Its still all about Whtehaven

Even in my silly world of chaos and stress, the last few days have been strange indeed. When you identify yourself as the CEO people have this view that life must be rosy and staff do everything for you but one can only dream. Im more of your Lidl type of CEO in that I manage myself while reporting to everyone else. I was watching Dancing on Ice live at Newcastle when the horrible thought occurred that our exhibition on WW1 opens next week and I realised that writing the exhibition up would be down to moi.

40 storyboards and lots of image research later and I know so much about the war I could do a speaking tour. On a serious note though, how many people knew that the loss of men on day one of the Somme alone is still a record in the military world. Lets hope its never repeated. That said, if you get a chance to visit the exhibition please do. Not only is it full of interesting facts and has a few models on display its free as well, yes that magic word guaranteed to get ever ones attention.

If anyone saw me doing a slow version of John Cleese's funny walk around town I wasnt in the throws of a breakdown by the way, I was doing my best pacing stick walk to try to gauge the parade time around town for the 6th May. One lovely person pulled up and offered me a lift as they thought my back had gone! That same day I had to juggle meetings with the Police, CFM, The Royal Navy and the Council while finishing off storyboards about the battle of Passchendaele and tank warfare in WW1. Thank god for technology or Id be screwed.

Ive placed four orders this week. One wine order for the shop, one Vickers Machine Gun, two spiked German Helmets and 40m of fencing for the parade and the daftest suggestion of the week was one about the parade, beat that if you can!  I was asked if there was going to be a gun salute (which there isnt by the way) and if yes could  I ask the soldiers to release doves or lanterns instead so we dont upset victims of Derek Bird! It reminds me of the chap who was really concerned that I was going to rely on the Whitehaven Rugby Clubs tinny pa System when I put Status Quo on in 2008. He was also concerned that if I put them in the centre circle like they do with matchday entertainment not everyone would see them. I often wonder what he thought a few weeks later when a giant dome stage and a million quid of sound system turned up?

For this weeks Whitehaven News Wine Column I chose the complex subject of Red Burgundy but I promise to be a little lighter on your pockets for next week, honest.

Anyway, I do believe that blogs like jokes are best kept short so its time I got a mug of tea and got back to my confusing day, so who should I call first among those waiting, the music agent, the celebrity Gardner, the celebrity chef, the ships captain or my wife???