With my weight at a record low I have ventured out to the gym a few times lately. Forty minutes on an exercise bike is manageable but boy is it boring. Granted there are a number of TVs dotted around the place but without sound I have resorted to watching "Eggheads",looking at the answers and surmising what the question might be and which is the correct answer. The other night "Bubble, Saffron and Edina" were on the screen in the entertainment round and I guessed the question might have been "which character in Ab Fab is played by Jane Horrocks?" but I was wrong as the answer was Saffron. Fed up with this game after a few weeks I decided to look for a pair or earphones. I knew we had some somewhere in what Michael McIntyre might refer to as the "Man Drawer " (in our case a camera bag) and there they were. Only problem was that, on arriving at the gym, whilst the TVs were tuned to BBC2. Sky News and BBC1 plus a couple of those music channels that look like soft porn, the plug in sounds were only tuned in to the music. So what's the question if the choice of answers is "Liverpool, Real Madrid or Barcelona?"
Am I alone in wondering what all the fuss is about the woman who put a cat in a wheelie bin? OK so it was a bit cruel to the poor little moggie but the way that the world has reacted it is as if the lady (who turns out to be a bank official - at least she was before the video got onto YouTube) was responsible for mass genocide. Let's have a bit of perspective. The cat was featured in today's Sun surrounded by gifts sent by well wishers. It's a bloody cat! Send your gifts to some of the people flooded out in Pakistan and get a hold on reality.
A matter of priorities.
Nothing on at the local Vue again this week so we are off to Picturehouse at Fact in Liverpool to watch "The Illusionist". It's a French cartoon with subtitles based on a screenplay by Jacques Tati but somehow Vue don't seem to think that the people of Southport will be interested even though they have found time to show "Grown Ups" and "Scott Pilgrim" which both look a bit rubbish. I'm not saying to give films like "The Illusionist" a whole week in Southport but there must be others here who would like to see the film (the list of films that we would like to see but don't reach Southport is endless)and maybe a night a week and one of the smaller screens could cater for us. Oh well it's £14 out of Vue's coffers.
We've sold out of our fabulous under counter models this week which is a bit frustrating as, with the factory on shutdown, we can't rush a few out to help a customer who wants three for the weekend. It's very rare for us to run out. We built to meet Nick's sales forecast but he was not very accurate on this range. Never mind, it's better to sell more than the target than less and apologies to those who missed out. A salutary lesson. Why not keep a couple in stock?
I'll close with a trailer for tonight's film
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