It’s all change at The Watercooler as it becomes the location for my new website. The Random Ramblings at The Watercooler business blog will be incorporated into the website and new posts will start again soon.
David
Jan 222011
Apr 042010
Wood Pigeons have replaced the squirrels as the No.1 raider of food put out for smaller birds. In fairness I don’t mind the pigeons having their fair share. But they pushed their luck too far by gobbling up everything in seconds like some feathered Dyson vacuum cleaner. However, your cunning editor was a match for them. Soon a wire mesh tunnel was erected over the food. The small birds could enter but not the pigeons. Result!
Ah, back to the drawing board, the more athletic pigeons have perfected the technique of extending their necks so that they can reach in to continue the feast. First the squirrels outmanoeuvred me every time, now it’s the pigeons. If only all businesses could adapt so quickly to new challenges.
I was considering keeping hens. I wonder if it’s wise. I might find myself replaced by an egg laying blogger.
Apr 012010
No I know you’re not a fool. Clearly not otherwise you wouldn’t be here at The Watercooler. In fact I imagine that you are a most discerning person. It’s just that April 1st seemed the perfect day for the official launch of a blog that is intending to keep smiling whatever the weather. My friend Trevor Gay says that, “It’s not compulsory to be miserable at work.”
As you are discerning and, no doubt, erudite, you may have noticed that I started without you. That was just for practice while I got my hand in. Don’t worry, you haven’t missed much … although if you have a few spare moments you could always read backwards as it were. Normally there will be just one post a day. After all, I don’t want to stop you from getting on with useful things. But as it’s launch day, I may just pop back a bit later to see how you are getting on.
David
Mar 282010
OK, it would have been a better headline if I’d been American and could have spelled it ‘tired’. But whichever way you spell those round black rubber things, Jenson Button’s tyre change decision won him the Australian Grand Prix. Team mate Lewis Hamilton had his tyre change call made by the team and they got it wrong. Does this mean that McLaren don’t trust Lewis’s judgement or maybe he doesn’t have the confidence to question them? Button certainly made a case for letting the front line make the final decision.
Jenson’s early tyre change also demonstrated the benefit of doing something daringly different from your competitors, who then followed sheep-like. But by then they had lost the advantage.
