I MET A MAN BUT I HAVE NO IDEA WHY.
I had a meeting today who bought a business that was in trouble fifteen years ago. He picked it up for £300,000 and sold it a couple of years ago for...
...£172,000,000 !
Not bad eh ?
I know it's not all about money but if I then tell you he went on to take over Great Ormond Street's fund raising duties and more than tripled the revenue to £81 million in two years, he sounds pretty neat doesn't he ?
His original business he realised was a vehicle for taking people to almost anywhere they wanted to go, mentally at least, for a just a little over a tenner. Any ideas what it might have been. Guess the business, go ahead.
We are now in business together, how ? I'm not quite sure. What can we do for each other ? I'm not quite sure about that either but I'm looking forward to finding out.
CLP.
2008.
X.
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That sounds VERY interesting Christophe,
Is it a ride in a tardis? He could've built one with the proceeds for the sale of his biz!!
Or maybe it's a Total Recall machine?
Or it could 'simply' be an hypnosis CD and you could imagine that you'd gone anywhere - your subconscious mind can't tell the difference between a real and an imagined thought - don't ya know!
Isn't business exciting !!
Good luck to you both
PeeBee
Greetings Ter CLP & ALL,
Bingo Star ere.
CLP - Sounds abit like Stelios of Easyjet but the the 'take anybody anywhere mentally' 'as thrown me, aka not taken me anywhere!!!!!!
Maybe it was an internet type business?
CLP man - I was listening ter yer nana's & lala's with Jono S yesterdee & I got all but one wrong too.
And as for the tune with the woman (fogotten 'er name) 'itting the 'igh notes with the la, la, laaaa, la, laaaaaaaaaaa she cracked me glass of water - know what am sayin'!!!!
I don't know why sometimes R2 don't play some of the great tunes in the top40.
There's a brilliant duet at present by Kayne West & Chris Martin called 'ome Coming!
Yer wanna 'ear Chris Martin's piano playing & singing in that... it's a very catchy tune!
'is genius piano playin goes.......
(fast) Der,der,der,derr,derr,dlerr, da,da,der,der,der,der,dellerrrrr, der!
with 'im singing a kind of yodelling......
Lloyyy-yoyyy-yer..... lloyyy-yoyyy-yer!
Lloyyy-yoyyy-yer..... lloyyy-yoyyy-yer!
A tell yer CLP it's a really catchy brilliant tune - I don't know why R2 ain't playin it!
Check it out CLP - know what am sayin'!!!!!
'ope this 'elps!
Chow!
Is he an Internet person?
Is he Stelios?
Is he the person who wants to give me lots and lots of money so that I can set up my wee Stationers shops and live happily ever after?
DWNB
PS - Is the Man Who Fired Noelle Gordon!!!!!
DWNB
PS - Is the Man Who Fired Noelle Gordon!!!!!
I found him.
Is Filim Maker.... Woo wooo
dwnb
dwnb
Take people anywhere.?
Is it books or film hire ...you could be taken
anywhere when reading a book, or watching a
film....! ..?
X R
Christoff.
I hope it's not the chap who came up with the Sat Nav.
I've never bin told what to do by anybody else in me life, so I'm buggered if I'm goin' to let me car do it. Plus if I wanted to end up in a flood in Norfolk I'd find it meself. How come we're told we'll be hung drawn and quartered if we use our phones whilst driving (I don't, by the way), and yet we're fiddlin' around starin' at the Sat Navs. Brain dead, that's what that is.
Grrrrr.
Sorry if I'm a bit testy. I've spent the day avoidin' Renee who's made 10 gallons of beetroot juice to keep me blood pressure down.
Not that I've ever had the slightest problem with the blood pressure but that's irrelevant.
Anyway, any damn fool knows it's not what's in the beetroot juice that keeps the blood pressure low. It's the fact that your head is on a low level whilst it's down the toilet pan after drinkin' it.
Plus one flush and you'll ruin your hairdo, then it's right back up again.
Pointless if you ask me.
