Rainy day of paperwork and meetings before travelling to Nottingham for a Byte Shop meeting before dropping in on David Whitby nearby with John Lamb as Jim Prior bravely speaks out against public service cuts
Early to the office on a rainy day and most of the morning attending to paperwork and checking yesterday’s work. Meetings with John over management and communications and June about the allocation and repair of company cars. At lunchtime to Nottingham eating sandwiches “en route” and to arrive at 1.30pm for an afternoon’s meeting.
We write off £5/6K of stock, tidy up the balance sheets and are pleased to see an improvement in branch communication. The Nottingham service engineer will be assigned to Birmingham and with it the concern with regard to assets and management. Urgent priorities for the recruitment of good sales and support people. The Byte Shops overall totalled £417K for September and £1.2M for the first quarter as a whole. Home to St Neots and a long journey with John discussing the solutions for problems on hand.
News today of Cecil Parkinson’s reception at the Tory Party Conference which was polite for the most part but subdued in its acclaim. Meanwhile Jim Prior was attacking the public sector cuts. Economic forecasts are mildly optimistic but the industrial output has fallen this month. The family having already retired to bed after my late arrival, I watched the news and after my meal to bed. I had visited David Whitby with John Lamb on our way back and they have been 2.5 years in Nottingham renovating a huge old house in poor circumstances.