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Hi All

I have looked at a few recent posts and worry that at times I may seem like Victor Meldrew.

It’s just when one becomes sensitised to the gap between brilliant and crappy service, examples of both seems to be all around you (is this a Wet Wet Wet song?).

Anyway, today I am celebrating the eternal beauty of a moment when someone “comes alive” to you. Interviewing a somewhat dour woman in her mid 20’s carrying a bundle of post, we asked het to describe a business  that had done a great job for her. Immediately she beamed a smile that transformed her  with animated beauty, as she described a local company who was planning her wedding and doing so down to the last possible detail.  The post was of course the invitations.

I am minded at such times of the moment in the novel “The Great Gatsby” when Nick Carraway realises that Gatsby’s seemingly meaningless existence in throwing lavish parties was all in the hope that his lost love Daisy would turn up one day. As Fitzgerald puts it “He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor”.

There is a potential for anyone to find fulfillment if they care to look or have friends to help them  or dare I say it, can find the  best businesses to tip them into action when it matters. 

Nothing grumpy about that.

Until tomorrow.

Nick