“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …” It’s always good to attend EBF and enjoy the company of fellow members but it really was a miserable morning to set out in the dark for our weekly celebration of matters networking. Despite the feeling of gloom our members rose to the occasion. Various absences led to a 21 member attendance. Reasons to be cheerful: whilst custodian of the Oscar Vincent Goode had turned it from Oscar to Oscarina.
The Performance League
Terry Maylin has gone green. The colour coding for the league makes this the highest accolade from one week to another and he is well on course to winning the league with only a week to go.
Education Presentation
This was amalgamated into the 10 minute presentation to accommodate Toby Acton’s instructional presentation on the presentation of the 60m Second Round. We accordingly very promptly had the business card box whizzing round and we were into the 60 Second Round before we knew it.
The 60 Second Round
Although he had gone to the trouble of dressing up the Oscar, the Mayor of Gants Hill had also composed a poem which might well have been a contender for the Oscar/Oscarina if he had not been the awarding member this week.
Kieran Peaty was a bit Eeyore in presentation; he seems to have had a boring week in trying to get jobs on site! Ah the trials and tribulations of an architect!
Saj Sreedharan told of the funeral directors from hell who had no cool storage for his delivery of flowers; heaven knows how they were able to deal with the bodies without reduced temperatures.
Nick Cooke does inspections not surveys and deals with sloping, sagging and falling down; for roofs, walls and chimney breasts. Match the adjectives to the nouns
Terry Maylin told how he was always alive to untrustworthy clients but the culmination of his 60 seconds was the production of a blue pig “..….. take your legal work to the blue pig. Your bills will not be that big”. This was his version, sticking it to Ben Golding who was next up and who retaliated with the Purple Piggy. This plethora of pork perked us all up.
Kevin Radford will be having the facility of an underwriter in his office. Something to do with Lexicon or was it Lego?
Richard Reed was boasting various good value offers all over the world that are protected. No “Thomas Cook like” bookings through him.
John Freeman produced a cylindrical object that he told us was a water softener. How many you would need in a domestic setting?…. heaven knows!
And so to our new section – “rant of the week”. This goes to Stuart Smallcombe, bemoaning the complicated market for mobile phones but after 56 second of rant he pointed out that if you came to him you would get personal service and all your worries would disappear.
Scott Griffiths produced the quote of the week “in two months’ time the 90’s will be 30 years old…” His client “the Piccadilly Whip” sounds like a throwback to this glorious time in our lives.
I mentioned last week that Paul Booth is available for engagements including bar mitzvahs
Brian Painter engaged him this week to help illustrate the extent of the services that he offers. For the removal of a fear of wasps Brian is the “Bees Knees…” Is that a “dad” joke?
Tina Walker was equally quotable “ she will “take away your pain” and has now adopted the tag line “one fee and that’s me”
Allan Moller this week has been involved with getting a granny annex ready. The only thing he didn’t do was get the granny in.
Not a bad 60 second round that produced an Oscar award to Mason Edwards for emphasising the importance to him of his staff turning up smart in uniforms. Well done Mason. You deserve the Oscarina.
10-minute Training Session by Toby Acton
Stepping in to the breach of Jill Willis’s absence through cold/flu, he produced a slide show that illustrated how we should structure our 60 second Presentation and even managed to do great impressions of various members. Highly entertaining.
Great meeting and brilliant training from Toby that will help us all become better ‘networkers’
Plus there was nearly a ‘Pig Off’ 🤣
Looking forward to next weeks scary Halloween special!!
I had fun at this week’s meeting. But not as much fun as undressing the doll and re-styling Oscarina, just as my daughter came into the room #creepydad. Thank you for Mike “Toby” Yarwood for his uncanny mimicry of Alan Moller. It was as though he was in the room…
EBF is a good way to start despite the miserable weather as their is always good banter during the meeting. Thanks Toby for stepping in and producing an excellent training session. I am sure we all learnt something.
Well done for a good 10 minute presentation Toby. I am pleased to have one the oscarina, although i must say slightly disturbing cutting the head off of a Barbie lol.
See you all next week.
Yes thanks Toby for stepping into the breach very useful stuff!The blue TM Law pig will be back so watch out Ben Ben Golding….
Well done Toby, thanks for stepping in!
sorry to miss you all yesterday. Oscarina freaks me out
Terry has gone green with a blue piggy.
Very good blog indeed, well done Mason for winning the Oscarina, and well done Toby on educating everyone on their sixty seconds which added to a most delightful meeting even though the numbers were low.
Looking forward to the next meeting.
Despite the poor turn out it was a very good meeting with some excellent 60 seconds and Toby stepped into the breach to deliver a great 10mts, what’s not to like.
Really good meeting despite the dark morning It was a really bright and uplifting start to the day. Great 10 minutes Toby you gave some very good pointers look forward to seeing you all next week.
Well done Toby for your 10 minutes. Would love to use the pointer that was used for me! Great meeting too. See you all next Thursday.
It’s always sunny at EBF! Well done to the winners and Toby. Good effort from cross dressing Vincent.in
I’m a bit late to the party sorry… great meeting – small but perfectly formed! We all know Vince modelled the Oscar on his weekend attire…
See y’all in the morning!