Calling Mr Jockman
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Hi Phil, just got home and wanted to say what a great pleasure it was to meet you and the lovely Karen in Manchester.
Apologies for my good lady bending your ear on the phone for half an hour. Welcome to my world.
After chatting to you, my colleague and I continued to sample the finest liquid refreshment money could buy.
Regretfully Steve was lightweight and left me in the Hotel bar at 9.30pm with a Finnish couple whose only aim in life was to introduce me to an unheard of variety of Vodkas.
2.30am they are by now my life long friends in spite of a huge language barrier. Early night for me.
Anyhow, great to make your acquaintance. Look forward to meeting up again.
Tony
Oh sh*t just seen the bar bill. I could of been well on the way to getting her ladyship a one-77.
Apologies for my good lady bending your ear on the phone for half an hour. Welcome to my world.
After chatting to you, my colleague and I continued to sample the finest liquid refreshment money could buy.
Regretfully Steve was lightweight and left me in the Hotel bar at 9.30pm with a Finnish couple whose only aim in life was to introduce me to an unheard of variety of Vodkas.
2.30am they are by now my life long friends in spite of a huge language barrier. Early night for me.
Anyhow, great to make your acquaintance. Look forward to meeting up again.
Tony
Oh sh*t just seen the bar bill. I could of been well on the way to getting her ladyship a one-77.
Edited by lady topaz on Monday 17th October 17:05
Tony you were the most cockney fella I've ever met..............then Steve walked in 
Good to see you - even better to speak with Di on the phone - you were both as I expected.
Great to hear of your plans with the Company (and its history). The vino tinto was starting to go down too well as I'm sure you noticed, so I think my gorgeous trophy wife was right to drag me off to Harvey Nics.
There were some sights at the show, though nothing ever matches up to the London one.
BTW tell you MD he never bought a round !!
Speak soon matey
Good to see you - even better to speak with Di on the phone - you were both as I expected.
Great to hear of your plans with the Company (and its history). The vino tinto was starting to go down too well as I'm sure you noticed, so I think my gorgeous trophy wife was right to drag me off to Harvey Nics.
There were some sights at the show, though nothing ever matches up to the London one.
BTW tell you MD he never bought a round !!
Speak soon matey
Jockman said:
Tony you were the most cockney fella I've ever met..............then Steve walked in
Good to see you - even better to speak with Di on the phone - you were both as I expected.
Great to hear of your plans with the Company (and its history). The vino tinto was starting to go down too well as I'm sure you noticed, so I think my gorgeous trophy wife was right to drag me off to Harvey Nics.
There were some sights at the show, though nothing ever matches up to the London one.
BTW tell you MD he never bought a round !!
Speak soon matey
COCKNEY !!!!!!! I may live SE but my origins are Welsh, hence my guttedness re the result against the surrender monkies. We was robbed. The Cockney twang I confess comes from working with saaf peeps for many a long year.Good to see you - even better to speak with Di on the phone - you were both as I expected.
Great to hear of your plans with the Company (and its history). The vino tinto was starting to go down too well as I'm sure you noticed, so I think my gorgeous trophy wife was right to drag me off to Harvey Nics.
There were some sights at the show, though nothing ever matches up to the London one.
BTW tell you MD he never bought a round !!
Speak soon matey
Tony
I suppose the accent longevity depends on your age when you left the Vaaallllleeeys.
I only had 10 years of a Scottish slum before I jumped ship so I am now the proud owner of a relatively 'confused' accent. My folks still speak broad Scots.
U woz indeed robbed on the Rugby field. A three week ban could've been worse when you look at the 6 month?? ban handed out to the Samoan?? guy. And people moan about the 4.5 hour ban handed out to Shrek Rooney for an assault that would have landed him a custodial sentence off the football pitch.
I take my hat off to your liver, though mate
I only had 10 years of a Scottish slum before I jumped ship so I am now the proud owner of a relatively 'confused' accent. My folks still speak broad Scots.
U woz indeed robbed on the Rugby field. A three week ban could've been worse when you look at the 6 month?? ban handed out to the Samoan?? guy. And people moan about the 4.5 hour ban handed out to Shrek Rooney for an assault that would have landed him a custodial sentence off the football pitch.
