On Saturday I started calling around different Lawn Mower repair places in Glasgow see who could fix my Honda Izy Lawnmower. I call the first one they have 3 week waiting period, calls next one they have 2 weeks waiting period, calls the next one 3 weeks also, thinking this is no good, finally get to the last one and they tell me it’s a 1 week waiting period. I am like ok, how much will it cost to repair, “oh it will be £70 whatever is wrong with it unless we can’t repair it inside the costs or parts and labour up to £70, then we will tell you but that be £20 for checking it”.. ah ok, so flat rate fee regardless if it just needs the oil changed.

So thought feck this, I am going to look up Google with the problems my Lawnmower that costs over £300 could have wrong with it, I find this simple page where guys says.

1. Check you have fuel (check, I bought new fuel and added it)
2. Check your oil level (check, I pulled out the dip stick thing and it was at correct level)
3. Check your spark plug (ah, didn’t even know lawn mowers had them LOL)

So I check where the spark plug is, I looked for manual on where it is and how to remove it, I find a video on Youtube about spark plug removal, turns out I have a spark plug ratchet, I have know idea why I bough one of them. So I remove it and it looks a bit black but to be honest I have no idea what they should look like so I head off to a car parts place and buy a new one, cost me £2.35 I install it and what do you know the lawn mower starts working, I repaired it myself with use of Google, and £2.35 go me LOL … to think I was going to just go to Costco and buy a new one cause I couldn’t be bothered with the hassle, glad I didn’t now and can finally say I am handy around the home/garden

At the start of the year our landlords served notice on our city centre offices giving us 6 months to find a new place, as we already knew in advance that our office block was to be made in to flats we had started searching before, however it took until April before we found a half decent place. We acted quickly to make sure they had the information they needed and everything was going fine until this week, when all of a sudden the landlords of the new place stopped replying to our emails, and phone calls, we found out from another source also looking at the same office they where told end of last week that the office was no longer on the market as they where in final legal stages with new occupants, sadly not us, basically looks like either someone has come in after us with a better offer or we where getting strung along in case the other people pulled out. So that leaves us looking for a new office again (and legal costs from the other, gits), and we have until middle of August to find, and move in to a new place. Thankfully we have a few back up plans none of them ideal but then if you could see the state of what is on offer in Glasgow for a business of our size you would actually think the back up plans where very, very nice indeed.

Ah the trails of running a business, thankfully got few people around me who can deal with checking out offices to save me seeing the crap ones (however I have seen a few so maybe they need to vet them better LOL) but all in all moving offices is not top of my “want to do list” but certainly creates a challenge for a business that has expanded every year since we started, especially when we had pretty good, well priced and very centrally located office right on George Square. I guess it doesn’t help with everyone else in the building all looking for offices of similar size at the same time, so I won’t be letting on where we are thinking of moving to at this stage, just in case they stumble on this page LOL