Where's The Pizza?

We had a staff meeting this morning. That's when I stand in front of all the staff and tell them how the company has been doing for the last few months. I was pleased to be able to tell everyone that we were bucking the trend and that the company has done OK for the first nine months of the financial year. Productivity targets have been met in eight of the last nine months and the staff productivity bonus due in September should be significantly up on last year. As the meeting drew to a close I presented storeman Tony Lowe (above left) and sheet metalworker Dave Horrocks (right)with their prizes for our Guardian Pick The Score league. Tony, who finished way ahead of the field won £100 and Dave who finished third won £25. Second prize winner Nick Neal was not present to pick up his prize so we've used it to buy this week's bacon butties (just kidding Nick).At the end of the meeting I asked ,as usual, if anybody had any questions. The only question "Where's the pizza?". I baked a pizza for the office a few months ago and promised to do the same for everyone else at the next staff meeting but (completely out of character) I forgot. Anyway who wants pizza at 9 o'clock in the morning? Sorry lads.



I was fascinated to hear on the radio this morning that Health & Safety has gone mad in some schools and goggles have been prescribed for teachers putting posters up with blue-tak, running has been banned in the playground and conkers are a thing of the past. When I was a kid, everyone had scabby knees and grazed shins and I wonder if we aren't wrapping our children up in too much cotton wool today. Mind you such is the blame culture today I suppose that a kid coming home with a bloody nose would be down at the solicitors first thing in the morning.



And speaking of blame culture I was amazed to read that the families of these thugs who were jailed recently are going to sue the police (who put up the posters) for breaching their human rights as some family members have suffered a backlash as a result. Aaaaah. What happened to their dead victims' human rights?



Southport's gangland saga continues. This week a restaurant in Formby associated with the business partner of last week's shooting victim was fire bombed and completely gutted. If all of the last few months goings on had been written into the East Enders script the BBC bosses would be complaining that it was getting too far fetched.



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Here's a video that shows what happens when kids are kids and there's not one of those school health and safety officers about. What do they do? Flush the puppy down the loo of course.