Celebratory drink after record month for Comart Computers shipments on a cold and windy day as Tony Benn wins the Chesterfield by-election and Thatcher’s Tories are last
Up and to a boiled duck egg for breakfast and then on time to the office to review the mail from both yesterday and today. A full morning of office work before announcing that Comart would buy a round of drinks for all employees at the White Horse at lunchtime. We have exceeded £600K this month for CCL and with it the monthly record for shipments. This probably will equate to a net profit of £100K+. News this morning that Tony Benn had won the Chesterfield by-election with a majority of about 6000 over the Liberal/SDP Alliance candidate in second place. Short Brothers in Belfast win a US order worth £150M for transport aircraft for use between the Nato troops in UK and Germany that will secure the jobs of 7000 for the next four years and there are new peace moves in the Lebanon.
The weather tonight is both cold and windy but the fireplace has dried out sufficiently such that I intend to light it for the first time tomorrow. We are getting over our colds but I have a muscular backache tonight and I know not why. Home late after arguing with John Lamb late this evening over new product strategy and launches.