Business is booming
Things are moving fast in software development land. From being an idea we now have 7 staff plus myself and Jason!! Not bad since we only started properly in February.

The development team are going to have to move into another office, 5 mins up the road, as we can't fit everyone in. I was considering introducing shift work and desk share policies but as it happens another office has unexpectedly become available.

Must post some pics.
Flippin eck

Jason is off to a posh business do tonight. Black tie, looked very smart.

Amazing how things just start to develop their own momentum.

It was hairdresser day again today. Every time a new surprise colourwise. It turns out that they don't write down the colour they put on your hair as they can 'usually' remember. Possibly not that accurately judging by some of my recent colour adventures. I'm currently getting used to a new shade from today's experiment in hair pigments.

This time I did work up the nerve to object to the initial colour so thankfully I don't look too flame haired. The amended version is a bit more subtle and the kids have given it a nod of approval. Two hair cuts ago they agreed unanimously that I looked a bit like a Bratz doll, something to do with the purple highlights I think.

Anyway I was explaining that maybe it would be an idea to write something down in the book for next time. They've had a go...and it could be one of two or three colours, so they'll try the first of the other options in June.

Don't get me wrong I don't dislike the hair cut or the hair colour but it is sometimes hard to cope with the surprise! I think I need to avoid bright lights for a few days until the colour fades a bit. Do I sound stressed!!!!

I'm considering taking in a picture of Chorlton (of the Wheelies) and seeing if they can make me look like my profile photo. Now that would be worth a picture.

Things are moving along, the business is partnering with another open source company. We now have 3 staff! So our nice new office now has no space for me:-(
Still it is an ideal excuse to work from home.

The dog has gone all adolescent on us. So he is being walked on his lead as public displays of inappropriate behaviour can be rather embarrassing. Not that the lead stops him. He is not being snappy just rather overfriendly.

I've just bought the new First News paper for kids. The checkout assistant in Tesco's seemed bemused that I was paying £1 for a newspaper with only 24 pages. But as Jason has pointed out it doesn't contain any adverts. I think the writing is of a very high standard, I kind of wish the rest of the papers were as clear on the issues.

I feel like the Easter holidays have finally finished. Somehow I'm not so sure that it makes sense to have all the Bank Holidays bunched together up so much.

What with being in Scotland and then an extra day's school holiday + last weekends rush of parties and visits and another Bank Holiday + family visits it seems like today is the first day I have had without huge commitments to be somewhere.

I've decided to scale down the kids activities. Which means not going to quite so many swimming lessons but spending the time going swimming as a family, walking the dog or going out on the bikes. That way I might not find myself getting quite so resentful about being the child chauffer.

I've added a few business related links to the blog. This is mainly so I can keep an eye on them, and with any luck glean some information on what everyone else is doing in the service oriented open source market. It does look like the world of IT development is about to head into a step change. We're kind of riding on the coat-tails trying to keep up.