Yes Gav's mum Margaret Quinn who helps to tidy our offices and canteen was bouncing into Graceland (Memphis Tennessee) in February and she has just managed to bring her photos in for us to see. As there were no less than 600 shots we almost had to close the office for the day in order to have a look at them. Margaret is a lifelong Elvis fan and by fan I mean fan by the real definition "A person marked or motivated by an extreme, unquestioning enthusiasm, as for a cause" as Margaret's devotion to Elvis is unwavering. Anyway here she is in front of the famous Graceland mansion. I can see from the photos that she had a wonderful time.
It was sad to read that even pets are suffering from the credit crunch as the RSPCA has reported a 57% increase in the number abandoned by their owners. Spare a thought for this poor creature, another victim of the recession. It seems that hard up women have been buying naked mole rats when the batteries in their rabbits run out.
I see that the pirates have struck again off the coast of Africa. This time they opened fire on the Italian cruise ship MSC Melody which had 1500 people on board. The pirates were repelled by armed Israeli security guards, employed by the cruise operators, who returned fire on the heavily armed marauders. This action came in for severe criticism by Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers' Resistance Programme who said "They should have used other means to shake off the pirates, like a loud acoustic device." Hmmm. Which would be more likely to stop you boarding? A gun or perhaps 1500 people on board shouting "BOO" at the same time. With Swine Flu stopping air travel and pirates putting everyone off sea travel I wonder if the news is being manipulated by the British Tourist Board in an attempt to boost holidays in the UK?
I just got back from Tesco. I love innovation and was first to try the automated checkouts last year but I gave up on them as they are so slow to use as people in front spend forever attempting to buy just a couple of items and the whole thing becomes a stimulus for high blood pressure as you watch their hopeless incompetence. So I now have the tills sussed out and know how quick most of the cashiers are. Sometimes it's better to wait for a particular cashier rather than go to an empty till manned by one of the bad ones. So I picked my favourite cashier today and sure enough she wizzed the customer in front's shopping through in no time but then I had to wait five minutes for the customer to find her credit card and then another two minutes whilst she sought out her points card. I think it's a woman thing. All the blokes in the queues seemed to have cash or cards at the ready, all the women started searching for it after they had packed their bags.
Sales Manager Peter Brindle was in Ireland last week. During his visit to Ballinrobe in Co Mayo he got taken short and popped into a field to relieve himself. Unfortunately Peter didn't shut the gate properly. The result has been viewed 160,000 times on Youtube.
Only kidding Pete.
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