COLOUR AND COUNTING

The new Cambridge Editions is out (April) in which we had a small part in an article on colour. I actually wrote quite a lot more in response to questions for this feature but, as expected, they weren’t reproduced. Instead we got the usual stuff about colour which was a pity, and even the dreaded ‘colour wheel’ got carted out...which I think is even more responsible for rubbish colour schemes than the 1970s were.

If you want to read the alternative article on colour I think we posted that particular blog on 22/2/12. We have since sold the pink dresser – see, not everyone needs a colour wheel!

Anyway, our stock take is over and actually wasn’t as bad as previous years. Only one person managed to get past us at the door (despite being shut). They had a desperate and urgent need to purchase two gnomes so...err...go on then! You can’t block a gnome buyer on a mission. Now the counting is over the information is processed via our database at which point the computer will get cross and start asking some difficult questions.

Like...

Why are you missing two tables?
Why do you only have 2,462 print blocks and not 2,473? Can someone not count properly?
You do know you’ve sold 33 items at less than they cost – well, don’t you?

I hate that computer. In my head, the stock take is finished and all is well and dandy.