Happy Easter

Here we are again, another busy week at TTPL…loads happening as usual and plenty of good news.

The begining of the week saw the publication of This Is Business, a new free Business to Business magazine from Business Hub in Paignton, it is available all over the bay and is a good read (especially the centre pages). Tuesday morning saw another Breakfast Networking Club meeting at The Parkers Arms, great people, great breakfast and a really useful networking event.

Easter is on its way and we are all looking forward to a nice long weekend…we decided to have a ‘bright’ day in the office and Wendy excelled with a bright fluorescent pink top and I just had to dust off my ‘Sh1te Shirt’ … sunglasses required even on such a dull day :0) It isn nice be able to brighten up the world and would reccomend a loud shirt to make you feel good all day!

Jayne and Wendy, our Directors, came into the office this morning and presented us all with an Easter Egg and a bottle of Fizz…fantastic. This was in celebration and thanks, for  a record breaking first quarter! Great news.  We could not achieve this without our excellent Work Placements and Host Families. So a huge ‘Thank You’ to all our placements, hosts and of course Jayne and Wendy. While we are talking about Host Families, we are still looking for host families in Exeter who are able to accommodate ‘self catering’ students… contact Sue on 01803 321214 for more details or go to the Host Family tab at the top of this blog.

 I had a great meeting with Clr Dave Thomas regarding EU funding and ways in which we can work together… some really great opportunities there I think so will have to stay in touch - another Thank You to Dots Pantry for the coffee during our meeting:0) We have also re-established our connections with both The Grand and The Imperial hotels in Torquay, both of which have new contacts. Chris, the new GM at the Grand and Jenny the new HR Manager at The Imperial; belated congratulations to both of them on their appointments. Wendy and I also had a great meeting with Julian Reiman from World Host, we have been looking at Customer Service training for our students and are looking to set something up in conjunction with our Work Placements to benefit their employees too…it is a great opportunity for the whole bay, especially during 2012 with the Olympics and hopefully extra visitor numbers.

On the ‘Quit Smoking’ front … Sue has now gone a whole week without a ciggy and Mia is 4 days in… stick with it Ladies! Mia also has next week off, hmmm, not sure who authorised that... but I hope she has nice relaxing week.

Sue and Gemma are just about to go and meet our students for their ‘Thursday Meeting’… a walk through Cockington was planned but because it is soooo cold there may well be a hot coffee in The Grand instead. Much more civilised!

A little Easter Funny for you...

That’s it from TTPL for this week… don’t eat too much chocolate and enjoy the long weekend.