Tuesday

We wake up to a lovely sunny day, take Josh (our great doggy) for a walk and get ready for the day ahead. First on the agenda is to sort out the petty cash and a few accounting bits and pieces, then its off to a BS Town centre partnership meeting to discuss CHRISTMAS..! Christmas lights, when they go up when they come down, can we afford them, how we placate the 30 people (out of 50,000) who think they ruin our planet by turning them on..? How do we raise the cash if the "councils" withdraw funding, how do we raise the cash to make BS look really festive? Late nights, Italian markets, PR, Advertising, BS "green" shopping bags, FREE car parking day, the marketing of BS in general, Etc. Etc. Etc.

(I'm the one in the middle)

Good meeting which straightened lots of issues out ready for CHRISTMAS. Then we turned to the Town centre partnership Action plan for 2008/09 which sets out our plans to improve the shopping experience for the people of BS. What has all this got to do with Jewellery, I hear you ask, absolutely nothing BUT it has everything to do with improving the surroundings in which Ce' The Jeweller trade and the type of town we want to live in, I think.

Anyway, Jewellery..! I have to get into the workshop and start the repairs for this week, with a bank Holiday next week I need to clear the decks a bit. I also have a few mounting jobs to complete for pending engagements and birthdays etc. During which we may have the odd (meaning 1 or 2 or 3) customer in, as we speak, I'm off to help one......................Lady looking for earrings for sister in-law, couldn't find any "cheap" , tacky ones to suite. They love each other really..! Jan & James, have I not mentioned James? He is a great asset, expensive but an invaluable member of our team, very arty and far too intelligent to work here. You will meet the others as we go along. Jan & James have been busy this morning with a few "odd" customers and perking up the Hearts on Fire display, doing the post and keeping everything going.

I'm off now to do some work, then we have Julie from Raymond weil to show us whats new from the annual Basel trade fair, at the close of play tonight we will all go out for a meal and talk business, dogs, Bournemouth amongst many other things. I have also booked in my marketing guy to see me, at the same time, Jan told me off but we will get round it.

BREAKING NEWS...........

I have just found out that someone is trying to bring our website down, underhand tack tics or what, by downloading 100's of 1000's of pages from our site they attempt to make it unusable. Blimey who have we upset? Apparently it's an NTL user, so they will know exactly who it is but of course because to the protection handed to crooks and tricksters they hide behind the "data protection" act. Anyway, its nice to know we are making enough of an impact on someone for them to really not want our website around. They WILL ultimately fail, so if you know how we can find out exactly which NTL customer is responsible, please let me know and I'll send Jan round to sort them out..!

Bye,