Day 18 - Friday evening
I’m having a bit of trouble with the phone, I can’t get through on the special number. To do with 3G coverage, working on a fix—Dug
I hope the photos have come through, there should a photograph of a bottle of Becks waiting for me, which indicates my intent;-)
Friday’s been a particularly hard day for various reasons… haven’t really had a chance to update you. We got through the routine stuff we do on a Friday starting with what we call the Harvest Review group where we update the business on how the harvest is doing and followed by the taste panels. We’re now about 30% of the way through the harvest both at Hull and Lowestoft…
That was followed a meeting with Colemans, because in addition to peas and all the Birdseye vegetables we also look after all the mustard for colemans. Now, we only get involved with premium and interesting supply chains, and that’s quite good as we had to give our annual report to the crop strategy group and that went well—it went very well, actually…
And after that we continued the work we’re doing with Cardiff business school, the value chain analysis of pea production this year to see where we can introduce some improvements. It’s been a little stressful, but very interesting in terms of the way we look at things and approach things and hopefully we’ll get something out of that.
We have a couple more days later in july where we’ll be looking at process flows, and information flows. It’s proving very interesting getting an outsider’s view of the operation. Hopefully something will come of that.
As far as this weekend goes, we’re going to be fairly busy—no respite really, going to be working 24 hours as we’ve got a lot of peas to get through, weather looking better, sightly cooler… We’re right on top of the quality right now so it’s a pleasure having taste panels:-)
On a personal level, I’m on me own this weekend now my wife she’s gone away for the week-end with her cousin. she’s off to Edinburgh…
Going to be interesting, I have to choose my own tea this evening—could be Simply Fish, with peas and new potatoes I guess, you can’t beat it really:-)
We’ll talk to you tomorrow, cherio
