Faaaaarrrrkkkkkkk!!!!

I have very nearly come up with one of the most original ways to torpedo a fairly major deal!

We have sold off a significant chunk of one of our trad recruitment businesses, lock-stock-the lot. The last part of the deal has been the extraction of all current non financial data and all of the relevant consultants correspondence over the last set period. Sounds simple and it should be. It never is.

So I have been sat here all day taking these guys through the various data that will be burnt to disc before the deal is signed and a boot is planted firmly up the backsides as they leave the building. 4 hours of going backwards and forwards - frustrating as all hell. Last query written and dragging the info down now. All ready to rip the agreed data to disc and tell these suckers to decamp (post emptying their pockets on the desk - good natured deal this one).

i have just spilled water over the side of my laptop. The side with the only DVD burner in the place in it.

Faaarrrrkkkk!

[It's the first time I have seen you with a hair dryer in years! - Ed]