Sometimes of course that slogan can come back to haunt you and hit you in places you don't want to be hit . Actually quite a lot of the time this can happen.
I have mentioned Anglian Water before. It's in the news this week for being very badly run, for losing more water than ever through faults in pipes, for running up huge debts and for being one of, if not the worst water companies.
And it's slogan: "Love every drop."
Moral of this piece. Make sure before you pick some buzz words that your slogan is watertight (pun intended).
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My friend and district/county councillor David Bills regularly pokes fun at me and I regularly poke fun at him in return. Underneath the joshing we have a great respect for each other. Well I do but I can't speak for him. Perhaps he thinks I'm a tosser.
David and I have a phrase we trot out occasionally when we have a bit of fun. "Don't you know who I am."
That's a phrase I would never use outside of our banter. I have to admit I did use it once but that's another story for another day.
Before our recent Friends of Hethersett Library meeting David told an amusing story. I'm not sure whether it's true or not but here it is.
At an airport people are queuing to get onto their aircraft. A smartly dressed man walks to the front of the queue and stands there.
One of the airline staff asks him politely to join the back of the queue. The man refuses and says very loudly.
"Don't you know who I am?"
The member of staff picks up the microphone.
"Ladies and gentleman, we have a passenger at the front of the queue. For those who cannot see him, he's dressed in a dark suit, has wavy hair and looks about 40. He seems to have lost his memory. Does anyone know who he is."
The only time I used that arrogant phrase was in Hethersett King's Head. It's a long story and I will recount it sometime. The King's has been shut since the end of February. I'm looking forward to it's re-opening next Tuesday which is going to be another busy day at Chez Stewards as we also have our morning Forget me Not cafe with a speaker from the Alzheimer's Society. I also have a dental appointment.
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Yesterday we popped into Wymondham just ahead of expected rain. We had lunch at The Mad Hatter's Tea Rooms and I had a thoroughly enjoyable ploughman's.
Got talking to an elderly lady who is confused by all the modern technology. She doesn't have a computer and still tries to pay for everything with cash which is certainly not easy anymore.
On television recently, people were bemoaning the fact that there is less and less service at rail stations with passengers expected to buy tickets either through machines or via the internet at home.
Some people have even gone as far as to say they have decided not to travel by train. I'm usually ok with technology but I still prefer to have tickets printed out rather than rely on mobile phones and technology and not everyone is ready for the total technological revolution. Have we gone too far, too quickly? Or is this similar to decimalisation where we just had to learn new ways?
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Big question of the day I need an answer to.
Why do tennis players playing doubles have to touch hands at the end of every point, even if they have lost the previous one?
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Our horse ran yesterday. Well when I say our horse it would be more correct to say the horse in which we have one share in about 2000. Star Player could only make seventh despite being favourite to win.
Our other horse Miranda is busy making a foal of herself, In other words giving birth. I believe we receive prize money if any of its offspring wins races.
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The next presentation organised by the Friends of Hethersett Library will be on September 21st when Paddy Anstey will give an illustrated talk about the Mid Norfolk Railway. I will have more details nearer the time.