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SPRATTY SAYS 19th January 2008
Hey Folks me again! Enjoying a top quality ambient player comfort level on the Clarence. The rain seems to have settled down to necessity levels, the mercury seems remarkably mild and the remnants of the festive season are disappearing fast, mainly towards my own personal and rapidly growing equatorial zone.
On the sporting front refer paragraph 1. Although my sports management team has almost finalised my schedule of activities for 2008 and it looks like a busy year.
I was watching floodwater roaring under the Bridge last weekend, resisting the inexplicable urge to throw rocks at struggling wildlife, why do blokes think like that? When I began to ponder that we appear to have dodged yet another rather wet bullet.
Highlighting the uncomfortable juxta positioning of a massive and relatively untamed river with a burgeoning and aging population and it's requisite infrastructure. Not wishing to come the raw prawn, I do wonder how far away is the day when the issue of permanent flood mitigation guaranteeing the safety of floodplain dwellers, with the useful byproduct of stored supplies of precious drinking water becomes a more populist issue than say.. the recent not a drop campaign. After a discussion with my neighbours over the back fence, we can see pressure eventually forcing a Prawn Plebiscite perhaps joining in the Bovine Suffrage movement in the not too distant future.
On the workfront, it's not premature to congratulate Craig Makins for achieving the elite status of Master technician for Ford. Joining our very own Justin Boon, as arguably the only Technicians to achieve this status in the Clarence. The process takes around 10 years and involves many hundreds of hours of training and learning to solve issues relating to many thousands of Ford cars. Many of the skills acquired are transportable to other makes. When added to our enviable success rate fixing NRMA related roadside problems there is no better automotive diagnostic team in the area.
Who better to maintain your car...especially if it happens to be a Ford?
Also on the workfront, with over 200 cars, caravans, campers, utes, 4wds and lots more to choose from Mighty River really does have something for everybody on two big sites either side of the River. As always the good stuff doesn't last long, but with stacks of great trade-ins finding their way to us there is always something new to check out.
Finally in other work related news, Chris Osborne of Grafton Rhinos fame has joined us at Mighty River in our sales department. Connections developing the team had the foresight to recruit a Captain Coach with extensive Ford sales experience, and a terrific bloke, how cool is that? Our thoughts are with him and his family as he has returned temporarily to Bathurst to take delivery of his third child, in spite of this I have assured him Clarence Passports will be available to all his family. So in the next week or two call in and see how experienced he really is!
Happy motoring (and be careful)
Spratty