Welcome

 I would like to use this page as an Introduction and a little explanation of

Showing off the beautiful Bougainvillea

I was so proud of this Bougainvillea, it had almost died, and now look at it.

brings me to this site. I tend to ramble a bit  as this medium was not around when I was at school, and its only since my children grew up and went their own journeys of life, that I have set about endeavouring to understand how this marvellous piece of equipment Works!!

Please forgive me if I don’t stick exactly to topic or whatever.

Recently, (during last 2 years) my husband and I moved to the lower part of New Zealand, as that was where I was born, and most of my family were still down there.

Little place called Riverton in Southland is where I was born.

Here is one of the spots we lived in while we were there.

Bates St Riverton NZ

Taken from our deck in front of our house which we rented while there.

This area here was looking towards the open sea from our deck, just above the Fishing boat harbour immediately below us.

When we looked the other way we could see the huge estuary which was the place where the rivers joined and became one.

It was a magnificient spot to live.

As you can no doubt imagine, I really didnt want to move away from there but  it was necessary so we left after about 18months of absolutely Idyllic living!

Here I am using WordPress which is a fabulous Tool! It took me quite a bit of learning, but I admit I had fantastic help form a couple of gentlemen who really do know WordPress inside out as they say.

Look up the names of Alex Sysoef and Guido W. Stiehle. You will find they know just about everything we need to know regarding WordPress and how to use it.

One of them calls their site  easywebtutorials, and the other is howtospoter. I have deliberately not itemized their web sites here so you can do a little personal research if you are really interested in finding them, but also because I wouldn’t like to think they got any spammers etc because of anything I put in here.

They truly are gentlemen, and yes, they do look aftert their clients extremely well.

As I learn more and more about Tools for the Internet and how to use them to help pensioners earn online, or as some would say, make some extra dollars online, (smile) I will add to my findings here on my blog.

I realize many of you will probably think I jump around from subject to subject, but its just the way I write.

Even at school I had to sit and write the only way I knew how when it came to time for essays. Otherwise it never seemed to get done. (smile)

However, now that I am a Great-Gran and into my 70′s I am sure you will allow me some space to ramble and still get everything you need in the right place for your needs.

I have raised 11 children all told, of which 6 were step-children.

I now have many Grand-children scattered all over the country of New Zealand and also in some places overseas.

Daughter and family before leaving on trip to England.

Daughter and family before leaving on trip to England.

Here’s a picture taken of a portion of my family as my Daughter was about to leave New Zealand for England. She’s the one standing right in front. My youngest Son and his Partner and family are also here. We all had a lovely time that day although a little sadness there too.  Her own children were now grown up and she was ready at last to have her turn at seeing the world and getting to work overseas. She has been away from our shores now for over 3 years and she loves her ability to work and travel in different places.

I’ve been  a person of many talents over the years, and twice had my own business, but bank criteria forced us out of both of them.

We used to do cut, make and trim for some of the larger clothing factories, but the banks decided to stop all the small bits going out and basically forced the bigger companies to use thier own factories instead of contracting out.

Then I decided to put my talents to use in a Car Detailing Business, only to receive almost exactly the same experience as before from a “Bank Credit Squeeze” as they called it.

So once the children were all grown up and had left home to raise their own families etc, I found myself becoming rather bored with the same old, same old every day.

I was watching My Son one day, who is now a Computer Programmer etc, to some huge companies in London, (rather thrilled with what he did with his life)  and thought now if I vould use one of those things maybe I could get some office work or something at home. It really just looked a bit more up-market to an electric type-writer, to which I was quite accustomed to working.

so slowly the wheels began to turn, and after many months of having my son tell me in answer to my many questions, “You don’t need to knoe Mum” I got mad and thought Yes I do need to know, so I began a very large, many year-ed journey of learning the ins and outs of working computers to make a living.

The worst thing I ever did was to chase all the pipe dreams of “fast Cash”. All that is good for is causing you to spend more than you should when it really isnt going to make you rich overnight at all! No matter whether your business is made of concrete and glass or just working on a computer at home, there is still “‘work” to be done and the learning of what tools and how to work them.

hopefully I have scared anyone off in my rather large ramble. I have jsut written cown where I am, and where I came from to get here today.

