Diary for January 2009
20th Gis a Job!
There are days – most days, come to think about it – when I suspect our government of wilfully misunderstanding what it means to be in business. The unforeseen price of a gastric bug is that I’ve sat through interviews over the past few days with politicians of all stripes calling for VAT holidays, corporation tax fixes and all manner of flummery to ‘help’ the business sector avoid more redundancies. Let me help these guys out here; the thing that keeps people in their jobs is WORK. Designers n...
8th Save the Filament!
A ‘friend’ rang yesterday suggesting that I go to my local library and steal their copy of the Daily Mail, where I would find something to my advantage. What larks, eh, Pip! It appears that we, as loyal subjects of the Crown, are being ‘robbed of our right’ to buy traditional light bulbs! Presumably, these are lamps hand-hewn by Joseph Swan in his garden shed in Newcastle. But no, it turned out to be a garment-rending piece about the loss of the faithful 100W GLS lamp. You know, the lamp tha...
5th The Rest is Silence
HAPPY NEW YEAR It’s January and I’d like to wish a very Happy New Year to our loyal reader. And may 2009 be everything and more than none of the rest of us expect it to be. But, as ever, good can come from dark days even such these. Now that my e-mail isn’t pinging at me all day, I have so much more of my life available to think about the really important things in life. Now I can get around to creating that new Facebook page of my seventeen-year-old self. Ah, to be a teenager again. How happy...
1st As Easy as Falling off a Cliff
I’m sorry. What was I saying? It’s just that it’s been one of those years when you come out the end wondering which direction you were facing when you went into it. There’s probably some appropriate Dickensian turn of phrase for it, but I just can’t bring it to mind. I mean; can you remember what you were doing last January? All that talk still of expansion and ‘continuing market development’ – but its like the waistbands that you get on M&S jeans; you’re doing fine ‘til the day your denims...
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