No More Victor Meldrew

My critic tells me that my recent blogs make me sound like an egotistical grumpy old man. I (of course) DON'T BELIEVE IT

But just in case she is right, I promise to be nice today. Last night's performances of "Mamma Mia" was wonderful. Pierce Brosnan and Julie Walters sang like angels and danced like Fonteyn and Nureyev. There were no tantrums in the queue when the sold out light went on (just a cheer from the blokes who got to see Batman instead). As one of only 25 men in a capacity audience I felt slightly emasculated but it was good to see what makes women laugh and I feel that if someone reopened the Carry On franchise they may be onto a winner.

Happy Birthday greetings go warmly to Operations Director David Wilson. Dave is 44 today and has worked for us for 28 years. Starting soon after leaving school at 16 Dave has done almost all of the jobs at Instanta including buying and running the stores. He has gained two university degrees whilst working full time and is also qualified in Health and Safety and Environmental Management. Recently Dave has devoted hours to developing our superb new product range and he is pictured here with the first batch of Under Counter boilers which have gone together beautifully. Dave is a devoted father to Jack and Abbie and recently took them on an adventurous outdoor holiday in a wild and wet Wales. With almost a third of the country's Premiership Football teams within 45 miles of Southport, Dave has chosen to support Arsenal and is in our pick the score team as Northern Gunner. Have a great day Dave.

And now that our under counter boilers are going strong we can turn our attention to the last of our development projects the Sous Vide water baths. As we like to think of ourselves expert in water heating technology and wanted to branch out into other areas of catering equipment Sous Vide cooking was a logical step. The machines work brilliantly but, before going into production we are trialing them with a number of top chefs. We will tweak them after the chefs have given us feedback and will launch in late autumn.

Nobody has won our competition yet. To save you time going back through the blogs it is repeated here. And here is an additional clue. Ding dong.

When you order a boiler answer the following question and, if you are the first to get it right, we will give you £20 off your order. Link two time travellers with the following photo.
And to keeping my promise of being nice, here's a nice little song to cheer you all up.