I received a letter today from my former Group CEO entitled Happy Retirement. He said that he had waited for the dust to settle a bit (2 weeks) before sending me a personal note. I was very touched by this. It wasn't necessary. He made statements such as: '...from my side the experience I have of your approach to work and doing business is one of ( Read more... )

For the past few days I have been chasing around like a blue arsed fly. Not that I recall ever seeing a blue arsed fly chasing around. Unless this description fits a Bluebottle fly that rather stupidly made its way into the dining room window last night and made a tasty morsel for Bertie, one of our cats. The crunching sound he made (Bertie, ( Read more... )

We had an excellent meeting with our supplier in Arras, France. Deal done, contract signed, dinner at the superb hotel restaurant accompanied by bottles of Gevrey Chambertain (rather pleased that we weren't paying at Euros 90.00 per bottle!), and a few cognacs saw us into the small hours ( Read more... )

A 5.00am start this morning ( Read more... )

What? I haven't posted for six days? Bet you haven't noticed, haha! Very busy period for us and for R&R I've got my head in a book entitled "WHO MOVED MY BLACKBERRY?" by Lucy Kellaway (Penguin ISBN 0-141-02054-7). I travelled to a meeting yesterday by train and saw this in Smith's bookshop at the station. It is ENORMOUSLY funny! Real laugh- ( Read more... )

Only thing to report is the success of tying up a deal with a Swedish supplier on a MAJOR new product for us! Long day, jeez, I'm cream crackered!

Some good stuff in fblogs!

Goodnight!

I signed up a new client today - in Latvia! The EU tentacles are spreading. We founded our company just two years ago and have a customer base that includes the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia, the Benelux, France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Our website is working well and we have a great PR company behind us. Our flagship product has just been ( Read more... )