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The Large Hadron Collider threatens to reveal the secrets of the origin of the universe. Two banks in America bite the dust; one out of bankruptcy and the other from being taken over (that’s Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch in case you’ve been in bed with the flu and a blanket over your head for the last three days) and rather uniquely, the last night of the proms seemed to be the first day of the English summer, that phrase credited to Sir Roger Norrington, the conductor of the orchestra on the evening in question. 

As far as the Large Hadron Collider is concerned I, like others, waited with baited breath to see if we all disappeared down a black hole into Switzerland on the day it was turned on and only found out latterly that it will actually take the protons belting round the system four weeks until they reach the speed at which they can be collided with each other, striking similarities there with the M25 on a Monday morning. I for one have to say that I’m less concerned with knowing the origins of the universe as I am as to what particular goodies we’ll get off of this range of experiments. It was, after all, the NASA space programme that gave us non stick frying pans and the forerunner of the LHC that gave us the world wide web so if the LHC gives us the Grid today’s youth will be able to look back in years to come and say ‘yeah, the LHC might have told us the origin of the universe but it also gave us video download on demand’. 

Onto slightly more serious matters, there is much doom and gloom abroad at present and yet the underlying economics of the developed world are still fairly robust. Consumer indebtedness needed to reduce somewhat and the credit crunch, by design or default, is having that effect. Property prices that were last year being described as ‘frothy’ by commentators are becoming defrothed and that’s good and markets, it is worth remembering, always turn at their lowest point. So, have we seen the bottom of this particular economic cycle? Perhaps not quite but my guess is that we’re fairly close to it. So whilst it’s denial to talk up a bad market it’s equally self destructive to talk down a fully functioning market and it is in all of our interests to act confidently and nudge our respective parts of the economy back into growth and with that, here are some nudges from those wunnerful, wunnerful people at purplehotels. 

It’s September so the first Christmas puddings are out in the supermarkets and our spiffing wheeze of the season is to combine our stated policy of being an active contributor to the local community as well as a national brand. So, if you live within a five miles radius of any of our purplehotels in the

Continuing our caring theme for this Autumn, why not make a Finance Director happy by taking £5 off the price per night you pay at any of our competitors by switching to purplehotels? That’s the challenge our Director of Sales,Tracey Astles, has thrown down. As she says “by ruthlessly eliminating all of the things that add cost but not value purplehotels provide everything you want and nothing you don’t need”. So much so we think that if you’re staying anywhere else we can reduce your spend by £5 a night. Now, multiply that by all the number of nights spent by all the people in your organisation and it’s a lot. Unlike some of the pure budget brands at purplehotels cutting cost doesn’t mean cutting quality and that’s what’s unique about this offer. So, click here to take up Tracey’s challenge.   “If you would eat well in England, have breakfast three times a day”. Well, that’s not entirely true any longer but it’s not entirely untrue either. The problem with hotel breakfasts is that they ended up costing half the price of the room. Not at purplehotels. £7.95 gets you what we believe is the best value and best low cost hotel breakfast in Britain today. (£6.95 if you book on the internet). Look at the menu. Everything from fresh fruit salad and natural yogurts to Spanish tortillas, eggs, bacon and premium sausages. If you can find a better value breakfast in Britain we’d like to hear from you. A word here if I may to Shareholders of the Real Hotel Company Plc. Your Shareholder Benefits booklet has not worked as smoothly as it should have done in all locations for which my sincere apologies. We’ve updated the policies and procedures, written to all Shareholders and we’re ready, willing and looking forward greatly to welcoming you into your hotels very shortly. 

So there we are. Despite the doom and gloom in the media we’re pretty upbeat about the future. We’ve got loads going on, as you can see from the above for you to take advantage of.  

Thanks en passent to Guillaume for your comment about adding an RSS feed to this blog. That is being done as I write and will be available shortly. 

I shall look forward to speaking with you again after the LHC has performed it’s first collision and we either have the answer to video on demand, incision free surgery and the beginnings of the universe or we’ll all disappear down a black hole and we’ll meet on the planet Zog. 

In either case, enjoy the journey.

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