Selling books

You can sell your own books on Amazon, as well as Ebay.

Alternatively own a virtual bookstore via amazon.

http://greenmetropolis.com/
you get paid £3 for each book sold

http://www.lulu.com/ lets you sell your own printed or digital books.

Doing house invectories

You can possibly earn up to £250 a week, writing down details of what is in houses or flats etc.

Estate agents and landlords are the people to contact to offer this service.

Zazzle

At www.zazzle.co.uk, you can design your product(such as T-shirts and stationary) for yourself, you can also sell it on the zazzle marketplace and earn royalties.

Boosting your pension and retirement income

When choosing an annuity, go for the open market option.
SERPS,if still avaible.
Pension credit,if eligible,can be claimed.

Equity release schemes can boost retirement income.

Some benevolent assocations might give you an annuity.

I have had an interesting idea(but possibly impractical idea) of how to save for one's retirement.

Why not take some or all of my ideas in this blog and build up a residual income from my and other's ideas, so you can retire comfortably.
(Only problem is you may have to be younger than 40 to start)
(Mind you ,all these pension funds going down the pan,you might have no choice, but to try these ideas)

over 50s savings accounts
West Bromwich, Coventry and Ipswich Building society offer best rate

Deferring your state pension is a pension booster,for every 5 weeks you defer,your state pension entitlement increases by 1%,an annual return of over 10%.

What really makes money

This is a magazine by Nick laight which looks at possible business opporurnities.