Clodagh.xx
Please make the blog work!!!!
If this by any miracle does get through, please can we have All Night Long by Lionel Ritchie as the first song on ARF??
T xxxxxxxx
Chris,
First time blogger here.
Is it the guy who developed broadband? Or rather the instruments - routers and the like - that broadband sails the earth upon?
Chezzie Da WonderDog
Morning all :)
Just a little over a tenner? Mentally?? Hmm. All I can think of is recordings.
Been up in Manchester these past couple of days so I've just caught up with the blog, it's touching to think how loved all these folk are who've passed away. Amazing. My mum's in the position now of just waiting, my gran's not really there any more, just a shell waiting to die. It's really sad. I'm wondering how many of her friends are still left, or if she's managed to outlive them all. It's going to be weird when she does die, because it's almost like she's passed away already.
Ah best move on before I get upset.
Oh the memory thing! My dad's been teasing me about getting old - I woke up confused 3 nights in a row at my parents' house, wondering where I was. Not done that before. Ever. Kind of a pride thing to be able to wake up and know where I am all the time! Talking of pride, and sat-navs, it will be a sad day when I am forced into owning a sat-nav. I managed to find my way all over the place on Monday, by myself, not getting lost at all, driving to places I've only been a couple of times before (and never driven myself).
Pancakes tonight hopefully as I missed pancake night on Tuesday!
Mmmm thirsty thursday :) grief I need a drink after being put through my paces at the gym this morning.....
Loves
Jeni xx
Morning all :)
Just a little over a tenner? Mentally?? Hmm. All I can think of is recordings.
Been up in Manchester these past couple of days so I've just caught up with the blog, it's touching to think how loved all these folk are who've passed away. Amazing. My mum's in the position now of just waiting, my gran's not really there any more, just a shell waiting to die. It's really sad. I'm wondering how many of her friends are still left, or if she's managed to outlive them all. It's going to be weird when she does die, because it's almost like she's passed away already.
Ah best move on before I get upset.
Oh the memory thing! My dad's been teasing me about getting old - I woke up confused 3 nights in a row at my parents' house, wondering where I was. Not done that before. Ever. Kind of a pride thing to be able to wake up and know where I am all the time! Talking of pride, and sat-navs, it will be a sad day when I am forced into owning a sat-nav. I managed to find my way all over the place on Monday, by myself, not getting lost at all, driving to places I've only been a couple of times before (and never driven myself).
Pancakes tonight hopefully as I missed pancake night on Tuesday!
Mmmm thirsty thursday :) grief I need a drink after being put through my paces at the gym this morning.....
Loves
Jeni xx
Hi,
Its certainly not the founder of ORANGE TELECOMMUNICATIONS... i've never heard such a shambles from them when updating a contract... i've been without my business phone for three days now, whilst their system 'updates'.... they do not appreciate the £ 1000's i am loosing not being in contact with my customers.... they will re-emburse a few dfays line rental !!!
DO NOT PURCHASE AN ORANGE MOBILE PHONE
IF YOU HAVE AN ORANGE MOBILE PHONE AND ARE CONSIDERING RENEWING YOUR CONTRACT - DONT! YOU WILL BE LEFT WITHOUT A PHONE FOR DAYS!!!
Yo CLP & ALL,
Bingo Star ere.
Me earlier blog I think 'as been lost again!!!!!!
CLP - 'ope yer 'ad a good nights sleep!
If so yer might be 'cos yer took me advice about lettuce... maybe a lettuce n' 'umous sandwich washed down with a glass of Bored Dough Red #9???
Works for me all those sleep inducing chemicals found in lettuce!
PS - I'll try ter bang me 2008 predictions on the later blog before the year's nearly 'alf over.... mean't ter do it 1st of Jan!
Chow!
Food for Thought - UB40 please
By the way, can anyone let me know, what character (cartoon or real) did Wayne Rooney look like last night with that fluffy sort of beard? It's not Shrek or Desperate Dan. Any help would be appreciated. Might even be a childs toy.
Liz x
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