Mmm and that's just the bloggin - have I taken any exercise? Nope. Took an aeroplane ... up to Edinburgh on Thursday. Met a fantastic bunch of people who invest in businesses called Par Equity. https://www.parequity.com/profile/our-business/
Not often you hear a bunch of investors described so positively. But they're not your typical investment types. Yes they're dead clever and switched on, but they've all got hands on personal experience of running businesses so they know what it's like at the coal face, they get properly involved and actually help advise the people running the business (not just giving them a hard time for not hitting targets), they are amazingly well connected and can introduce you to almost anyone you care to name .. and best of all they seem like a bunch of really nice, interesting people. So as and when we look for investment, they'll be our first port of call.
And Friday was even more hopeless on the health front but very enjoyable .. back in time for lunch with my dear friend Jen who is MD of super brilliant brand and design agency Start Creative: http://www.startcreative.com/. We shared the joys and woes of running businesses over a large glass of wine to celebrate her birthday. Then onto a very cool new barrrr and restaurant called 86: http://www.86restaurant.co.uk/ to meet with our very well connected, super clever, NED, Simon Holden. So more drinking .. and still no exercise.
And today, more action at the laptop relieved by an hour of watching Honor in her new role of goal keeper ... at which she is brilliant; she was voted "man of the match". She saved more goals than I could count. Pity I didn't manage to capture her in action but here she is all kitted up. Usual comment from all the parents .. "well in my day we didn't have so much as a shin pad between us".
Good news tho .. we're back for some more miles of the South Ups tomorrow .. which will go some way to making amends for such a poor week!
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