The 50+ Club

Now that’s really news

How can a boss go undercover (Undercover Boss, Channel 4) in his or her own Company? Are they so unrecognisable that not a single employee would know who they were?

If that’s the case then there’s the problem…

Some time ago I borrowed a television from XXXXXXXXX for my house at 38 XXXXXXX, near XXXXXX and they’ve just found out. Apparently, XXXXXX don’t approve of people borrowing things from their store!

I’ve said I’ll take it back but they wanted to prosecute so I’ve been investigated by the XXXXX and appeared in XXXX where I was fined £XX. Fortunately, the XXXX and The XXXXX agreed not to reveal my details to the public so no-one knows about this except the Board of Directors at the Company I own.

They’ve been really good. Obviously my position was untenable and, as they said, it wasn’t the fact that I borrowed something long-term from XXX but that I got found out. Anyway, I had to resign as Managing Director.

Happily, my wife is Company Secretary so she’s created a new post to start as soon as all the fuss has died down (in about a month). I’m really looking forward to the challenge of becoming the first Directing Manager in the Company.

Oh, and I didn’t have to take the television back either

It took four days but we finally moved. The house is full of storage boxes and the lock-up is full of things too big to go in storage boxes. I’ll be hitting E-bay again but if you want some desks or chairs just reply here and we can arrange…

In the meantime I’ve been watching the MPs expenses debacle with amusement. If we get a rush on, with the likes of Phil Hope paying back £42,000, we could be out of recession within weeks

After another weekend of property development it’s back to moving the office - we only have five days to go…

Just lets clear up one thing about the weekend property development stuff, it’s not glamorous like on the telly! I come back home on Sunday night with a hairstyle that looks like a whole jar of styling gel has been applied. In reality, it’s two days of up in the loft under the floor and being splattered by the plasterer.

I don’t know how Sarah Beeny manages to look so good, I look like something the cat dragged in

No, nothing to do with white vans and everything to with moving web sites…

It’s mid-morning Friday and I’ve moved the easy sites to a server I’ve set up at my house now it’s time for the hard ones. What’s a hard one? It’s one that has a database back-end that stores all the pages and stuff.

Two hours later…

That’s this blog moved and it turned to be not so hard, more time-consuming. So onto another.

Another two hours later…

This one’s proving a little more difficult and I’ve got a headache!

An hour later…

I don’t know why but it works now so I’m off home. I’ll do the last one next week.

We need to find somewhere else to put this site.

All the servers are at the office of course and there’s not going to be an office shortly so where oh where can we move to? Given the object of the exercise is to reduce costs coughing up for an Internet host at whatever per month won’t be well received!

The other problem is that I’m not sure how to move a Wordpress blog having never done it before…

Funnily enough the office doesn’t seem any emptier than it was before we started we’ll have to make a greater effort next week as we are moving over the Bank Holiday weekend come whatever. What we can’t sell or giveaway will have to be stored in the lockup. Given that it’s packed to ceiling already that’s gonna be fun

Many thanks to friends and family who have offered temporary storage space but I don’t think they realise how much space would be taken up. The furniture was delivered in a 7.5 tonner, packed floor to ceiling, and that was in flat pack form. This amount of stuff isn’t going in a corner of a mates garage…

Back to packing stuff in boxes and taking other stuff to the local dump. I’m going to two different ones on alternate days now in an attempt to lower my profile a bit.

One of the things this exercise has revealed though is the appalling level of waste in the World - I can’t believe that we are the only people to have collected this much stuff. It wouldn’t be so bad but it loses value so quickly that I can’t give it away.

I am trying freecycle at the moment. Freecycle is an online means of linking people who have items they don’t want with people who are looking for items…

Most of the UK appears to be covered so click on one of the links above and try wasting less.

Too knackered after property development weekend to care really so not much sorting of crap and throwing out. Did some, but mainly spent all day faffing around!
Tomorrow I’ll be more energetic
What is it with the health and safety people? Don’t they know that if you don’t take some risks nothing ever gets done? There’s no way I am gonna pay £280 to go on a ‘ladder awareness’ course. I know what a ladder looks like! I know how to use one and I know if I fall off it it’s gonna bloody hurt. So, stop taking the piss guys, go get a real job…