cleanup got started - just too nice to be inside.