Edition 180 Monday April 8th 2013
Hi ,Zzzzzzz, Zzzzzzz, Zzzzzzzz the sweet sound of an extra hours sleep, gold !! Only trumped this weekend by Sara Lee apple crumble topped with slowly melting Movenpick maple walnut ice cream, also gold!!,Ahhhh lifes simple little treats and pleasures !
An extended Easter break enveloping a spectacular family wedding and visits to old favourite Matua and new favourite Auckland Zoo were definite highlights as well as the compulsory indulgence in annual favs,chocolate caramel eggs and hot cross buns with more than enough butter soaking slowly throughout the raisins and cinnamon ohhhh my god gastro gold !!
Hmmmmmm if I met my so called complimentary friend last week after our super indulgent wicked Easter he may well have been excused(not) for commenting about weight gain?!! Needless to say last week saw a return to the triathlon training with April 21 loomiing large on the radar!!
Poor old Oscar Henderson has pulled up lame and we find ourselves considering a number of options regarding the funding of surgery/ treatment including another house mortgage!!! When I pass from this world I want to come back as a Vet !!! Some tough decisions already taken with Sir Paul on the market after a brief stay with us and some big calls still to make. Normal family drama at 48 the house of Jones !! I trust you all had an awesome Easter break and enjoyed the two short weeks. A time to focus on where to from here as the wonderful Autumn hues abound and the thermometer drops slowly as our seemingly endless Summer drifts ever so subtly toward Winter!
Have a great week, cheers Jonesey.
Harry and the other Henderson (Katie) love Oscar the magnificent to bits but reckon a donor hip is stretching that love a beach walk or forest track too far bro !!! :(
Luck is a funny thing the more unlucky you think you are the unluckier you seem to get?
Then when you don’t worry about it you seem to get lucky breaks as you go along and sometimes find that you can get on a roll with one break seeming to come on top of the other and so on.
I have always believed you make your own luck and by just getting on with things rather than dwelling on others good fortune or your own lack of it that things will invariably work out.
Classic Example;….We are currently trying to source a new truck for our fleet but find there are no suitable new or second hand ones available, we are also trying to employ a new sales person but also find there is not a lot of suitable people walking around looking for the type of role we are offering.
In both cases we have particular requirements that the market seems incapable of providing at present……….until !!!........drum roll please …..
I was talking to one of my hardworking suppliers about a new customer when he mentioned his wife was pregnant with their second child. He indicated he was looking to sell his business and move into a more normal role that allowed him to spend quality time with his wife and young family…….WOW talk about a number of lucky breaks all rolled together!! From a point where we had no extra truck or sales person we are now presented with ; 1x truck (right size and set up), 1x sales person (right attitude and experience) 1x existing customer base and revenue stream, huge potential for future growth in an associated but new business area to the Green Gorilla!!
Crikey,who would have thought a multi solution to our needs was just round the corner? We would never have discovered this opportunity if we were busy dwelling on how unlucky we were at not being able to find what we needed instead of being focused on getting on with life anyway!
Hang in there, solutions to all our problems and challenges and more than our share of luck surround us daily…………GOOD LUCK haha !!! J Don’t wait, make some of your own !!!! Cheers Jonesey
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