Apr
16
2009
It’s Thursday and I’ve just discovered how hard it is to dispose of unwanted items responsibly. I have a lot of stuff to dispose of from the office so I filled up my van and drove down to the local skip. “Do you have a permit sir?” asked the jobsworth. “Erm no, says I” “Then [...]
Tags: fly tipping
Apr
15
2009
Who’d be a salesman? I’ve put loads of stuff on Ebay and some of the most unlikely stuff sells while stuff I though would leap off the page doesn’t even get a sniff! For example, I put on 4 expired tax discs, two sold and two didn’t, and I still can’t figure out why Some [...]
Tags: learning to sell
Apr
14
2009
It’s Tuesday and I’m looking at all the stuff accumulated over the last few years in the office. There’s no way I can take this back home (where I will be working from now on). So it’s bag it and tag it time. Actually, while most of it seems to be just general junk and [...]
Tags: what on earth
Apr
13
2009
It’s Easter Monday and I should be relaxing but we are on a countdown to closure of our offices due to a downturn in business – we have become another victim of the credit crunch. As well as writing this blog I have been doing a bit of Internet consultancy over the past couple of [...]
Tags: countdown
Apr
01
2009
Maybe this is a young thing and us ‘oldies’ just don’t get it but it sounds like a stupid name to me. What’s it got to do with cards? And, why is the advert so crap? I asked some younger people and they didn’t get it either. Sorry people, should have gone to Specsavers!
Tags: moonpig, specsavers