well not self employed, but I work for a small sub contractor in the construction industry - we've picked up £50k of orders in the past week - you tend to find no one wants to give out orders before christmas time anyway.

At the end of November the boss put us on to a 4 day week, still on it but the signs are looking better (as above!) and he reckons this Monday coming will be last off work... Kinda get used to working 4 days, but I look forward to the extra shifts wages in the bank again.

Luckily I live with my rents still so my car is my only outgoing. When we were put on short time I was in the middle of a loan application for my race car build, still went ahead with it but was really nervous about that.