Today we are wishing a very happy 25th birthday to Mario Kiepas from our assembly team. Mario grew up in Krakow but has been living here in Southport for the last four and a half years with partner Dominica and daughter Agata who is six. As previously reported on the blog, Mario and Dominica recently welcomed new addition Olivia to the family and she is now five weeks old. When he is not at work Mario is a keen car enthusiast having trained as a mechanic in Poland and likes nothing more than a bit of tinkering under the bonnet. Have a great day Mario.
Into the second working day on the month and we are well on the way to paying all our monthly bills. We like to pride ourselves on paying everyone during the first working week whenever possible and have managed this in most of the last thirty months. It would be so much easier to achieve this payment target if our customers could only reciprocate. Don't get me wrong, many of our customers are great and pay very promptly but there is an increasingly growing minority who are taking a few days longer every month. It starts a vicious circle and involves poor Lauren in credit control in endless and unnecessary phone calls. We have started phoning before the bills are due now to make sure that everyone agrees the sum outstanding and there is none of that "can you let us have a copy invoice" half way through the next month. One customer put the phone down on Lauren last week saying that we had no right to chase money that wasn't due and he is sick of us meithering him for payment. All Lauren has asked for was a date when he would be paying. Methinks he doth protest to much.
According to a report just published by The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the redundancies blighting the country will peter out by Easter and the economy will swing up. They also reported booking Elvis for the entertainment at their annual conference and were confident that Gordon Brown would win by a landslide at the next general election.
Poor Gail Trimble.After keeping us on the edge of our seats throughout a brilliant series of University Challenge and stunning us all with her encyclopaedic knowledge of just about everything, the poor woman and her team have been stripped of their hard earned and well deserved trophy on the technicality that one of the team ceased studying after the second round. If Gail had not been so brilliant and garnered all the media attention and even a request for a photo shoot from Nuts, would anybody have been interested in who won University Challenge and thought that the status of her team member was newsworthy? This is a very sad end to a typical media circus and one that the BBC got wrong - again. I am sure that Manchester University will gain nothing from the new trophy that is being hastily prepared.
I'll leave you with a video that has been viewed by over half a million people and got over 7,000 comments already this week. The film has an innate charm but I have to ask the question. Why? If I had the answer maybe I could turn base metal into gold or perhaps even get Instanta into profit.
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