Love is in the air at Instanta this week. Our machine tester Andy Fyles (above) got down on one knee at the weekend and asked his partner Claire to marry him. And the good news for Andy was that she said yes and wedding bells are going to chime in 2011.Congratulations Andy and Claire.
And there was more good news for assistant director and buyer Gavin Ford as he too proposed to his long term partner Julie. Gavin popped the question whilst on his luxury Caribbean cruise on board the Ventura and Julie gave him the answer he wanted to hear and there will be more wedding bells in 2011.
And even more good news came yesterday when we checked our lottery syndicate tickets for December. Here is Tony from our stores with our cheque for £2,763 which left all members with a payout of £132.59 for the year. OK it's not a life changing sum but, after my moaning earlier in the year that the syndicate never wins anything it was nice to get back £84 more than we paid in this year. Tony also manages our bonus ball competition. We pay £1 per week and all have an allocated number. Being a statistician, I reckon that everyone's number should come up once a year but the truth is that 12 members' numbers have not come up once whilst others' have come up several times. Luckiest on the bonus ball this year was Peter Brindle who managed to win almost ten weeks' worth of bonus ball contributions. Well done Peter (lucky ****)
We didn't get to Vue the other night as the weather was freezing and the warm lounge was inviting. Marion said that there was a film called "The Uninvited" on Sky. Have we seen it? "No " I said. "I'm pretty sure that we haven't". And we hadn't but five minutes into the film it all seemed very similar and we realised that we had seen the Korean version. Oh well never mind,it beat a trudge through the snow.And speaking of snow, daughter Sarah braved the elements to drive back to St Andrews yesterday. We told her not to do it but are glad that she did as she had no traffic problems whereas the roads in Scotland are almost impassable today.
It's very quiet here. The factory closed yesterday but we workers in the office are still hard at it. We'll be closing at lunchtime tomorrow. I'm putting a note on the blog for emergency cover for the three non holiday days next wee. Hopefully there will be few calls as we have had a good year for warranty call outs.
And remember, a peregrine falcon is for life not just for Crimbo.
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