Thanks to you both of you for your good wishes - it's nice to know you are not alone - I have had some very useful information sent to me through my private e-mail for which I am very grateful and in their debt. I hope to be of help in the future to anyone I feel I can, and have infact already been asked advise, which I have freely given even though I am a complete novice at this stage.
I do have a further question which I will post separately and hopefully get some feedback. I seem to have covered all the preliminaries and like a typical woman spent a whole day sorting out a uniform, but trying to motivate myself to some of the more laborious tasks like H&S has been another matter. However, the most taxing thing about starting this business I have found is actually getting some customers - I have had some very rude responses so I am getting used to getting the cold shoulder, its aswell I am thick skinned - serves me right when I get cold calls in the evening when I'm watching corrie and don't want to know and am not that generous myself (payback time.
Thanks again to you all.