Email Invoices. We're Taking The Plunge

Our office manager Jenny has persuaded me to give email invoicing a try. Yes I know it's green and I know it's fast and I know it's economical and it works OK with suppliers that we buy from but. There's such a but in my mind with email. Ever since our son almost missed out on the job that launched his career when an email submission failed to arrive, I've been extremely wary of email for important stuff. We'll give it a try because I trust Jenny's judgment but if we are inundated with non-payers in a month or two amidst pleas of "we didn't get the invoice" it will be back to the paper and post.



Another Instanta boiler appeared on Raymond Blanc's show "The Restaurant" on BBC last night. The producer used it to mirror one of the contestants and our 1500 model got a good minute or so of free advertising.Would have been better if they had kept it clean. The contestants on this year's show seem to have everything necessary to run a successful restaurant apart from the ability to cook and it's going to end in tears. There is no way that any of these are going to be opening a restaurant. The highlight of the night was the cake made by one of them for a customer who wanted a cake in the shape of an aeroplane.I've been looking everywhere for a photo to no avail. Suffice to say it was hilarious.



Paranormal Activity at the cinema last night was OK. Not too scary but not bad either. It was a real eye opener for us to go to a full price showing as we are so used to Orange Wednesday. It's not the price I'm talking about, it's the audience. There were no more than six customers sharing the screening with us compared to a packed house on Wednesdays.



A big order for the DB2000 boilers is due to go out today or on Monday. We are sending sixty six of these to Rampton hospital. The electronic locks on these boilers are ideal for this high security establishment and help prevent the patients from scalding themselves.

As it's Friday it's time to start thinking about tomorrow night's X Factor. I still think my favourite Joe is going to win.So I'll close with some music.I hope Joe performs a bit better than this.

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.