WELCOME Page Even after retirement,
work never stops
I’ve just come back from five days in Liverpool. Two of those days included the weekend because I was told that I must visit Liverpool on a Friday and Saturday. All I’ll say is; it was certainly an experience. At my age making my cocoa is exciting enough for me; sometimes the milk boils over and I’ve been known to drop the saucepan because the handle’s too hot. Excitement, I’m never short of it. The reason for the visit to Liverpool was because in the January issue we are running Liverpool sign makers. This issue we have Leeds Sign makers (pages 76 to 82). The heart of Liverpool has changed a lot since my last visit in 1970. Then, you kept
your head down and didn’t make eye contact with anyone, and that included the women. Back in those days it was hard to tell the men from the women. They all had broken noses along with numerous scars over their bodies and faces. But that’s all changed with Liverpool women now dressing to look like wags. With all the money they spend on clothes they can’t afford to get into any fights. If there were any fights I didn’t see them. I'm not saying Liverpool’s the safest place on earth, because it’s not. It still has bad areas (like all cities), and you should pay close attention where you park your car. Like always there is only so much time that can be spent visiting people; if your sign
business is in Liverpool or the surrounding area and you’d like to be included in our next issue, then get in touch with me sooner rather than later. And don’t let being a one man business stop you as it’s you we like to feature. This story I’m about to tell I got from a one man sign business. I have to leave out his
name to save embarrassment. This man’s client wanted his white transit van sign written and both being one man businesses neither had premises where the work could be done. So it was arranged to leave the van at a certain car park in Bootle. “It will be the first white transit van you see as you enter the car park,” the sign maker
was told, and was given the registration number of the van as confirmation. Our drawing tells the outcome. When you work on your own, it’s always a rush and the sign maker forgot to bring the registration number with him. He got to the car park and there as he had been told, was a white transit van facing him, as promised, so he started work. The only problem was that the car park has two entrances. Thank god I’ve retired, that’s just the sort of thing that happens to me. All in all I had a great time in Liverpool. Now my next big job is trying to put it against my tax as expenses.
"Well, yes, it's a nice job, but that's not my van, my van's over there". ISSUE 125 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2010 Sign Update 5
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