Forgive me readers for I have sinned. It has been nearly a week since my last blog post.
So, as it’s 23.41 and I’m trying not to drink during an evening any more, I’m wide awake. To be fair, today is the second day of this new regime, and I haven’t thought about alcohol at all (apart from mentioning it now).
Anyway, just thought I’d share a few thoughts…
Budget
I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t care one way or another about the budget and what the new Chancellor has to say. He’s unlikely to help our industry in any significant way, and indeed is more likely to make doing business more difficult.
So, I’ll not be showing much interest and will be concentrating on my own little world and just getting on with it. Over recent weeks I’ve heard from a few sources that things are getting tougher in the window industry. Window factories have little volume going through them, and staff are being laid off. I keep being told we’re ‘bucking the trend’ and we must be, as June will be close to a record month, and the majority of our dealers are hitting good numbers still.
What are your thoughts on this?
BFRC / WERs
I’ve had no response from Giles Willson or the BFRC to this post on June 11th:
http://renegadeconservatoryguy.co.uk/still-no-answer-about-the-solar-gain-in-the-wer-scheme/
You have to assume that nobody at the BFRC wishes to answer the question raised, and that will continue to create suspicion from the increasing number of sKeptics of the scheme.
Huddersfield Town box
I realise I’m opening myself up for sarcastic remarks here, but would anybody like to come to watch Huddersfield Town next season?
We share a hospitality box with West Yorkshire Windows, so in effect Conservatory Outlet has 5 places for every home game. It’s not fancy - we have a couple of beers, and pie, chips and gravy. If the football’s not good we tend to stay indoors and watch Sky Sports News and have a natter. Occasionally it does get exciting, and we have seats outside if we wish to soak up the atmosphere. Anyway, here’s next season’s fixtures:
Saturday, 14 August 2010
Huddersfield v Tranmere, 15:00
Saturday, 28 August 2010
Huddersfield v Charlton, 15:00
Saturday, 4 September 2010
Huddersfield v Bournemouth, 15:00
Saturday, 18 September 2010
Huddersfield v Yeovil, 15:00
Saturday, 2 October 2010
Huddersfield v Bristol Rovers, 15:00
Saturday, 16 October 2010
Huddersfield v Southampton, 15:00
Saturday, 30 October 2010
Huddersfield v Walsall, 15:00
Saturday, 20 November 2010
Huddersfield v Exeter, 15:00
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Huddersfield v MK Dons, 19:45
Saturday, 11 December 2010
Huddersfield v Brighton, 15:00
Sunday, 26 December 2010
Huddersfield v Hartlepool, 15:00
Monday, 3 January 2011
Huddersfield v Sheff Wed, 15:00
Saturday, 8 January 2011
Huddersfield v Plymouth, 15:00
Saturday, 22 January 2011
Huddersfield v Colchester, 15:00
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Huddersfield v Carlisle, 19:45
Saturday, 12 February 2011
Huddersfield v Oldham, 15:00
Saturday, 26 February 2011
Huddersfield v Leyton Orient, 15:00
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Huddersfield v Rochdale, 19:45
Saturday, 19 March 2011
Huddersfield v Swindon, 15:00
Saturday, 26 March 2011
Huddersfield v Notts County, 15:00
Saturday, 9 April 2011
Huddersfield v Peterborough, 15:00
Monday, 25 April 2011
Huddersfield v Dag & Red, 15:00
Saturday, 7 May 2011
Huddersfield v Brentford, 15:00
If you’re interested in attending any of these games then please let me know. I don’t even have to know you, although I would appreciate not being sold to, and in return I won’t try selling to you. How does that sound?
Ripple Africa
Finally, I mentioned previously that I had started supporting a charity called Ripple Africa, and Conservatory Outlet is sponsoring 20 tree nurseries. Well, next Tuesday I’m flying over to Malawi to check on the progress and see how the tree planting is getting on. I’ll be out of action for about 10 days, but no doubt I’ll write about my experiences in case anyone’s interested.
Anyway, I’m off to bed.
(Or shall I have a night cap?)