Charlie’s thoughts on April

Another month down and what do we at Robinson Howell Partnership have to show for it?

Well, we had a bit of a chat this afternoon in the office and we realised that we haven’t been out much this month and Rob says it’s because of the ‘newt axe year’. I think that’s what he said, I’m not sure what he means though, I mean, do the newts have axes or are we hitting them with axes? I don’t think I like the sound of it either way!

Sue says the word of the month is ‘reporting’. It is apparently year end (I think she has confused December and April again) and that means she has to make up ... I mean ... calculate lots of facts and figures and put them into pretty spreadsheets with coloured headers and complicated maths that Rob has to help with.

So it has been a staying inside kind of a month, which has not been fun for me.

Lyndsey and Sue are planning the Spot On Autumn season, Sue is keeping lots of information inside her head and then in a few weeks it will all spill out into a Word document and become the Spot On menu. Lyndsey has finally finished all the Spot On parcels – she did a little dance for joy in the office and then celebrated by tidying out the stationery cupboard (it never moves... get it! Sorry, bad joke). So now we have lots more room for all the new boxes and bags and sticky tape for next season!

There has been the occasional outing to see a Spot On show. Sue, Lyndsey and Rob have all been out to see things, and Lyndsey is still writing up all of her adventures in her blog. She has even roped in a friend now and he has been taking some really great pictures for the Spot On gallery. If you haven’t seen a show yet you better hurry, our last show is in early July and then there’s a little break before the autumn season starts, and those parcels start all over again!

It feels like April has been a month of getting ready for things, while the Spot On Team have been getting ready for the next season, mailout has been getting ready for another issue. Rob has been asking lots of people in arts organisations to write about all the amazing things they have achieved, so we’re getting lots of letters to put in the magazine. Speaking of post... is anyone else sick of the election? All we seem to get now is leaflets about voting for people... what about dogs, I say. Where is the Chocolate Labrador Party? I’d vote for them every time. They could use my manifesto about more bones for working dogs, equal rights for canine employees, implementation of wee-mail as a valid message service and of course regular walking for all staff members (preferably with me as supervisor).

I’m on a roll with an election campaign all of my own. I think I might go type up my manifesto right now.