The catalogue is almost ready

We’ve just had the proofs over for the show catalogue. We don’t want too many typos, at least, not as bad as the one shown below.

 

Shhh!

Many years ago, when I first got into exhibition organisation, My boss came back from a show committee meeting. You could tell it hadn’t gone well.  Apparently, he had a been talking to them about increasing visitor attendance and the managing director of a company with a household name had commented, (I promise this is true) “I don’t want too [...]

Forward thinking

The local news station was interviewing an 80-year-old lady because she had just got married for the fourth time. The interviewer asked her questions about her life, about what it felt like to be marrying again at 80, and then about her new husband’s occupation.

“He’s a funeral director,” she answered.

“Interesting,” the newsman thought…

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Totally useless trivia

re-arrange these letters to go somewhere in June

Ah Sunflower

Time to update?

If you’ve never visited NFE, you might be surprised at how fast the industry is changing

Kimberley is in training to run round the halls

I’ve never measured all the aisles in NFE but its a fair old distance, so I’ve got Kimberley in training for when she’s walking the show in June.

Black cars and funerals

After 40 or so years of motoring, I finally bought myself a Jaguar. No its not the new one, nothing like it. Its a good few years old but Jags have a style all of their own and at a certain age most men want some comfort when they drive.  Trouble is, it’s black and I’ve already [...]

A reminder of summer

Its still cold, very cold so here’s a reminder of what summer should be like:)

I cant go to the funeral, a squirrel has set fire to my garage!

This a is a really crazy story but all true…

Alby Tebbutt was in the final car of a funeral procession when he received a phone call to say his garage was burning down after a grey squirrel had chewed through an electrical cable and started a fire.

more here

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Fear of ghosts?

The internet can provide some amazing facts, or at least one persons twist on a myth. For example…

Some cultures took their fear of ghosts to an extreme. The Saxons of early England cut off the feet of their dead so the corpse would be unable to walk. Some aborigine tribes took the even more [...]