No I’m not going to talk about the Spice Girl’s reunion and their new record or indeed Britney Spears new album, I mean that it is a new record amount of time that has elapsed since we updated this.
The good news is that although we haven’t posted here, Sarah has still been taking plenty of photos and will put them here soon!
Our reason/ excuse for being so slack is that we have been so busy setting up our company. An opportunity arose, the timing was right so we went for it. I finished and qualified my PC engineering course, the big kids are happily back at school, Edward is settling in to a nice routine, Sarah and I wanted to move on and build something together that will provide financial security for the family and Kirsty started her new business was kind enough to put her faith in us that we could deliver her business needs.
So here we are and Sirah Digital Ltd was born. I am typing this entry from within my shiny new office, affectionately known as the Shoffice as it is indeed a shed and a office! Albeit a brick built construction with a tiled pitched roof! Sarah lovingly painted it a nice shade of white last weekend and put together my desks (two at the bargain price of £49 for both! Ikea’s finest and not a hint of John Lewis here!) We need to sort out a few more plug sockets (just need to learn how to do that!) run a phone line and another network cable and we are all sorted! Anyone got a fax machine going begging! We got rid of our last one as the cost of new ink cartridge was more than the cost of replacing it!
Sarah has her office inside, I call it the ‘hoffice’ – home office! The whole set up seems to be working well. I have put in an order for some pictures for my office walls – Sarah is of course commissioned to shoot the images!
Both of us have been working late often not going to bed much before one in the morning and with Edward waking us up nice an early we could do with a restful holiday already! I can’t believe where the days go, it seems to race along much quicker than I was working for someone else! One of the frustrating things we have learnt over the last couple of weeks is how other business are so bad at doing what they say they’re going to do. I want to know why it is so hard to get someone to call you back when they say they will!
We are finding that the two ‘sides’ of the business are working well, Sarah is responsible for the design side of things and this very weekend is teaching herself web design! I am responsible for computer side of things but we are finding, as we expected that there is a cross over from a client point of view.
We placed our first order with a supplier yesterday and so far they seem to be really helpful so we can’t wait for a lorry load of bits to turn up on Tuesday. Then we can build the pcs and set up the other bits and get them ready for our first client!
We have few contacts lined up for new business and Sarah’s mum is turning out be a one-woman walking, talking advert! “So who looks after your computers then?” if one of her new phrases! Followed by “why don’t you have a look at this web site – www.sirahdigital.com” It is a temp site for the moment but Sarah is on the case!
I’ll leave the business things there for now…
Edward is walking everywhere at the moment! He even walked around Waitrose the other day! Slowly! We had to let a decrepit old couple past as they were going that little bit faster than us – I think it made their day!
Jack & Ellie are doing well, both stacking up the merits at school and doing really well. It is their birthday next weekend so they are excited about that. Jack went to a classmates birthday party last week, a disco in a nearby village hall – it didn’t finish until 10.30 so he felt very grown up. The only let down was that his girlfriend wasn’t able to come at the last minute.
We went to two firework displays last week. One in Sarah’s mum’s village of Old which was great, Sarah took some photos so I’m sure a couple will appear here later and then on Monday 5th our village had a display in the park down the road. Which although smaller was just as good! The kids watched the display and ‘hung out’ with their mates while the grown ups huddled around the fire and gossiped! (Not that there is much gossip in our little village!) Although it was very cold it was dry and the bonfires kept us warm! Edward loved the ‘crash bang boom’ of the fireworks and giggled all the way through!