Be The Jam

Date 6th May

Stage Planning Expedition

Location London

Weather OK

 Health Good

Fitness Poor

Advertising revenue Yesterday - £0.98

• Total  £5.98

Readership Increasing steadily

Prospect of Mission Improbable happening Very good

Today's "genius" idea Work on travel guide

Tomorrow I shall be celebrating the bank holiday but roasting a massive joint of pork in an earth oven, it will only be the fourth time that I have used the oven as it is quite labour intensive. Using an earth oven isn't an exact science, for a start there is no temperature gauge, it will either be hot, very hot, or white hot. Experience tells me that white hot isn't the best way of cooking a joint of meat, however it is quick. The other tricky thing is that it is not possible to just take a quick peak and see how the meat is doing on account of the fact that dinner will be wedged between two very hot dum-bell weights, buried underground and, just to make life interesting, there will be a fire on top just to make sure the oven stays warm. I shall be reliant on guess work. Half cooked pork, buried in the woods - a recipe for health living me thinks. I shall invite some friends of mine form Oxford, I rather suspect that they will be "busy".

Good News

The original plan was to run an online travel guide called Be The Jam  from the jungle, this idea had been falling by the way side lately as it began to seem as though the travel guide would not work as a business and if I couldn't make it work from the UK it seemed very unlikely that it would work from the jungle. Things move pretty fast and I'm pleased to announce that www.bethejam.com has become affiliated with Thomas Cook. Basically if you log onto the Thomas Cook site through one of the links on this website and go on to book a holiday, flight, car hire etc then a percentage comes to Be The Jam, pretty cool huh? So if you do book a holiday through Thomas Cook you can do so safe in the knowledge that you are helping to get Mission Improbable off the ground and so helping the battle to save the Rainforest.

If this partnership with Thomas Cook  works out then I might even be able to invest some money in paying for stories thereby increasing the content and thus traffic to the site and generating more income. If that happens then the original plan of running a solar powered business from the jungle becomes a reality.

It's not just Thomas Cook though, I'm also working with:-

•  Sim4travel who provide a sim card for your mobile that will stop you from being charged for calls you receive whilst abroad and  reduce the cost of making calls.
• Outdoor Megastore - The original and biggest camping equipment retailer in the UK.
• Chateau Online - Europe's leading wine specialist ChateauOnline
• TEFL - Earn up $17,00 a month teaching English as a foreign language Online TEFL course - free trial