Full house again with 7 absences & 6 subs.

Specific referrals asked for:

Jamie Denham – Business Development contact at banks – size not important. Lewis Malka – Events organisers. He is doing 200 small silver keys for one client – not likely to be thrown away! Alexis – Head teachers and other highly-stressed people for wellness programmes. Maurice Press mentioned that there are about 550,000 partially sighted people in the UK! Brought the house down when Mike Segall gave a him a kiss (all arranged beforehand apparently!)

Mike Segall announced that August is his busiest month. Quite the opposite of what he thought the situation would be when he set up his marketing business. Another busy person was Karelia came back from 3 weeks holiday in Greece and was working every day except two! In the UK, property prices are UP 8-9 per cent in a year in Westminster and Chelsea although number of deals is down.

Martin Dunne wants us to think of him as an accountant who is a thinker rather than a churner – someone who churns out tax returns and that’s it. Justin is working on someone who is setting up a new TV channel.

Sub Joanna Davies (DRINK) has a niche with sorting out nightclubs & similar that are underperforming…interesting angle in the staid world of management consultancy. Sub Liz Sorton looking for local government grant or sponsorship for a youth project.

Kirsty’s 10 minutes great but too short. She asked us to have glasses of room temparature water so we could rinse our palates between samples. Cold water would just make fine chocolate taste waxy. Samples included: Lindt 70% chocy (slightly bitter); Cadbury’s Bourneville (ditto), Sainsbury’s own brand dark chocolate (sweetest and my favourite – 5 other people thought so too) and Lindt 85% (bitter again). 100% buttons were passed round and Maurice said he felt like swinging from the chandeliers. Kirsty does chocolate-making workshops and recently did an engagement party – the couple met after they had got “slaughtered” drinking cocktails, so the fillings naturally had a cocktail angle on them.

Yours truly will be away next 3 weeks as my daughter is getting married – my subs (inorder) will be: Joanna Davies (25th) Liz Sorton (1st) and Catherine Spode (8th)