Well I guess that I must introduce myself to all…. WOW, that will take some time….
I’ll try to not to be too boring……
This is a VERY brief synopsis… 
Firstly, I have had a very good life with it’s up and downs…… but now I am retired and I have not been able to achieve an earning level I would like, far from it, whilst on a very measly 530€ month UK pension!
Wealthiest country in Europe that pays the lowest pension!
I have worked as self employed since the age of 19 in varying guises and hail from the South Coast of England.
I started working with my father, he was a master builder but sadly he died when I was 19 years old. I carried on working within the building industry carrying out extensions, alterations etc. for a few years.
My passion then was cars and I suspect many youngsters were the same.
I enjoyed repairing cars including bodywork so set up a body repair business which I ran for some years. and also joined a local motor club competing in autocross, rallies and other events and eventually building my own autocross car from scratch….
Ladder chassis with flat 6 Corvair engine on a VW beetle gearbox out the rear…… great fun. After this time I decided that I would return to the building sector for many reasons. I purchased a few houses in bad condition which I renovated and sold. Doing the large part of the work myself, as always….
I had bought, lived in, renovated and sold 3 houses also in this
period and decided that I would like to do property development. I re-mortgaged the house and bought a quality split level plot on which I built a beautiful split level property which sold immediately.
That was my start and went on to buy land and develop over 50 new houses. In 1999 the property crash arrived so I left the building game and tried a few other things which did not fair so well.
1995 saw the birth of the internet and I knew that I wanted a part of it so taught myself to write html pages/sites but trying to sell websites at that time was like trying to juggle soot….. potential clients hadn’t a clue what I was talking about when I said that in a few years the internet would be like your local yellow pages…..!
They thought I was mad…
So decided to set up my own business on the internet….. looked for a product that 
was small, not available in the shops and cheap to mail. I found Pheromones, yes, the sort that attracts the opposite sex!… 🙂 I managed to locate a lab in London that was producing pheromone products and got them to bottle for me with my own brand. Well for 4/5 years brilliant. I was taking orders of £3,500.00 from an American company for a couple of years then it slowly died as many hundreds, now thousands of people caught onto this lucrative market.
Partnered a new bar/restaurant that I converted from a bank which was absolutely fabulous, but sadly my partner choice was not good and he killed the bar by allowing students in!!
Cost me oodles of dough that little venture….. 🙁
For the last few years I have been trying to earn a living on the internet with not huge success, but I will never give up trying, it is all valuable learning.
Meanwhile in my life, I was married at 20 and was blessed with two very lovely girls within a few
years but divorced after 33 years. During my marriage I achieved many things and had many boy’s toys such as my 928 Porsche for 3 years, Mercedes 500 SL, a Gibsea 96 yacht in Turkey, boats in UK and latterly a BMW Z3 for 3 years before I moved to France.
I enjoyed my single life for a while and even started a little business running a weekly Singles Evening at a local luxury hotel which was a resounding success and which I ran for nearly five years.
During this time also searching for a new partner…… without any luck… I am fussy….
After giving the family home to my Ex. I had to start again.
In 2003 I moved to the South of France, to near Beziers, bought an old winery with a
huge loft which I converted into a Parisian style loft apartment which I eventually sold. ALL WORK CARRIED OUT BY JUST ME! Then rented for a while, bought a virtually derelict, one up one down house which I renovated, sold,
then moved to Spain in the Alpujarra in 2009 where I bought an old Finca (farm house) with 2.5 hectares of figs and almonds.
More work…………. and twelve years later….. still here, nearly finished renovating and rebuilding, major job, AND during this period I was lucky to meet my present wife, Rasa, from Lithuania, to whom I have now been very happily married for 9 years….. 🙂
You can see here another website of mine with Rasa too
https://cureautoimmunediseases.com/
and many more others….
So life goes on……
