given so much to the area and of course they and their businesses have given endlessly to charity as well. Their era is coming to an end as they retire but I hope it is not forgotten. Is it a bad world now? I don’t know? I hope not. Is the constant stream of attempted scams arriving at my computer daily indicative of a decaying morality in the world or is it just that the world wide web has made it easier for all the baddies in the world to get to everyone at the press of a button. Their target market is, after all, the whole world so maybe we get the feeling that everyone is after us as a result. Maybe the world is just smaller. The boys in this book did it right. They were honest with people and they generated a family feel in their business life. I wish them many happy years retired as a reward! While I am on the subjects of the book there are quite a few people who might not have made it into it but feel they maybe should and for that I genuinely apologise. In fact, one, my old mucker Vin Staniforth from my Ernst Young days, did finally become the very kind, and much put-upon illustrator and dotted throughout the book you will see amusing examples of his fine work. But really, I must stop soon. It was so hard to find the cut-off point, and I was in a rush at the end to get it out there and published so it could hopefully provide some funds for the charity and I could write my second and third books, which are busy fermenting in my head as I write. So yes, there will be another. And by the way I know I spelt grammar wrong somewhere - did you spot that? ‘This wallpaper is terrible - one of us will have to go’. Oscar Wilde’s alleged last words. And now mine. THE END
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