Signscape blog

 This is me in my first rowing race for over 8 years - all the rest of the guys were under 30! so not too bad for a middle-aged baldy! I thoroughly enjoyed the event and forgot the cold. My family came to support - there were lots of people cheering from the banks - it was great fun. Rowing is really about working together to achieve a common goal and every one of us were nervous at the beginning and exhausted by the end of the race.

I took up rowing back in Sep 09 and have loved the training - but it’s great to compete! I’m in the no. 3 seat (which for those initiated is 3rd from left as you are looking at photo) with woolly hat and grimace on face.

Hamish

I can’t believe 3 weeks have flown by since I last wrote anything - I have been on holiday for a week to Club La Santa - a sports training resort in Lanzarote.  The weather was great - between 23 and 26 degrees, unfortunately our daughter was ill the first two days and then I came down with a tummy bug! Good to get some winter sun though and a bit of training as well.

We have just produced a new Papyrus price list (contact sales for information) and we have just sold some of our solar powered units to Australia and New Zealand! In addition to all that we have some really exciting developments for next year that are now well under way - will keep you posted.

Speak to you soon..

 I took this photo when my 5 year old daughter (Sophie) came in to help me one day in the office during half term week. Sophie wanted to do “businessing”, which involved using lots of coloured pens over various pieces of paper. She also delivered messages to  members of staff, opened the post and at different times answered the phone (apologies to Steve).

Now she knows everything that her daddy does each day at work, she would like to come and visit the customers as well and would be happy to carry out the same help there. I explained that I show our customers the products or talk about projects - her retort - ”they can look on your website, then you can be home to read me a story”

Sophie only came in for about an hour and a half, before I dropped her to a friends house, but is now telling anyone that will listen “businessing is easy”. My wife wants to know as well….mmm.

 Do you remember a few weeks ago when Sue knocked over all the grub screws - well just before she went on holiday she had managed to sort them all out again! Being quite proud of her achievement and wanting to show me, she called me downstairs to show me - only to nearly knock it all over again! Fortunately she didn’t, much to the amusement of everyone elso on the shopfloor.

Talking of the shopfloor, we are continuing our improvements on a weekly basis. We have just had a Health & Safety check as well, which highlighted some further improvements we could make. We are using the quieter months to get all the improvements carried out, before the beginning of September, when traditionally we see the start of a busier time up to Christmas.

I couldn’t resist putting these piccies up of Paul and Colin taken at the beach last week. When they are not working on anything to do with signs, they like nothing more than hitting the beach. Now Jeremy has moved over from Windsurfing to Kiting and Sue is having a go as well, I feel I’m letting the side down a bit, by just mountain biking, rowing etc.