Went over to Stubbington last night to visit Flo at the Study centre. She is having a fantastic time. Looking tired I thought, and dirty but she didn't stop talking at me for an hour and its great to see her so animated. No badgers yet (not surprising with all the noise they make) but she's been made a bird experet which she's very excited about and done so many activities (bridge building, making shelters, assault courses etc). No doubt she'll be exhausted when she gets home this afternoon.
Which is why we have called off our trip up to see Mum and Dad. It also enables Stanley to go to William's party at lunchtime, so probably for the best all round.
D came into the office this morning beaming, having picked up £150 from the Pink Broadway. Advertising money they have owed us since last April that we'd given up on. Apparently he just met the guy in a pub and... I daren't ask!
Anyway, means now that I have had a chance to go out and get Will's birthday present and I can reimburse Trx for the stuff she bought yesterday for the twins whose party Alice is going to this afternoon! So the cash her dad gave her for her birthday present remains intact and so hopefully she will be able to spend it on herself over the weekend.
Used some of the other cash to actually BUY a couple of albums just now in town. Finally, the Nation 12 album Electrofear is in the shops so I got that (ordered last week from HMV) and just flicking through the racks (uh oh) I found a copy of The Bedsit Tapes. I thought this was hard to get, so quite a result. Contains all the Mutant Momentsr tracks I think, but also 8-10 other early Soft Cell things from as far back as '78 when they just had a Revox and a couple of tape machines. Fantastic. not played it yet, but I expect more than a nod to Throbbing Gristle.
Interesting to see that any comments from Almond are absent from the sleevenotes...
Suddenly I only have about £15 left. Its all very well only being able to spend proper money, but Iit doesn't seem to last very long!
MYOB has arrived in the office and really is the business. It will take me a week I think to set it all up properly and a long time to learn exactly how it all works, but AT LAST we have a professional accounting package! I can keep a much closer eye on invoicing and stock levels, which (having now imported D's database) is really shot to bits at the moment.
He gets very excited about working out scripts and making theses interactive databases - which are very clever and work well - but then pays no attention to the detail he puts in! We have wasted so much time and embarassing phonecalls to people who don't owe us money after all, sending out invoices to people's private addresses (more than once, despite them telling us amendments). But that's my job, attention to detail, and half the reason we work well together.
Talking of which, I actually started cataloging the media archive a day or two ago. Hurrah for me!
"One city
Two nights
three reasons
Four lights"