Yesterday we went to see Ian Hall's new warehouse after a stroll through the Botanic Gardens and their birds in cages.This heron was a wild one and a bit odd to be standing on a pole out of the pond.
Ian runs the Spar warehouse which supplies all the small Spar grocery stores from the middle of England to the Scottish border plus some army stores in Germany. As you can imagine it is an enormous task. Everything is done by wireless messages to units on the belts of forklift drivers who then deliver the goods to the trucks that set off every morning full and come back empty in the afternoon.
Ian is rightly chuffed about the new facility and how well the changeover went from the old site. (His son was in charge of the IT part of it.) In celebration we went out to Pizza Express, the poshest restaurant in Southport while John was off at his Rotary meeting.
This morning he took off very early for his three day bike ride over the Pennines in the cold, windy rain. It will be pretty miserable out there but they are staying at pubs overnight so they will have an opportunity to warm up. Because it is for charity they won't give up after the first day.
We met the grandkids, Eve and Sam before catching the bus to Coventry at 10am. The countryside is green, hedgy and fairly flat. Not very interesting as we moved from one motorway to the next. But we got here on time and the hotel is a block from the bus which is a block from the cathedral. Jo just managed to stagger around the cathedral before falling into bed to nurse his cold.
Ian is rightly chuffed about the new facility and how well the changeover went from the old site. (His son was in charge of the IT part of it.) In celebration we went out to Pizza Express, the poshest restaurant in Southport while John was off at his Rotary meeting.
This morning he took off very early for his three day bike ride over the Pennines in the cold, windy rain. It will be pretty miserable out there but they are staying at pubs overnight so they will have an opportunity to warm up. Because it is for charity they won't give up after the first day.
We met the grandkids, Eve and Sam before catching the bus to Coventry at 10am. The countryside is green, hedgy and fairly flat. Not very interesting as we moved from one motorway to the next. But we got here on time and the hotel is a block from the bus which is a block from the cathedral. Jo just managed to stagger around the cathedral before falling into bed to nurse his cold.
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