I've cheered up since the last entry. We hit a bit of a low with that one didn't we, my imaginary friends. I am sure that I have explained before how difficult I always find July. It is the bottom of the cashflow in our financial cycle and the workload, the weather and its associated stresses have made these entries rather less imaginative than I would like them to be.
I am in a much more earnest state of mind that usual because...
we are still weighing up these two large potential investments for the business. I can't wait to tell you more about them but it would be a little reckless to say anything yet. If we go ahead it will rather set the course of things for the next decade. In many ways I am ready for this committment now.
During the last ten years we had some really challenging times holding the business together. When we finally started making money and I was presented with choices, I suddenly found it difficult to establish what I actually wanted to do with them.
I did my fair share of travelling in 2004 and 2005 and behaved in a way that could be described as self-indulgent (a bit like this entry, I hear you say) and so the time seems right to stop being whimsical and to get stuck into something meaningful. The sad thing is I actually much prefer being whimsical but the whimsy won't put food on the table (at least not nice food like free-range vegetables or chocolate-fed chickens).
Hey, good news on the home front though. I have accepted an offer on my house from a cash buyer and can start planning my move. I have been at Windsor House this morning planning which jobs need doing first. I tend to buy with my heart rather than my head so most purchases that I make, whether business or personal, are on emotional rather than technical grounds. This means that most things come with hidden suprises or perils. Such as forgetting that it has an Aga, will I be able to work it? Hopefully my yorkshire puddings will still be the objects of ridicule that they are in a conventional oven.
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