So heres my first ever blog!
I know nothing about blogs, don't recall even reading one.
Am just gonna tap away and see what gives.
I'm coffee in hand with another one on the go in the pot; just because.
It's Sunday you see.
After being up with the sparrows everyday this week, heading out and about searching high and low for goodies; it's unusual to be sitting on my mac at 10:00 in the morning with a little time on my hands.
Sooooo where did it all begin.
I'd always had an interest in old things, am fortunate enough to see the inner beauty in something where others can't.
Same can be said of people I might add !
Was working in The City; The Ol' Smoke.
Had done for years, centuries even; or thats what it felt like.
Same old journey every day. Same old train every day. Same old people on the same old train everyday. Same old people sitting in the old same seats on the same old train every day. Same old people ignoring the same old people sitting in the same old seats they sat in on the same old train everyday. You get the picture.
It was the summer of 2004.
My life had changed fantastically in September last.
My beautiful daughter was born.
The most important and precious moment in my life.
Still is.
Six months of being a Dad flew by.
I wasn't spending the 'quality' time I wanted or needed to spend with my baby.
Alway asleep when I was awake.; Alway awake when I was asleep
Somethings gotta change !
I'd never been entirely comfortable in the corporate World, far too much..............nothingness.
I did though, for what is was worth; become a Master of BS Bingo. 'Blue Sky' this, 'Dashboard' that, 'Six Sigma' the other......
None of it ever meant anything.
My salesforce were now being paid more in bonuses to sit in 'Quality Deliverence' meetings then they were to get business in.
My bonuses were purely based on my team bringing business in.
My Bosses bonuses however; were paid out on the amount of 'Quality Initiatives' - ('HOUSE') my salesforce attended........
The World was getting 'outta whack'.
Still is.
Unbeknownst to me at the time; the beginning of the beginning was in sight!
I was often on the first train into Town in the morning and often on the last train home again, often also in the mornings..
Just to line some other buggers pockets. What to do?
I miss my little Girl.
Back in those days of train travel; 'social media' was more 'unsocial media' as it facilitated the art of blocking out as much of the World as possible with ya broadsheet.
Very early one morning; on my journey home; by chance; some bounder had left a copy of 'Loot' (Loot being a newspaper precursor to eBay et al. Still going strong. You buy and sell stuff) on the seat next to mine.
Never read it before, never had a need to.
Poop rag 'Not much sport' I remember thinking to myself. Then.............
HOLY MOLY.
KERRRPOW
WALLOP
There it was.
Jumping out from the page.
'Architectural Reclamation Business; FOR SALE'.
Later that morning I called the number.
Popped in for 'a butchers' the very same afternoon.
This was Thursday btw.
Friday: Saw my Bank Manager.
Monday: Wrote the cheque.
Tuesday: Bugger.
Later on Tuesday: Really. What have I just done
Same Tuesday: much later: Bugger, Bugger, Bugger
Wednesday: Woke to the realisation I was £30K 'in the hole' and of never having run my own business, let alone ever having bought or sold an antique in anger.
Bugger.
Thursday : Spent the day Blue Skying, trying to restructure my Dashboard and wondering what the hell a Six Sigma was
God, I wish I'd paid more attention in those boardrooms.
Bugger
It was though; however; a done deal.
No going back
Only forward.
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