My week was originally supposed to begin with a couple of overnight stays in the Capital, but due to a change in our schedule, my sightseeing plans have been delayed until next week. On the bright side it left me with the opportunity to once again spend some much needed time in the office and catch up with happenings that had occurred whilst I had been out on the road.

With my colleague once again on annual leave for a fortnight, (this time Los Angeles being the unlucky place!) I thought I would defer my September planning meetings and help run operations from the office. So, along with writing up notes from meetings over the past few weeks I have been arranging visits to as many sites as possible for when my colleague returns and preparing for summer.

As a business ask4 are continuing to expand, with a number of new sites being taken on for September it is part of my role to make contact with the hall managers of these new sites. The primary reason of this objective was to introduce myself as I will be the first point of contact, but also to gather information about the site and ensure they have all the necessary marketing and advertising material they require.

With our new sites spanning from Edinburgh to London and various other places in between, I attempted to create a gimmick by placing dots on each new site on a map, and connecting the dots like a child’s puzzle, or like the FBI do in movies when they’re tracking an elusive fugitive. The end result however was disappointing, with the connected dots creating the shape of a throwing dart, not just a normal dart either, a Phil Taylor dart that had ricocheted off the wire, crashed landed on the floor, then had the flight clumsily trampled on and squashed as the athlete went to retrieve it. (I’m unsure of the correct word to describe a person playing darts, darter, dartist, or dartee maybe; anyway, athlete was a safe bet!)

The next few months promise to be exciting with the introduction of so many new sites and I will persist in clocking up the road miles by getting out and meeting current and new clients. Let’s just hope that the warm weather continues to surprise us and contribute to a great summer.