Blimey! On Friday night, at the awards in London, I was presented with a ‘Highly Commended’ award in the PCA training category. It was a good night, spent at Lords Cricket ground with the great and the good of the preservation industry. Guest speaker was the superb batsman Alex Stewart, who scored over 8000 runs […]
Alan Pettingale pays me a visit.
31 Jan 10 by
Well, this Sunday was a laugh for sure. Alan and I go back over twenty years. We first met when I was franchising the Brick-Tie business back in 1987. Alan bought the Humberside Brick-Tie franchise and was by far the most enthusiastic member of the Brick-Tie team for quite a time. Alan wasn’t from a […]
13 Jan 10 by
These are my technicians – All super heroes to me. Ryan, Craig, Darren, Stuart and Adrian – the best bunch of best trained and highly skilled operatives in the UK. Find out more about these guys at our web site
Para-people
18 Oct 09 by
Paragliding has been off my agenda this year. Mainly due to over work and stress induced apathy, I’d almost forgotten I could fly. Well, after being rude to a customer (a first in 23 years), I realised I needed a break, so I joined up with a group of pilots going for a week in […]
District 9
18 Oct 09 by
Well, what can I say about this film? I went to see it the other night, on an Orange Wednesday, with Jonathan. So, there’s an unsettling start, with shaky news desk style images and rather plain people chatting about ‘what happened’. We then get introduced to this obnoxious character who is propelled into an important […]