Happy New Year!

I hope you all had a fantastic New Years Eve! I did, so much so that I seem to have a slightly fuzzy memory after 1am!

It's time to put to the rest what was the difficult year of 2011, and look forward to more opportunities this new year. Most of Europe's leaders are warning of a hard 12 months to come. But instead of focusing on the negatives, try and see what opportunities these difficulties bring.

I wish you all the most prosperous year as possible!

Blazing A New Trail

Have you ever sat down in contemplation, looked at your life where you are right now, and thought: I think I need a fresh start somewhere else?


That's where I am right now. Certain personal events have caused me to analyse my friendships with certain people, which, when a lot of them make up the circles you travel in, is a hard one to swallow if your thinking you perhaps don't want to be involved with them.


Then there's where I live. I'm still at home, in Wakefield. A city which is struggling to inspire me at this moment in time. I visited New York over New Years, and I loved being there. There always seemed a chance of opportunity and positivity, something which Wakefield, and probably most of the country just doesn't have. I'm someone who feels has a lot of potential, but this city just isn't nurturing it. If I were ever to move, it would be out of the country...that's providing I get the opportunity and money to allow me to do so.


But then I look at what I have here; a family business where, all being well, I'll be sitting in the same seat as my Dad. I have some of my best friends still here, and a caring family. 


Maybe this is just me wanting to bury my head in the sand and is struggling to cope with an ex-girlfriend and hot 'n' cold mates. Simple fact is that I'm frustrated and either need calming, or have better opportunities presented to me.


Next post will be about windows...promise!

Thanks For Following!

This is a late one!

This is just a general message of thanks. Over the past week or so my visitor numbers and general traffic to this blog has risen a great deal. Hopefully this is due to some half decent content I'm striving to put on here.

When the content standards start to slip do let me know won't you and I'll pull my socks up right away!

Right. Bed. I'm sure I'll be speaking to some of you in the morning!

DBG

I Was Supposed To Be Doing Paperwork Tonight!

We're busy. Busy enough to the point where I really should have been working tonight rather than writing this. But, mistakes were likely at this time of night so I decided to leave that till the morning.

The leads we have been going on have all been quite large, one is so large and complicated (consisting of 88 frames, all of which are going to be black or cream woodgrain, and a lot of them circular and oddly shaped) in fact that it's going to take 2 weeks just to prepare. The rest have been full houses and just today a primary school has just gone ahead with me. It really does seem that the weather kept people indoors till the thaw came.

I want to share a bit of news with you all regarding pensions. We spoke to our accountants today and they informed us of desired changes the government want to make within three years. If they were to get their way they want to make it so that every business, in every industry, has an employee pension set up. This would consist of a portion of the employee wage, with the rest topped up by the company. This change could cause some serious repercussions. RCG informed us of the plan for the government to make it so that fitters were 'on the books', meaning weekly wages, holiday pay, the buying of tool etc. So couple that with the potential changes to expand company pensions to everybody, and you have yourself a great big pile of trading difficulties!

It does seem that the government is out to get from our industry as much as it can. We've had no relief, unlike other home improvement industries. So all we need now is the glass cartel to raise prices, and for Pilkington to shut down a couple of plants to create an artificial glass shortage to raise prices even further. They may as well, everybody else shit's on our industry!