Helena Jansen van Vuuren Blog

I was 19 years old and worked in the accounts department of an advertising agency in Kensington, London.  Have no idea how I got the job because I was a 'hippy' of sorts, fairly scruffy and had a wild 'permed' hairstyle.   The female head of accounts must have been a brave person ...

Friends knew that I was looking for a business opportunity and in response to a call I went to look at stock that factory clearance agents did not want or really did not know where or for how much to sell. · Boxes and boxes to look at - three hours later, · I was the happiest bu ...

Some time ago someone asked 'what book are you currently reading'. · At that time I · was reading The Just City but have since moved onto 'Apartheid - Britain's Bastard Child' and as a result have ordered some books about Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner, 1824-1955 from Amazon to ...

Potential customer or not.....wanted my 70 year old pearls for 'nothing' - offered to sell her 68 x 3 loose pearls...unsorted by colour or size and not graduated....easy she would sort and string in no time....today she came to my home and asked if she could return my pearls..... ...

I upset someone - a potential customer I think not - she complained about the price - she did not list costings as per the above posting but she was intent on getting pearls for 'nothing' - I quoted a price for 204 pearls(which is the approximate amount of pearls I use for one of ...