Good For Business? A story of greed, photocopying and laminate flooring A few years ago a couple of young property developers in Yorkshire found themselves very busy, buying tired old houses, tarting them up and selling them on for a healthy profit. Nothing wrong with that, its good business. However, as most of their customers […]
Land Ahoy.
21 Feb 09 by
Ah, Amazing the difference a week or three can make. Here on the good ship Brick-Tie we’re buzzing, whereas not so long ago the mood was pretty bleak. The economy is still in tatters of course and I haven’t been able to re hire any of the staff who were made redundant. But the reduction […]
20 Jan 09 by
Have you ever made anyone redundant? I mean really? No? Well I have. It’s just a job which I , as a BOSS, may have to do sometimes. As it happens It’s not something you do every day. In my case I haven’t done it for over 22 years. Well, that’s a lie now, I […]
Sanitation woes
10 Dec 08 by
Yesterday I had a day off work to spend down in Sleaford with my sister, Moira.Moira has a superb new house and is an artist with her own studio ten minutes from home. We were to visit the studio so before setting off I visited the toilet. When I say toilet I mean state of […]
My business is feeling the strain….
12 Oct 08 by
It’s the economy stupid! My business is feeling the strain. After 10 months or so the squeeze on the housing market is sucking the life from my firm. The greater part of my business supplies services to those buying or selling houses. This part is a withered arm now and the other arm is not […]