Grotty in Guernsey!

The weather is really grotty in Guernsey. Grey and bleak.

I have finished the course at Barings now and am off to get my hair cut. Then I am going to relax and have a bath. I feel I have earned it! Roll on tomorrow and my flight home.

Fenman under its new owners

Huveaux Trading Statement

Read the section on Education and Training. I obviously have no idea what is happening at Fenman but the pre-tax profit seems to be around half of what it was when I sold my share of the company in 2002. They seem to believe that cutting marketing and setting up a targeted salesforce will bring profits back up. I don't believe this will work. The answer is editorial investment. They need to produce stunningly good product reliably and regularly.

I wonder if this will be an example of a larger company failing to run a small one successfully? I hope not as many of my friends still work there.

In Guernsey again!

I am currently in Guernsey at Barings Bank running yet another course.

I fly home on Friday. Boy, am I looking forward to that. Who'd be a successful businessman?

Waiting for a plane in Glasgow

I have just completed the Accuracy course at CIGNA Healthcare in Greenock and here I am waiting for another 'plane. Again, the course went amazingly well. This time, I was accompanied by Stuart Watkinson our trainee trainer. Fortunately, the course went precisely to plan, so Stuart saw it in the best possible light.

Ellen MacArthur

What a gal!!! This is one of those achievements that lifts the entire nation and certainly makes me feel good.

Young Enterprise 2005

I am a volunteer director of Young Enterprise in the East of England and this is the time of year when I have to judge all the young entrepreneurs in our schools at the annual trade fair at the Grafton Centre.

This year, I photographed every stand and you can view them at:

Young Enterprise 2005

Houndville training videos

http://www.telephonedoctor.com/houndville.asp

If you have not seen these yet, you should do so now. They are very amusing.