It’s “elbows in” at the table even with a few people away and in true BRX tradition, Maurice Press of Disability Resource Team is volunteered to kick off the 60 seconds round when he has a mouthful of breakfast. DRT offer a 48 hours service with a minimum fee of £16 for putting information into braille or other appropriate format for a disabled person. The alternative if a disabled person goes to court is much more expensive.

Fiona Gale of Only Connect Solutions does marketing partnerships with the Daily Telegraph and The Times and her content gets into editorial and Telegraph TV. A week before their first birthday “Diver Mick” from World Dive Centres is back looking for Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) providers. The latter are used by people who wish to avoid big Income Tax bills and defer Capital Gains Tax bills.

Martin Dunne of accountants Sayers Butterworth would like to save Finance Directors money where they are paying through the nose for mediocre service from the largest accountancy firms and gives a testimonial for solicitors Sherrards whose quote for revamping employment contracts was under half the cost of a City firm. Paul Marmor of Sherrards would like referrals to employers and employees where reduncies are planned or happening, as this difficult process has to be done properly.

Des Sutton of IT service firm Man Bites Dog is here for the first time and Sanjeev Shah Corporate Business Manager at HSBC is back as well. Lewis Malka of Joseph Sterling Jewellers will be in the Big Apple next week running their marathon in aid of the charity www.getkidsgoing.com His sponsorship total is up from £3,000 of a month ago to £4,300 with a target of £5,000. If you have not done so yet, you can help him achieve this via: www.justgiving.com/lewismalkamarathon

Kirsty Joly our master chocolatier of Perfectly Tempered has some little house-shaped chocolates as samples for Karelia Scott-Daniels of Manse & Garret Property Search who tells a charming story where the chocolates gave the mother of an unruly child a few minutes peace to write out her fee cheque! The chocolates also seem to be popular with estate agents when deals are closed. Chase Property Selection is now officially dead with all deals closed and paid for – an excellent example of good business management.

Mike Nightingale of Green Park Insurance Services explains how fine wines can be covered by his bespoke policies while Yours Truly at in2 Consulting Ltd wants referrals to small solicitors or private client departments who may still be investing trust monies in an inefficient way. Direct investment into a few blue chip shares chosen by a stock broker and just left there, is a high risk way of managing trust funds.

Copywriter Caroline Hampstead tells of her work spectrum ranging from (exciting) ideas like the previously-mentioned Lastminute.com poster “Brazilian or Hollywood?” to the (rather dry) world of writing and modestly mentions that property giant Land Securites is on her client list. Roger Morgan curtain manufacturer Curtains Connect is back but no one mentions the old joke about “pull yourself together” and would like intros to Interior Designers.

Animator Jamie Denham of Sliced Bread Animation has to dash off early to present to multinational Unilever and will be away for a couple of weeks due to moving offices to Shoreditch and two weeks in Austria. David Coburn has a vacancy for a Bayswater solicitor in another group and a new visitor is Sean Barrell of Chateau Rouge purveyors of fine wines, teas and other goodies – launching 2009.

Gavin Morton-Holmes is homeless in the BRX sense, with two job offers to mull over and seems mightily relieved to be away fom JDPM. Mab Ayyub of Olive Communications will be bringing along the Blackberry Storm next week which is going to knock spots off the Apple iPhone apparently.

A refreshed but still pale Richard Houldsworth of Splatt Print is back from two weeks in Cyprus. He has been working with Hiten of Revolution Creative on the KISS FM couchers and wants intros to designers. Roy Duncan would like referrals to Finance Directors who may need help in managing cash flows in these interesting times.

As Gavin is unable to present his 10 minutes, master coach George Metcalfe steps into the breech and gives us the 7 Points of Leadership using a parenting book written by his daughters www.karenandgeorgia.com as a guide. A copy of this book will come in very handy for my daughter and her husband with my now slightly overdue grandfatherhood. By way of post script, George is a director of the Christopher Marlowe Society some of whose members believe that he actually wrote some of Shakespeare’s plays, and has designed a memorial service tomorrow at 12 noon at Westminster Abbey. We are all invited – enter by the west door of the abbey (no charge) and there will be lunch afterwards in the Methodists Hall nearby.