Back to the 'ol wholesaler today. More stuff required but we are getting cleverer about what we buy and how much we buy. I have a little view on insanity, that being; the definition of insanity is when you keep repeating the same process and expect a different result, so it started to concern me when the checkout bloke greeted me by name and said 'same again'. So now we plan better and buy more and make fewer trips. I suppose it also helps that we're starting to get a feel for the volume and eating and drinking habits of middle England. This part of it anyway. And maybe one day the wholesaler will find it in their heart to take my order and deliver it to me. But only when I get to the front of the waiting list. And only if they have space on their truck. And only once they have completed a full health and safety check of my premises. Yes, this is indeed the first, paint everything yellow so that no one bumps their head, world.
Today is truly a momentous day, we joined the modern world and can now watch television as we had an aerial installed. It cost a whole lot of money to have this digital aerial installed but just as you know this is the only village in the northern hemisphere with no mobile phone signal, it also has, yes no word of a lie, notoriously bad television reception too. I was warned that only 7 or 8 channels would be available but no, with this state of the art, more expensive than a small house very shiny and digital aerial that points in the opposite direction to all the other aerials I can get 104 free to view channels! Now that is what I call a significant step up. For the offspring, who by now know every word and facial expression of every DVD we own (and the youngest still laughs at every replay of every DVD??) this is an amazing day. They will be able to vegetate completely now in front of the box and scroll through the channels like never before. And being a valued BT customer - the same people that took forever to install a bloody telephone line - I also have something called BT Vision, which means that we have PVR functionality and movies on demand and something else and something else. Just don't ask me what they are. My eleven year old who thinks she is eighteen will be able to tell me after today though so I'm not worried. I have asked for a written report posted on bookface. Please watch out for it.
The other super exciting thing that happened today is that we had a twenty strong Spanish Expedition group arrive unannounced for lunch. I did scratch my head a bit when four kitted out overland 4x4's pulled into the car park. An expedition to England? Wonder if they know that there are no castles and knights or pygmies to traverse. Anyway, they came for lunch and after much kitchen Spanglish we worked out what they wanted to eat and I was only more more than happy to relieve them of their cash. A fine lunch time trade indeed and I hope that tomorrow we shall entertain further clients from other European counties. That will be a result!
It is getting easier. We now have a full compliment of staff, including reasonable people in the kitchen so we can now concentrate on the important things like customer service and all the nice front of house stuff. One day too we shall have Internet banking that works. That too will be a step forward again and perhaps a story for another time.
Until tomorrow.
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