Stat Monkey is in office

Don't Panic! We're still here.

After the come down of Big Monday we all put our heads down and got on with the day to day grind of life in the archway. A week later and we're continuing to be overwhelmed by positivity with the caravan coverage still trundling in like a shed on wheels, and all the Freeads.co.uk KPI's going in the right direction.

With my impending departure for warmer climes I've enlisted the help of 'Stat Monkey' to keep the crew upto date with the day to day figures for the next couple of weeks.

I'm confident Stat Monkey's up for the job, he once was jailed for a bank job but was released early when he gave all the 'silver back'...that's a gorilla pun for the less ape savvy amongst you.

Caravan-a-rama!

It's been a tough day at Freeads.co.uk today.

Thursday may be the new Friday, and Friday may be the new Saturday, but I assure you Monday is still just the same old Monday - that's the Monday you never go out on because there's still a whole lot of week to go if you happen to get
boozed at the races, lose a bit of cash, and buy an ill-advised kebab to boot.

On a plus point however we're going a little caravan crazy today, Lou's dynamic, insightful and down-right brilliant research on the resurgence of the caravan in the UK has been latched onto like a particularly sticky stick and we're all mightily impressed.

http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/news/article1784734.ece

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/general/water_cooler_moments/cool+caravans/510532

We're still waiting on some feedback from the UK's No.1 caravan hater Mr Clarkson but he's proving a little elusive - although Jason did see him this morning driving a Lamborghini, it's yet to be confirmed whether he was towing a caravan.

Shabby Tuesday

Stu's prediction was correct. Things are looking fairly shabby in the Freeads office underneath the arches today. Subdued and in need of snacks is the main feeling.

But it was all worth it. Our 'stag' (plus Lou) night at the Windsor races in honour of Stu's imminent wedding was brilliant.

Like any good story there was tears (when we lost), there was laughter (and Duncan's 'Mannequin On The Move' dance), and there was a trio of bald blokes standing near us, which amused Matt, Ian and Lou more than was strictly necessary.

Virtually everyone had a winner, some were gracious in their victory and bought the beers, others formed secret betting alliances and scurried off in pairs to the bookies, one of the gang was more interested in the promo girls and another (yes you Phil) was highly shifty about whether they had had a bet at all and wouldn't say whether he was winning or losing, but most had no real clue what they were doing.

But look how happy we were when we DID win (about a fiver each).... bless us.

Fancy a Wii?

Another week over for the dynamic Freeads.co.uk team, and another week of great progress towards our ultimate goal of world domination - we'll take UK domination first, but it's good to set the sights high...

Amongst other things, on Tuesday we launched our first competition to win a nintendo wii - apparently they're pretty hard to come by, but not for Phil, he know's people who know people if you get what I'm saying...you don't? we'll he's got a Wii and he's giving it away and that's all you need worry about.

On Friday we launched our new finance centre, I may need to use it myself with an expensive wedding and honeymoon only a couple off weeks away. More short term concerns focus on what's been dubbed 'Big Monday', as the Freeads.co.uk team head out to Windsor races for the evening. I have a nagging feeling 'Big Monday' could be followed by 'Shabby Tuesday'...

The mid-afternoon slump has hit us...sigh...

Ooooof here at Freeads Towers we've hit a bit of a mid-afternoon lull.

An hour of sitting in the sun over a friendly pint to welcome our new boy Jason, lunch and then a frankly unwise mix of sweets and jaffa cakes has sent us all into a near sunshine, beer and sugar-induced coma.

Stu in particular is suffering it seems, there's a lot of huffing and puffing and standing over the air conditioning unit... think it's best not to ask. Meanwhile Phil is getting angry on the phone and Jason is still gamely munching through the Percy Pigs from M&S.

However there is something on the horizon to cheer us all... a good ol' British Bank Holiday! So get out those painting overalls and barcecues, because that's what we Brits do - we paint things badly then eat some charred cheap meat.

Enjoy kids!

It's all about boats

Ahoy there!

We're all getting in the Bank Holiday spirit a bit early here at Freeads, and it seems that our users are too.


Since it got all St Tropez in the UK weather stakes, the number of people buying and selling boats trebled in April alone.

So who know perhaps the marinas of Britain will take on some of the glamour of the French Riviera this long weekend?



And who's this cheeky chappy infiltrating our blog?
Hello sailor...