Keeping it going...
Three thoughts here based on this title.
1) obviously, despite having had loads of blog ideas BEFORE I started writing this blog, I now find myself bereft of ideas. ONE WEEK IN. This is potentially disastrous. I know it takes several repeats of everything to develop a good habit (well, any habit I suppose. I probably have more experience of bad habits in truth). Surely I cannot possibly fail in the first week? Perhaps I can blog about four English sides going through in the Champions' League? Maybe not - and maybe there shouldn't be an apostrophe in Champions' League. No, I shall keep blogging...
2) my preparations for my second Blenheim Triathlon are going CATASTROPHICALLY badly. No, this is not trying to lower expectations. Swimming, biking and running are almost non-existent in my week. I just cannot seem to develop the reasonably good training habits I managed last year. It's a bit too much like hard work. To be clear, it's not as if I am any good at any of the disciplines. In fact, my talent if anything seems to lie in being very good at Not Stopping. I am a pretty good Not Stopper, if I do say so myself. So, next week is it - from Monday I am going to be a very serious student of the athletic arts. There is clearly room for improvement from last year (avoiding a near-death experience in Blenheim Lake would represent progress). I will keep going on this too. Or start going anyway.
3) business point. Sorry, I have to do this otherwise someone will notice this blog and actually question its value. Anyway, you are probably only reading this because of the Blenheim Palace connection so I really ought to humour you with some business. And business is tough out there, for example we have had two big Blenheim Palace Natural Mineral Water customers go bust in the last two weeks and our investment in debt collection is growing fast. Yet, even in this slightly luxury end of the market, there is opportunity out there. We have really pushed on in our London sales efforts for the mineral water and have landed some nice new business. We are even now exporting water to Hong Kong (surreal, isn't it, but there is a big ex-pat community out there which yearns for all things British and, let's face it, there are few things more British than Blenheim Palace and shipping water around the world wrapped in a heavy glass bottle). We are also hunting investment opportunities in the water market and may be close to landing a really good one. My hat goes off to Trevor Rawden who runs that business and is doing a terrific job - he is feeling a bit unwell right now (he is an Arsenal fan) but we all appreciate him and wish him a very speedy recovery. David (his No 2) and I will try not to mess everything up behind his back.
Incidentally, in our main visitor business, we are up 20% across the board this week despite extremely grey weather. Apparently Sunday is going to be stunning - and apparently I will be keeping the garden going too (according to She Who Must Be Obeyed).
Ah well...
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1) obviously, despite having had loads of blog ideas BEFORE I started writing this blog, I now find myself bereft of ideas. ONE WEEK IN. This is potentially disastrous. I know it takes several repeats of everything to develop a good habit (well, any habit I suppose. I probably have more experience of bad habits in truth). Surely I cannot possibly fail in the first week? Perhaps I can blog about four English sides going through in the Champions' League? Maybe not - and maybe there shouldn't be an apostrophe in Champions' League. No, I shall keep blogging...
2) my preparations for my second Blenheim Triathlon are going CATASTROPHICALLY badly. No, this is not trying to lower expectations. Swimming, biking and running are almost non-existent in my week. I just cannot seem to develop the reasonably good training habits I managed last year. It's a bit too much like hard work. To be clear, it's not as if I am any good at any of the disciplines. In fact, my talent if anything seems to lie in being very good at Not Stopping. I am a pretty good Not Stopper, if I do say so myself. So, next week is it - from Monday I am going to be a very serious student of the athletic arts. There is clearly room for improvement from last year (avoiding a near-death experience in Blenheim Lake would represent progress). I will keep going on this too. Or start going anyway.
3) business point. Sorry, I have to do this otherwise someone will notice this blog and actually question its value. Anyway, you are probably only reading this because of the Blenheim Palace connection so I really ought to humour you with some business. And business is tough out there, for example we have had two big Blenheim Palace Natural Mineral Water customers go bust in the last two weeks and our investment in debt collection is growing fast. Yet, even in this slightly luxury end of the market, there is opportunity out there. We have really pushed on in our London sales efforts for the mineral water and have landed some nice new business. We are even now exporting water to Hong Kong (surreal, isn't it, but there is a big ex-pat community out there which yearns for all things British and, let's face it, there are few things more British than Blenheim Palace and shipping water around the world wrapped in a heavy glass bottle). We are also hunting investment opportunities in the water market and may be close to landing a really good one. My hat goes off to Trevor Rawden who runs that business and is doing a terrific job - he is feeling a bit unwell right now (he is an Arsenal fan) but we all appreciate him and wish him a very speedy recovery. David (his No 2) and I will try not to mess everything up behind his back.
Incidentally, in our main visitor business, we are up 20% across the board this week despite extremely grey weather. Apparently Sunday is going to be stunning - and apparently I will be keeping the garden going too (according to She Who Must Be Obeyed).
Ah well...
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