Nice One Cristiano

There were two headlines that caught my eye in today's Guardian. The front page was full of the usual doom and gloom about the economy and included a graph that looked like the design for a new roller coaster at Alton Towers; the second was in the sports section and reported how Cristiano Ronaldo was unhappy with his recent £120,000 per week contract and his advisers want it upping to £160,000. With unemployment climbing inexorably upwards, Ronaldo and his advisers would be well advised to keep their mouths firmly shut. I am sure that plenty of Man U fans will be worried about their mortgages at the moment and the thought that Senor Ronaldo could pay a typical one off with 90 minutes' work but is still not satisfied is not exacty going to make him flavour of the month. Is this worth £160,000 a week?



As I write we are loading a lorry with 20 pallets of boilers for a big order. We continue to buck the recession. Long may it last. (Continuing to buck the recession that is, not the recession).

Marion and I are officially on holiday from tomorrow lunchtime for two weeks. This will be the first time that we have stayed in Southport for some time. I was looking at some old videos the other night and we used to have a model village and a funfair but we will have to make do with gardening, meals out and maybe a trip to the cinema. This time last year we were off to Venice but the local pizzeria is as near as we will get to Cafe Florian and the Leeds-Liverpool will have to replace the Grand Canal this year. You may ask why we are we foregoing our overseas trip if the business is doing so well. The answer is simple. The economy needs us to recycle our cash here in the UK and not abroad so we are doing our bit for the country and putting our holiday cash into sunny Southport (that should keep unemployment down for a couple of weeks).



....................You've seen one canal. You've seen them all..................



A week after the euphoria of the Obama success I just found this re-take on the old Bud ad. Sorry if it's a bit after the event but it made me laugh and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.


And just in case you are too young to remember the original.