Another Day Another Dealer News

I have been busy this morning preparing a new edition of our Dealer Newsletter. These publications are published sporadically when we've got something new to tell the customers about and there's quite a lot of news in this edition. The main story is just how wonderful the new CT and WM boilers are. The electronics are truly the most advanced that you will find in any boiler and offer the opportunity for the user to program the machines to come on and go off at set times daily. This is a nice green feature to add to the ECO buttons that most of the boilers have and, with a built in filter monitor as standard, the unique features on these models make them unbeatable.



Empty desks like these are going to be a feature of the Instanta office when Marion and I retire late this year. So at the moment we are training Jenny, Gavin and Dave to fill those desks and Marion and I are trying to be silent in order to ensure that when we go things will carry on as if we were never there in the first place. It's quite difficult having to keep our mouths shut but it's the only way that we can make sure that our new owners have a problem free 2011.



It was wonderful to see our son Paul and his wife Josephine who made a flying visit to us for two nights over Easter. It's so sad that they are two hundred miles in one direction and daughter Sarah is more than two hundred miles in the opposite direction. They were showing us the wedding photos on their website. Unfortunately I can't copy them so I had to print and scan so forgive the quality of this. Whilst Paul and Josephine were relaxing in Southport, Sarah and her partner Duncan were snowed in in the holiday cottage that they rented for the break.I hope that they had a restful time.



Like all gamblers I tend to keep quiet about my losses but I am pleased to say that, after losing every week for two months, I finally had two winning accumulators at the weekend and my kitty has now risen to £975. I put £20 a week into this and draw out the balance on 31st December. Last year I managed to withdraw £1,000 so I broke even but this year if I am sensible I should be showing a profit come Christmas.

I'll close with a little film dedication for friends Mark and Nita of Workhouse Marketing who are preparing our Dealer Newsletter.

The Quiet Man Turns 39

On Sunday Jason Poland will be thirty nine. Jason has worked at Instanta for over eleven years now and is the deputy to Factory Leader Tony Mercer. Married to Jude, Jason is a very keen (and very good) pool player who enjoys holidays in far away places although he is also very much at home in Ayia Napa in Cyprus where he takes his autumn breaks.Though Ayia Napa is not famous for its quietness, Jason is very much the quiet man of Instanta. He likes to get his head down at work and, as a result, he is one of the most productive workers we have. Have a great day Jason. You've earned it.



We're down to almost the last box of our super 2008/2009 brochure and I am working flat out with Jen at Workhouse Marketing to get the 2010/2011 issue out. It's a big brochure with a lot of new stuff in it and it's starting to look very good. I've got a deadline of 31st January and it's going to take a concerted effort to hit it but at the moment we're looking good. If any customers have got an interesting case study regarding an Instanta boiler that they have supplied to a photogenic site please get in touch.We've got quite a few possibilities but so many of our end users such as the police and the royal palaces are unwilling to give endorsements as a matter of policy.



Here's Tony Lowe from our stores. Tony is suffering from a severe case of franker's cramp today having prepared over 2,500 copies of our Dealer Newsletter for tonight's post. Thanks Tony (and Jenny and Marion and Peter and Phil and Lee and Craig) for your sterling efforts in getting this out so quickly. We only got the letters from the printers at nine o'clock.



And here is the front of the Dealer News.There's some interesting stuff on the back too. If you are on our mailing list you should get it on Monday. If you aren't, we can supply you with an email copy or pop one in the post to you. Let us know.

I'm on an email list that sends me all the latest viral videos that are taking the internet by storm. One came from Coke this morning. It's supposed to be about a Happy Vending Machine that Coke set up in a University common room but it's rubbish.So here's one for Pepsi instead (that isn't).