Hope everyone had a good Christmas. Ours was very busy and I'm looking forward to a few days off now to relax (as much as you can with a 15 month old in the house!).

Nearly at the end of the year, in fact the end of the decade. It's a good time to look back on what's happened and take stock of the past, present and future.

2009 has ended well. My competition wins in December (three arriving in Christmas week) cheered me up no end. Although I have had a few problems this year, particularly with work, I am at least in work and nothing disastrous has happened this year in terms of death or illness.

We are a bit poorer financially than this time last year, a trend which looks like continuing for the forseeable future (lottery win permitting), but things could be a lot worse and there are plenty of people worse off than ourselves around the world.

I'm already looking forward to 2010. I've been hammering the competition entries over the last few days and am extremely confident that prizes will be showing up in January. I've already set up my 2010 competition wins page in anticipation.

I desperately need to lose weight and something drastic may need to be done on this front. My gym membership has had to be cancelled and I haven't had chance to try out my new running shoes with all of the snow and ice underfoot.

Need to do something with this website too. The money making DVD is still available as is the free money making ebook but neither have been making me any significant money so I'm looking at changing track. Not quite sure where to go at the moment but I have some time now to give it some thought and come up with some ideas.

Happy New Year to everyone. Hope 2010 brings you everything you wish for.

Just had a thought that the bumper money making DVD might make a good novelty Christmas present for anyone you know who wants to make a little extra cash.

At only £4.99 with free delivery it could be a bit of a stocking filler for someone. Before you wrap it up you could download it onto your hard drive so you can benefit from the thousands of programs yourself.

It contains over 4.4GB of data. When I was copying it yesterday it showed a total of 1,752 folders containing 33,806 files! At £4.99 that's 0.01p per file - 100 files for a penny. Great value.

You could also use the disc yourself to make some other Christmas presents. For instance hypnosis CDs, coasters, keyrings, horoscope forecasts, novelty bank notes.

To see some more ways you could use the DVD to make great Christmas gifts visit the bumper DVD page which lists just some of the contents.

I'm making it my mission to put ALL of the contents on this website. This means exploring all of the 1,700 plus folders, using the programs and info and cataloguing them all.

There's so much on there this is going to take some time so I'll break it down into smaller chunks. At 10 folders per day it's going to take me nearly 6 months working every day to get through all of the data!

Still, there are bound to be some nuggets of gold hidden away deep within the 30,000 plus files. It's going to be fun finding them and you never know, one of them could be the key to my fortune! I live in hope.

So for the perfect novelty Christmas gift for under a fiver buy the IYF Bumper DVD while stocks last.