We go to Harrogate quite regularly and today we found a new shop that is really cool. It’s been around since 2004 but is on a road that we would tend to drive down rather than walk down, but today while Ethan was at a birthday party we had a wander around. Exit Interiors is on Parliament Street in Harrogate and the small shop is a haven if you love contemporary things for your home to brighten up everyday living.
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Tonight Dave appeared on Sky News on Martin Stanford’s program SkyNews.com.

Well it’s pretty impossible these days with the majority of us having online accounts with social networking sites, and feeling the need to share lots of personal information online with strangers. We can of course limit the information we share online, such as was highlighted last week with the pitfall of FourSquare which encourages you to share where you are, hence not being at home giving burglars the perfect opportunity.

Offline it is slightly different and we are all meant to be careful with paperwork that could be used to steal our identity. Unfortunately I am a bit lazy and stupid and still put things in the bin that really should be shredded. I must try harder! One big bug bear though that I have is phone calls out of the blue from banks, insurance companies, credit card companies and the like.

Tonight was a perfect example .. the phone goes around 7pm. It’s for me.
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As Bronco continues to grow and we take on more staff to cope with the workload, it also puts a strain on the capacity of the building that we currently operate from. When we moved to our existing building nearly three years ago there were 8 of us and now we have doubled our Ripon office based staff. We have over the years streamlined the business, such as closing down the Hardware department to make more space, and we are now working on a strategy to co-locate our server farm to free up even more space which will also give us the flexibility to relocate. When we last moved it cost us around £60,000 just to move the pipe and servers and a lot of headaches.

Dave and I have been looking half heartedly for around six months or so for a new building, but haven’t really managed to find anywhere suitable. Today we went to look at 2 office buildings in Ripon but neither were really big enough to allow us to grow in the future. We were shown the premises by a lovely girl called Victoria from Strutt & Parker who was really helpful and really understood what we were looking for. It reiterates the fact that you deal with people rather than companies and she really got what we were looking for and is now bombarding me with available premises.
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