By far the most shocking thing happened last week when I tried to make a cup of tea.
Our long serving kettle finally gave up on us.
It did go out with a bang and a cloud of smoke.
It also gave me an electric shock.
Our three valiant directors, Chas, Bobbie and Richard ran to my aid.
Thankfully I was just a bit surprised and felt a bit tingly for a while.
I think it will take a while longer for the electric jokes to wear down though

I’m sorry to have to confirm that all the youngsters left the party just could not outlast their seniors…the last “men” standing were Charles (no surprise there…), Sonia, Richard, Greg and Bobbie!

Despite the wise owls warnings to pace oneself, one by one the less experienced began to fall…

And how about the our favourite cashier? I’m sure you’ll agree from these pictures that he could not hold his alcohol either…no sirreee! Looks like he needed a bit of “support” from Justsayplease. Not to worry Paul, we’ll look after you…

I think we may have been a touch loud and as our Gay French waiter told us off half way t hrough our meal “could you pleese keep your voyciz down, ewe are deesturbing ze guestzs…”

Anyway, all went well until we walked to our next venue, The Jam House to boogie on down… here’s where our next casualty came along… and what’s wrong with Steel Cap boots anyway? I don’t like this place anyway proclaimed one of our twin programmers nicknamed Zebra (building a Giraffe …eh?).

So it was left to the over 30ths and Roborg to boogey the night away….

Lots of fun had by all…

So what changed? Firstly the big move to bring our first two companies holidaysplease and tightsplease into one common office area. As we watched the pennies, like any self-disciplined organisation, instead of opting to pay for professionals to move the company assets , we broke our backs and moved the furniture ourselves. To the right you can see a picture of Richard Dixon, Managing Director of Holidaysplease and his team leaving Yenton Towers!

A special thanks goes to Jay Matts, our dear friend (not quite the muscles from brussels, but the muscles from Nottingham instead) – whilst Charles, Richard and Bobbie carried one piece at a time up three flights of stairs, Jay was able to carry twice as much! So thanks once again Jay. By the way if anyone is looking for a private detective, we highly recommend Jay, check out his website at www.mattsbros.co.uk
Was it worth it? Definitely, for one the company has grown to become a stronger team, besides the new offices at Frederick street are much better all round.

We recently went through the same back breaking exercise once more in a bid to improve our filing system and update our furniture once again. Bobbie has definitely lost popularity with Charles and Richard as a result. This time there was no Muscleman Jay to help out, however we did get quite a lot of help from Barbara Palmer, our new customer services champion! So I guess many thanks to Barbara, Chas (as we like to call Charles) and Wingman (our nickname for Richard Dixon)…. I promise I’ll leave it at least 12 months before reviewing the office furniture situation again