Busy day on Comart Computer departmental issues, approving expenses and planning for branch review meetings before home for the family tea for a rare and pleasurable change
I rise early and wash my hair and enjoy my normal slimmer’s breakfast of two slices of toast and marmalade and apple juice to wash it down. Another fine sunny but cool start to the day. To the office and first to complete my business expenses for August and then sign the expense claims for the whole group. As usual there are half a dozen or so who have not completed the forms correctly but this time I write notes and insist they amend their ways – my patience has run out.
Soon the mail arrives and then whilst scanning it John Lamb comes in with all sorts of commercial problems to resolve. The Sales Department are selling component parts as well as finished computers and normally these go through the service department where they are better able to specify and test them. This resolved, I finish off the mail and attend urgently to the arrangements for next weeks. First an announcement about Carlton Howe’s arrival on Monday; next the agenda for next Thursday’s Southampton Review Meetings and alterations of plan so that I can make two meetings in Manchester at the end of the month.
This afternoon to tie up with Derek Weatherby for well over an hour on a wide range of financial issues. Then to Derek Morgan to liaise for the last time before his two week holiday. The architects have taken our last instructions on the new building and most other matters should be in hand. Last to discuss service and personnel issues with John, gathering up my papers to take home for an unusually early evening.
Home by 6.30 pm and in time for a family tea for the first time in months. Debbie is dispatched to clear up her toys and put her pyjamas on and Daniel to put away the ducks and clear up a mess of duck food. The weather turned to rain later today, and whilst I have not seen the TV news, this morning’s papers were still full of E/W confrontation on the S Korean airline, speculation about a new royal baby, and Arthur Scargill’s condemnation of Solidarity in Poland.