I take my hat off to your liver, though mate
lady topaz said:
I have this feeling you are no wall flower.
Di
Easy Tiger.....The only daytime drinking I would do Di is on the red wine, preferably French, but it was a decent crianza on offer. I don't know how people drink stella the fella without getting bloated.Di
Tony was a consumate gentleman throughout the afternoon - even after he passed out
Slarti said:
I should have gate crashed. I could've told you all about my latest enterprise. The one that could make you richer still (Jockman). Fancy investing a couple of hundred K on the next big thing in software? I already have customers.
I know, as far as segways go that was weak,
Thanks for the offer Slarti - will give you a heads up next time we are in the area.I know, as far as segways go that was weak,
As for investing, matey, I'm going to evoke golden rule number 1 - stick to things you understand and know about
Jockman said:
Thanks for the offer Slarti - will give you a heads up next time we are in the area.
As for investing, matey, I'm going to evoke golden rule number 1 - stick to things you understand and know about
Can't argue with that. I bought a small but very quality restaurant chain a few years ago. What a mistake that was!As for investing, matey, I'm going to evoke golden rule number 1 - stick to things you understand and know about
Slarti said:
...I bought a small but very quality restaurant chain a few years ago....
Unless you know what you're doing, avoid the restaurant side. Why do we all harbour a desire to get into restaurants (myself included) as if it were some kind of lucrative money-spinning arena ??18 months ago I was offered 15% of a colleague's restaurant for £40K. It was always busy etc so I looked at the books. Without even a ratio analysis I could see problems. The guy was a good chef but poor with the business side. We liquidated the business earlier this year rather than waste £40K.
Always, always do the analysis. Then ask yourself 'Why'
Slarti said:
Jockman said:
Thanks for the offer Slarti - will give you a heads up next time we are in the area.
As for investing, matey, I'm going to evoke golden rule number 1 - stick to things you understand and know about
Can't argue with that. I bought a small but very quality restaurant chain a few years ago. What a mistake that was!As for investing, matey, I'm going to evoke golden rule number 1 - stick to things you understand and know about
michael gould said:
Slarti said:
Jockman said:
Thanks for the offer Slarti - will give you a heads up next time we are in the area.
As for investing, matey, I'm going to evoke golden rule number 1 - stick to things you understand and know about
Can't argue with that. I bought a small but very quality restaurant chain a few years ago. What a mistake that was!As for investing, matey, I'm going to evoke golden rule number 1 - stick to things you understand and know about
LordBretSinclair said:
It was probably Ego 'n' Ronnie
No it wasn't..however we did look to buy out the stockton heath branch to stick one of our restaurants in its place. I bought a holding company that owned a number of brands, one which was http://emnirestaurant.com/ . Anyway, its all ancient history now - shut it down. The hassle wasn't worth the meager returns and with raw material prices going through the roof with consumer price pressure bearing down on us I decided the best thing was to walk away. I'm not a restaurant guy. My forte is technology and I've decided I'm going to keep it that way! I reckon I'd be in a bigger, faster Aston if it wasn't for that blip!
Calm down chaps will ye !!!
The event at the weekend was http://www.professionalbeauty.co.uk/site/Default.a...
I am aware that both of you are young virile studs, but neither of you have a bombshell Beautician for a wife, whose job it is to make contacts in this arena.
Di's OH, Tony Five Fingers, has a company operating in this industry, hence his interest. Plus, of course, Manchester contains the odd pub or two which also appeals to him
Yes, it's hard work. Yes you are constantly being harrased by leggy blondes. Sure, there are young girls in bikinis getting free spray tans...
So I cannot for the life of me understand why you would want to be there
The event at the weekend was http://www.professionalbeauty.co.uk/site/Default.a...
I am aware that both of you are young virile studs, but neither of you have a bombshell Beautician for a wife, whose job it is to make contacts in this arena.
Di's OH, Tony Five Fingers, has a company operating in this industry, hence his interest. Plus, of course, Manchester contains the odd pub or two which also appeals to him
Yes, it's hard work. Yes you are constantly being harrased by leggy blondes. Sure, there are young girls in bikinis getting free spray tans...
So I cannot for the life of me understand why you would want to be there
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