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I've largely been the only person in my department this week, so the update is brief and hardly illuminating; I've looked, downloaded but committed to nothing. It has also been freezing cold which is irrelevant other than for the fact that I'm extremely grateful that my entrepreneurism isn't how I pay the utility bills.

Update:

- Downloaded Trading 212 app, largely based on the promise of zero fees, "invest from as little as £1" and buy fractions of shares

- Been scouring eBay for 50p pieces for sale to gauge how much mine could go for. With Christmas and postal strikes, this is not a time to be selling collectable but relatively common coins, it seems

- Start a publishing company; some actual positivity here - I've researched names, self-publishing routes, markets and copyright law, plus some technology. A full update in next week's post.

(I've also thought of a name I like for the publishing company, so I need to find a way to reserve it/protect it, in case any of the very, very small readership of this blog decide to rip it off...)


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