Posted April 14th, 2010 by admin
So many e mail footers these days suggest that you should think carefully before printing!
I agree! Totally!
Then, having thought, please click ‘print’
It is an ecologically sound thing to do. You are not contributing to the disappearance of the rain forests. You are not saving anything: on the contrary, you are risking [...]
Posted April 13th, 2010 by admin
Normal service: is that good or bad?
Having spent all day taking my sad little car all the way to Dorset, I should be working normally from tomorrow (Wednesday) I have however, been at work Tuesday evening: setting up a couple of Orders of Services for funerals, so that the clients can see proofs [...]
Posted April 6th, 2010 by admin
Hmmm, yes: Easter has been and gone, and so has the diff on the works ‘van’, losing a tooth or two from a planetary gear, at the Croft Circuit on Easter Monday.
So, I have given myself another days holiday, Tuesday 13th, to take my poorly car to be fixed in Dorset, so back at work [...]
Posted March 31st, 2010 by admin
I shall be closed over Easter, Easter Monday is the first sprint of the new season, and the works van (http://www.pbase.com/richardsmith/image/119223460) will be screeching around the Croft circuit near Darlington. http://www.speedmog.co.uk/
Back at work on Tuesday 6th, then away for a few days, Jane is singing with her choir http://www.singliveuk.com/ in The Basilica in Venice on [...]
Posted March 26th, 2010 by admin
Every month, the ‘click’ meter on one of my machines is read and recorded, and I am billed accordingly. Nigel the Rotweiller has just been to read the meter, and in the last year, this one machine has run nearly half a million impressions: this is just one of my printers. A busy little thing!
Posted March 3rd, 2010 by admin
I received this morning via e mail, a double sided A4 newsletter from my veterinary surgery client in Shropshire. By 11.00 am, it had been printed (700 copies) packed and collected by my carrier, and should be delivered to the vets practice before they are on their second cup of coffee tomorrow.
Buy a Wormer and [...]
Posted March 2nd, 2010 by admin
One of the local village residents has called in an hour ago with a job: she is setting up a gardening and ironing service and wanted some business cards. Good on yer Jill, hope it goes well for you. Your cards are ready to be collected!
Posted March 2nd, 2010 by admin
though this time it’s a club’s membership book. The artwork/typesetting has been sent to me as a Word Doc, which is fine. On one of my computers, it looks fine: ready to print. However, when I opened the file on my ‘workshop’ computer, the type was all over the place. Can’t quite understand it! Still, [...]
Posted February 25th, 2010 by admin
So I took the final draft to my client today, a delightful gent who I would have put in his 70s, yet he is over 90, a couple of days before he was due to venture off on holiday for a month. “I hope you have nice weather”, I told him. His reply: “Frankly dear [...]
Posted February 23rd, 2010 by admin
I have been working on a book for a couple of months now, for a client who is a retired GP and Clinical Psychologist. It is a fascinating read: usually, I do not have time to actually read my clients work, but as this has been proofed, amended, re-proofed etcetera, I have a couple of [...]