Archive for: April, 2012

The Big Bang Theory

Apr 13 2012 Published by under Swindon

No, not my favourite TV programme but funny goings on down in sunny Swindon……….

At around 1820 on Thursday evening most of the population of Swindon heard an enormous bang aligned with buildings/windows shaking. I was indoors merrily working away at my PC when I heard the noise and subsequently felt the building shake – I was certain that a car had collided with the building but a quick inspection showed that all was OK .

A quick look at a few Forums and Social Media sites showed that this was widespread , not just in Swindon but in Wiltshire , Oxfordshire and even Warwickshire - most people were perplexed wondering what on earth had caused the noise.

Speculation was rife about the cause of the noise , was it :

An Earthquake ?

An Explosion ?

A Sonic Boom ?

Aliens Landing ?

Town Fans celebrating promotion to League One  early ?

OK I made the last two up – Aliens would never negotiate the Magic Roundabout in Swindon and hopefully promotion to League One will be sorted in the next game or two !

Eventually the MOD “fessed up” that it was them causing the problem and that the noise was , in fact a sonic boom caused by a Typhoon fighter going supersonic to aid a helicopter in distress – subsequently shown to be a false alarm . The noise made the local and national news and even features on the front page of the BBC News site here .

But conspiracy theories still abound , why were two Typhoon jets scrambled to aid one single civilian helicopter  ? , who was the pilot of the helicopter ? where were they heading ? and who else was travelling in the helicopter ?

I think we should be told…… but you can bet the two pilots were sat in an Officer’s Mess last night having a drink and a great laugh about alarming half of Wiltshire , Oxfordshire and Warwickshire !!

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The COP Confutation

Apr 05 2012 Published by under Utility Warehouse

In a week full of gloom on the financial markets -  Ben Bernanke stating that he thought there would be no need for QE3 and sending the markets immediately lower , the Bundesbank stating that they thought the LTRO in February had not worked , Draghi from the ECB saying that there was “downside risk” still , Spanish 10 year paper going back up to January levels at 5.69% and the UK retail industry still struggling ( as a Game Shareholder , don’t get me started on that one !) I wondered how this news would affect the normal ” man/woman in the street” .

So on Tuesday night I rock up to the Utility Warehouse COP ( Career Opportunity Presentation ) meeting at Marsh Farm Hotel in  Royal Wootton Bassett and find that instead of the normal 30-40 people in attendance the place is jam packed with nearly 70 people in attendance.

The attendees are a mixture of existing Utility Warehouse Distributors like myself and people who have come along to listen to the presentation and find out more about the Utility Warehouse Business Opportunity . There was a common theme of general disquiet with the current economic situation with both existing and prospective Distributors realising that hope is not a strategy and in order to maintain a reasonable lifestyle in retirement then a business opportunity paying a residual income is well worth pursuing .

So the Utility Warehouse Business Opportunity used to be called ” The UK’s Best Kept Secret ” – clearly by the crowd on Tuesday night that is no longer the case !!

 

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