Chairman’s Business Networking Blog, Thursday 28th April 2016.
22 members present and 3 visitors. Tony Bowhill, Planning Surveyor, Mark Parmenter Floor Sanding and Sheila Sutton from Crown Support.
It was nice to see Tina Walker at a meeting although we do hear from her every week.
The Ed Slot was something of a “call to arms” by Brian Painter. As good an Ed Slot I have heard; he set out all things we could do during the week as well as turning up for the meetings. However successful we are, if we all cranked up our performance just one notch in the way suggested by our Pilgrim we would all be better members and the meeting a better meeting. Well done Brian.
To follow Richard Reed’s 60 seconds and get the most out of it you needed to have seen a television program. Nobody appeared to have done so.
Peter Hood told of a high pressure hot water tank which sounded exciting if not dangerous, but Donna grabbed everybody’s attention by telling of a lady with £40,000 Kitchen who was installing a booth for which she was providing the material for the furnishings and which involved goldish upholstery and huge sequins. Her description of how exactly how this booth would turn out made it sound very expensively vulgar. Donna’s challenge is to make it tastefully unobtrusive and then take photographs to show us all.
Talking of booths, Paul Booth himself presented a 60 seconds that was far from vulgar and told of a client who deals with product testing.
All of this and not a squeak from the Naughty Table or the School of Whimsy. A jumbo jet crashing every day and building a glass tower next to a house, the whimsical contributions were from Messrs Painter and Shaw respectively. Mercifully Cooke was absent on holiday. By contrast David Plumley was all focused. He looked the part of an H. Rider Haggard character recently returned from a search for King Solomon’s Mines. Like his attire he was short sharp and to the point. He does free IT check-ups and his telephone number is 888442.
Jo Eastwood quoted from Shakespeare as did I but it got us nowhere. The Oscar accolade went to Carmel Jane who handed our personal copies to each member whose photographs she had taken last Thursday. She apparently took 23 photographs in 1 hour, and the skill and anacrity that she did it as well as the handouts quite rightly earned her the Oscar, if for no other reason than a thank you for all of her efforts.
The Meeting Secretary’s report confirmed us on track with our earnings which for this week totalled £15,200.00
It is the 10 minute round that was notable this week. Jo Eastwood decided on a wine tasting challenge for everyone and duly produced a bottle of white and red respectively which we all tasted and gave our judgment upon. Her able assistant John presented the tasting and we had to choose the wine from descriptions respectively produced by Jo, John and Steve Roach. An excellent diversion and a very pleasant 10 minute presentation. Of course it lasted 20 minutes but no one was counting.
Before I sign off I would like to share with you the thoughts that I had when Steve Roach first indicated Phoenix FM would be having an “Orient hour”. I had visions of the mystic east, All spices, scented perfumes and music in the background that normally accompanies the performance of belly dancers. Not if it is “Orient” as in Leyton Orient. As Leyton Orient is everybody’s favouritesecond favourite team there should be sponsors fighting to be selected. Best of luck with that Steve!!!!
Another great turnout. Keep it up and this includes the flow of visitors which is threatening to increase our membership every week. 2 out of the 3 who attended this week showed positive designs on joining. We will hope to see them next week.
The bar was raised significantly this week!!
Brian’s “Ed. Slot” was excellent and so much better than that guy last week. However, he did ruin the morning (in my eyes at least) by relating smoking deaths to plane crashes so I need to put everyone straight and advise you that flying is actually the safest mode of transport!! I cannot condone smoking though in any circumstance.
Carmel, what a wonder, very expertly taken photographs – made me look almost human.
And all rounded off by a wine tasting session organised by Jo E. (with help from Steve and “her” John).
Follow that guys.
yes excellent lively and vaguely informative meeting! Good to see our guests -lets try and work on 2-3 guests every week ! Thank you for the photo Carmel. . .
Wine tasting at 8am? Don’t mind if I do!
I classed the wine tasting as pre luncheon drinks and since we had finished breakfast this was quite in order! The meetings seem to get livelier and more enjoyable each week. We can have fun and do business. Excellent business format. Brilliant pics from Carmel.
Firstly, Richard – I aim to watch the Dispatches report on flight centre. It’s a shame none of us had seen it as the start of your 60 secs was like the crashing of a plane!
Excellent 20 minutes Jo, completely original – I can’t tell the difference between a fine wine and a lousy one which might explain why I was completely rubbish at the wine tasting challenge.
At least everyone seemed to get peoples names right this week..
Camel recently has taken our baby photos and they were fantastic
Great meeting, nice to see the visitors lets hope they come back and join. Loved the wine tasting. Have a great week.
Hmmm I’m just wondering how to weave a wine tasting into my next 10 minute presentation…John!?