If you turn the 'b' round, then blog is an anagram of gold. Similarly glob is an anagram of blog. Glob is less valuable than gold but in my present pronouncements you will get a rich harvest of glob. Gentle reader, wondering why the hell you are reading this, I can only say I was assured by my junior staff members that blogging is an essential way of making a web site cosy and cuddly. This gives rise to the question 'why does it have to be?' Not to fall into the Rattner Trap, I think our web site stands up for itself with or without said blogarooney. Is it essential to read the rantings of some crazed and aged director to fall in love with a beautiful chair? Does the design, the fabric, the colour and the aura it exudes alter because you know the intimate details of my musings or how we got to this state of being?

I suppose they are right anyway, as usual, because sales are certainly going up, not meteorically so to speak, but steadily and on-line sales are definitely playing a bigger part in the overall spectrum of our sales campaign. Going against the grain, swimming against the tide, bucking the trend are phrases which spring to mind but you cannot ignore the power of the little communicating device we all seem to schlep around with us and I am now afraid to stop bogging in case it turns off a magic tap that brings a flow of orders every day, correction, Tuesday is usually awful for some reason. Maybe I should write my autobiography and serialise it right here. Say every Tuesday?

That said, it's a damn sight better than the old days when you went round from shop to shop in a van with samples, mainly in the drizzle and fog and waited in line to be seen by crusty old store buyers who permanently told you how tough business was. Those were the golden days? Had we known what was ahead we would have bought those booming properties, or that E-type jag, or that early Hockney painting. It's easy to be wise after the event but events happen all the time so buy my lovely furniture and lighting, and let all masochists have a fair crack of the whip.