One week's leave

So this is now my week off. The week started with massive gales affecting the whole of Britain, Friday night was the worst. the wind was hammering the back of our house all night. We suffered some minor structural damage but two large shrubs were uprooted in our back garden. Spent Monday clearing the shrubs away and taking the garden waste to the tip.

I've played a couple of rounds of golf, one competition on Saturday, it still was extremely windy and the competition was fun, scored 14 points but wasn't the worst by a long way.

I've managed to watch a couple of films, saw Clint Eastwood's Flags of my Fathers which was brilliant but extremely moving.

Doing some reading and have almost finished Bones of the Hills by Conn Iggulden, Part 3 of his Genghis Khan series, very enjoyable and a vast improvement on book 2.

I've also published my dental practice's website and this can be found at www.spicerroaddentalpractice.com .

So after a bit of a break, I am going to start blogging again.

So what have I been doing recently.

Well this week I have been off ill from work and today is the first day I have really surfaced and sought company again. I think a severe head cold totally wiped me out.

So I've been busy, I've started this blog and I've finally published our dental practice website onto the world wide web. The website address for the dental practice is www.spicerroaddentalpractice.com take a look, you never know when you may need a dentist.

Anyway, being poorly has meant I have probably watched a bit more TV than usual. Last night I watched the Restaurant. Interesting programme last night because it showed the importance of brand standards to a business. I was amazed by the degree of control the "high street" chain restaurants impose on their staff. Mind you this will mean the customer will have the same experience if they walk into a Pizza Express in Exeter or any where else in the country. I guess this means that the customers expectations will be met where ever they go to eat within the particular chain. What was amazing was how badly some of the contestants stuffed things up when all they had to do was follow the manual, one was so bad even the customers noticed the food was wrong!

Its interesting how close the big business used the E myth concept, it proves it is not just for small businesses.

Just a final thing, thought I would post a picture, this is a view of the beach at Bigbury on Sea in Devon.