A Well Earned Treat

After almost two months on a strict diet we were excited to discover that yesterday's lunch included two squares of dark chocolate. It was delicious but putting away the remaining twenty odd squares of the bar was frustrating in the extreme. According to the diet plan we've got about six weeks before we can have another piece.




I just read that the Liverpool Chairman spent two days talking to Fernando Torres about his future at Anfield. Now I like Fernando and appreciate that he is a wonderful footballer but what is there to talk about for two days? It will be a sad day for us Liverpool fans if he goes but it must be a pain for the rest of the team to be constantly listening to talk about whether he and Steve Gerrard are going or staying. Let's get it sorted out soon and remember that there are eleven players in the side and not just two. It was Dirk Kuyt who played more minutes than any other Liverpool player in South Africa. And you don't hear him moaning.



Congratulations to those who campaigned to stop Nick Griffin getting to take tea with the Queen. Your campaign was successful and managed to give his tiny minority party of thugs, racists and fascists blanket coverage in every newspaper and on every news bulletin. A classic own goal. You should have kept quiet and, with any luck, he might have choked on a cucumber sandwich.

There's a busy day ahead so I'm keeping the blog short. I'm dedicating today's video to friend and true Welshman Mark Jones of Workhouse Marketing of Ribchester.I'm grateful to ITN news for bringing it to my attention. A brilliant parody on Jay Z and Alicia Key's tribute to New York, it's a tribute to Newport. Where else? "Keep your Big Apple. We'll have a tangerine." Priceless.

We Were On Telly Last Night

Well not quite "we" as in me and Marion or Nick, Peter or anyone else who works here it's just that on last night's episode of "The Restaurant" there was a quite lengthy interview with one of the contestants right in front of one of our CT2000 boilers. I imagine the producer saying "We've got to get that beautiful boiler in shot so what excuse can we make? I know we'll interview that dull contestant in front of it to liven her up." It must have helped as she didn't get kicked off. Hope she's grateful. Maybe we'll see one every week a bit like Harry Hill's "Where has the knitted character been this week?" we'll have "Where has the Instanta boiler been this week?"



Speaking of Harry Hill, I'm afraid that Harry went down in my estimation by some considerable way the other week when he had a go at Nigel Slater. Why? Because Nigel's mannerisms were a bit camp.Come on Harry let's not get dragged back into the homophobic dark ages. I'll forgive him this once as he's made me laugh so many times in the past but any more of this sort of thing and that's the end of me praising the show on the blog. (Bet that will make Harry think twice!)





Here are two new additions to our store man Tony Lowe's family. They are twin granddaughters Edetha Jane (top) and Lily Rose. Edetha Jane weighed just 3.5lbs and her sister was 5.5lbs when they arrived in the world on 9th October. Tony tells me that mum Sara and the twins are doing well after a short time in hospital while they put some weight on.Their dad Steven is Tony's eldest son and he is delighted with these lovely additions to the family. Congratulations Tony.



Our lovely 2008/9 brochure is almost at its end now and I'm busy getting the new one ready in time for launch in late January. It has been a great brochure and will be hard to better but we are having a good try. I'm going to devote most of next week to preparing the writing to accompany the wonderful Workhouse Marketing's super layout.

I realise that I forgot to mention Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time the other week. In case you didn't see it here are his highlights.