Tonight josh was "invested" at Beavers - part of the Scout troop. It is a great name to describe this process as I fully believe that joining Scouts is an investment. Anything that teaches you about leadership, team work and life skills and at the same time you consider to be fun is definately an investment.

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I love watching my kids. I learn a lot from them especially those lessons that you forget as adults.

Zak is practicing his letters and the only route to success for him here is to practice and keep on practicing. This simple life lesson is so often overlooked. I want it now. Who cares about practicing?

D'oh!

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I have one of those amazing jobs, where bring work home with you is a good thing.

The other day at our work team meeting, I told them that I expected to use the saunas in our new showroom. I know, I know - what bad boss am I. Telling the team to take an hour or two out of their day and spend it relaxing in a sauna.

The reason I did that - one word. Integrity.

The other day - a double-glazing sales guy came to see me. If they windows were...

I wrote this almost 10 years ago. It is still as true today as it was when I wrote it:

To do the will of Him who sent me
Succeed at home first.
Be a man of total integrity - never to compromise on this
To love first, then walk on water
Be a hilarious, joyful and quick to do it giver.
To be a friend of God
To be response-able
Be a Friend
Seek counsel. Give counsel.
Put people before productivity
Quick to repent
Make the most of every...

Today I came to flew in from Manchester to Stuttgart, Germany. Nothing unusual about this trip – I do it several times a year to see Klafs. For this trip, I will go to the Interbad show.

That aside, I was amused by the differences between our two countries.

I arrived at Manchester airport at 7.30 this morning and it is in chaos. The computer system for Thomas Cook was down, and the queues were extraordinary. I had to fight my way through to...

Well - here goes. This is a simple publish test from my iPhone. If you can read then the question is answered!

Ps come on England

I finally got around to joining all the blogs that I had (more for my sanity than anything else). So here you have Rhemabytes, my photography and photoshop blog as well as my business blog and family one too!

One place for me now to keep everything just ticking over. Hopefully the menus will make it easy for you to find your way around and I hope you like the changes.

For those of you who don't know my story - in the mid 90's I went to work for a company called Severn Leisure which was run by Simon O'Shaughnessy. I wanted to be in business and I respected Simon as a business man - so I when the opportunity arose for me to work for him - I jumped at it as a few years being mentored would be great.

In 2001 Simon left the UK and went to live in New Zealand (as you do). So I had 5 years of working with him - which...

The last few weeks have been interesting for me, both on a personal level and on a business level. This month has seen my company "grow up", and take a leap forward from being a small business with a small business mentality to a more professional, grown up company (without being stifled or loosing the fun).

We have moved our office in to a new place with a showroom facility - and we have all been excited by the move - but in the midst...