Day at Grove House organising and administrating the Comart sales deal and evening dinner with Nigel Smith talking about my new BMG role as Miners picket in bad humour and local authority rate capping is started
Up to our morning drinks and breakfast and to the office at Grove House close to my old time of 8.30am. I took in the Rover (FRP 96X) for the last time and left the keys with reception. Several more Profit Sharing Scheme Proxies received today and also a letter from Richard James summarising the intended completion arrangements. I sort out the last three Comart Ltd Directors Meeting Minutes and paste them into the statutory books for safety, copying them to Derek and John for completion. Also to send off the form for a Saint Neots Private Box for my future mail. Then to Little End Road and a morning’s Comart Computers Review Meeting.
John Lamb settling in well and driving things forward thoughtfully. The summer sales level low as usual but not causing undue concern. Of the executives present Ian Nickson the most flat but suffering from a stomach bug. A buffet lunch together and then back to Grove House for a few hour’s company administration, but finish to talk to Richard James to try to map out just what was needed for the complex completion. Also to talk to Derek, John and finally Peter Smith about the arrangements for Registered Offices, Kode trusteeships of the Comart Pension and Profit Sharing Schemes and the Press Conference tomorrow. Eventually to draft the notice of the Director’s Completion Meeting, the minutes of both this and the EGM, the EGM resolution, the revocable allotment letters and the Broad family resignations as Director and Secretary as well as the share transfers!
Therefore late to leave the office at 7.30pm with still more work to do tomorrow or Thursday. John Lamb popped over with the briefing for the Tower Hotel Press Conference before home to change and shave. Off to meet Nigel Smith and Mrs Smith for dinner, dropping in on June Hamilton in Eaton Socon on the way to give her the secretarial work for tomorrow. Then away to a nice restaurant for a splendid meal with much discussion on business management and enterprise. They were a bit depressed today by the return on their own efforts and I have to be more sensitive about blowing my own trumpet too much and becoming a bore. The car didn’t help as well.
Home late to a midnight bedtime and unsettled with the fullness and heat of the late meal on the one hand, and thoughts of matters outstanding on the other. But the outcome of being offered a BMMG office with the titles of Director or Director General mentioned as possibilities.
News today of more miners picketing and bad feeling and also of a dead heat in the Israel election with both parties (Likud right wing and Labour) haggling with the minorities to try to form a coalition whilst the Bank of Israel banned foreign currency transactions. Lastly Environment Secretary, Patrick Jenkins, announces the names of eighteen English councils to be rate-capped to mounting furore.