Celebrated Porn Star of the sixties/seventies outed

The first meeting of the New Year and a very good meeting it was.

23 Members present and one visitor from the Wildlife Trust.

The Performance League

Ellen Beckenham was the worthy winner of last months League; a birthday and a cold unfortunately kept her away,  her certificate is here for next week.

Education Presentation

Jill Willis produced a rather more detailed offering than is normally the case.  Her theme was social media.  As we look forward to the New Year we should make sure that we represent ourselves on social media.  The four areas are Twitter, Linked In, Face Book and Instagram; she dealt with their detriments and benefits.  Her final rallying call was” be inspirational”. Worthy thoughts for the beginning of a new year.

New Member Induction

Always a pleasure to induct a new member.  Simon Essex was this week’s most recent victim.  Welcome Simon.

The 60 Second Round

With a theme of the New Year’s resolutions that we might have for our businesses.

Ben Golding kicked off and his message was emphasised by the much-appreciated turquois pig lighting up our lives.

Alan Moller has just been updated with the new regulations that have come into force this month.  Apparently, he attended a 3-day training course and is therefore ready for anything.

Kevin Radford was positively on the prowl for new business. If you have dealt direct over house insurance send him details of your household insurance and he will see if he can beat it.

Matt Barry is looking to expand into local businesses and new start-ups for the year however John Freeman is unchanged wanting “quick in and out” if possible.

Jill Willis whose Ed Slot was directed towards her knowledge of her business also declared that last year she wrote 150,000 words.  I have problems counting the number of words for a Blog, an amazing calculation.  It will be interesting to see how many she does this year and compare them in a years’ time.

Terry Maylin produced leaflets for you all, advertising TM Law’s wares. He was particularly keen to point out my updated photograph, apparently a photograph on earlier leaflets  gave the impression of a sixties porn star.  Outed, in one fell scoop!  His initial suggestion was that I looked like a fifties porn star but even I am not that old…. it was in the late sixties and early seventies that I made my name.  I must assure everybody that I retired in the early eighties.

Mike Rogers was in reflective mood.  He revealed that his wife had warned him against appearing in his 60 second presentations as being a grumpy old git.  Despite his best endeavours ,he did nothing to dispel this impression.  It’s nice to know that some things never change.

The Naughty Corner were on good form.  Stuart Smallcombe has been inclined to grapple with tenants expectations as to the speed of their internet.  Apparently half a megabit will not create very good performance.  He is into gigabits now however, and that will solve the problems. Howard Bullock was positively whimsical over everything that he had forgotten over the Christmas/New Year holiday break.  The good news, he remembered his name and no doubt will go on to remember more as the year progresses.  Dean Caldon’s explanation as to how he locked himself out of a property won him the Oscar and the amusement of all members.

John Hammond was positive in looking for intercom systems to assist with control of access.

Tina Walker’s resolution is to be more involved with Linked-in.  Richard Reed’s resolution was much more homely.  He is looking to cut down on sugar.  He must decide whether his attraction to members and his use as a travel adviser is based upon his sweetness.

Toby Acton, as a business coach, is very interested in finding out what everybody’s New Year’s resolutions were and how he can help people achieve their goals.

This weeks statistics and points of note

• 23 Members present
• 1 Visitor
• £24,000.00 worth of business recorded.
• 28 referrals
• Ellen Beckenham was last month’s performance league winner
• Dean Caldon won the Oscar.

Synergy Team Meeting

Paul reported on the Finance Groups meeting on Tuesday of this week.  Members who have no attended Synergy Meetings, were encouraged to come along and try it at least once.

10-minute presentation by Anna Marie Cooper

I was Anna Marie’s turn this week and as well as putting photographs of various of her subjects around the walls she had a slide show available and produced a quiz that left us all scratching our heads.  The highlight of her presentation was a description of the contents of her photography bag that she takes with her when ever she goes to take photographs,  Silk gloves for when it is cold, stiletto covers to enable brides to walk on the grass to have their photos taken, plastic bag for fuzzy views and so on, highly entertaining presentation.  We now know not only the things that she will do but also the things she won’t do.  Apparently she would not be interested in trying to help me revive my porn star career, but on reflection perhaps wise.

Referrals and testimonials round

28 referrals and the amount of money recorded led to a very positive and fruitful round.

Terry Maylin as well as outing me also announced to the meeting Alan Shaw’s retirement.  I personally found it a devastating announcement given how important to me he is a source of inspiration for my Blog. He was at the heart of the School of Whimsey and I will miss him.  More than that I might very well disband the School of Whimsey, but do not feel too relaxed about this, I will be creating other cliques for your amusement.

Let us see next week if we can up our numbers.