I will end this by saying I absolutely enjoy every minute of my time doing this job. Much more so than any other job I ever had in the corporate world.

Its fascinating, and every day there is still so much to learn from one angle or another.

bless you all, and may God be With you all.

Danella

Contact me here if you wish. danella@danellamarie.com

  • #1 written by Christina Mallaby
    about 1 year ago

    Hi honey I was reading you bio glad im not the only retired person on the Web my love is for dollshouses
    and I am still trying to make a go of it lol. I wish you well my dear Regards Christina From uk

  • #2 written by Karl
    about 1 year ago

    Keep Up The Good Work Danella..
    Hope to See Many More Posts

  • #3 written by Hi Danella
    about 1 year ago

    I have taken up your offer and linked to your blog site.Enjoyed reading your BIO as another aged pensioner it’s good to see we are not sitting around feeling sorry for ourselves.
    Wish you success in 2011.

    • #4 written by admin
      about 1 year ago

      hi there,
      good to hear from you.

      Yep, there aint no point sitting around whinging! :) Let’s get on and find a way to make some dollars, which I am now doing, thank goodness.
      1st time ever online, so I am feeling pretty chuffed!! :)

      Wishing you and yours a real happy New Year Ivy,

      Be blessed,
      Danella

  • #5 written by Gabriele
    about 1 year ago

    Hi Danella,
    it’s lovely to have found you, as we are almost the same age.
    Unless a few years make a difference, which I doubt much.
    Anyway, it’s interesting to see, which way you selected to become successful online. I couldn’t have done it all by myself. I needed a huge forum to help and many tuturials, tips, encouragement as well as examples. May be, in the end both ways are equally good, as all ways lead to Rome. Right? Sure, some may have even more stumbling blocks or hurdles. Nice to have stumbled upon you, in qondio, Danella.

    • #6 written by admin
      about 1 year ago

      Hi Gabriele,

      Thank you for sending a comment on my page. I truly enjoy it when folks stop to take time and say “Hello” I have sat here and spent almost half an hour reading your sites. Especially your “About Me”

      I really enjoyed that.

      Like you I am now beginning to earn online and it feels superb. I kept getting told you are too old to work anymore, but I didn’t “feel” old, so I looked for something I would like to do.
      Wasn’t far away, helping Pensioners Earn online, became my passion because everybody dais we couldn’t do it. We wouldn’t be able to learn all the things necessary etc. hahaha, Well my business now was begun and made successful for anyone who wants to give it a go, by a man named Darryl Graham. At the age of 34 he was fighting a terminal illness. Now at 50, and after the last 12 years he has partially fulfilled his dream of showing folk that they CAN succeed online with thier own business if they just apply themselves to one business for starters and stay FOCUSED on it!!

      I have been so blessed because where I once had to pay online for this bit and that bit to do this, or this, now I have ALL the necessary tools I need in one place!!! No more searching around for a auto-responder, or ad-tracker, conference room, mailer, or traffic etc, it’s all in one place with a very small monthly cost of $29 dollars.
      Never in all my long years of working computers did I realize it was so simple! I always thought it was so difficult. I even taught myself a smattering of html so I could work out where the coding and everything fits, or how to change something on a page. Made it easier alright, but man it was hard to learn!

      I appreciate how much you would have learnt with site sell. I would have used that years ago myself, but I just couldn’t find the money. I didn’t have all those super skills you have!! :)

      all I had was a brain which was always asking “why is it done this way ro that way” depending what I was questioning about. hehehe.
      They do say “curiosity killed thcat, but satisfaction brought it back” So I guess my innate curiosity led me here.

      Ouch, this has almost become a whole letter, but I truly do thank you Gabriele for your coment. My daughter had a holiday in Spain recently and loved every moment.

      Danella
      http://dannsbay.37southnz.com/My-Daily-Commute/

  • #7 written by SadieJane
    about 1 year ago

    Very much enjoyed reading your post. My husband and I remember, all too well, our self taught learning curve struggles on our first computer.

    Also, enjoyed seeing your family photos.
    Thank you for sharing.

    Wishing you continued success online.

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