The Gerrard Chronicles 2002

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Reuters threw a 21st Birthday Party for the Dealing system.

Every honest person in Reuters admits that the Dealing Project would never have happened if it had not been for Ken, recruited to turn the failing network project round, so he was invited to this party on April 4th. Not surprisingly, most of the attendees had either left Reuters, been thrown out or shafted in internal ‘reorganisations’. Such is the reward for brilliance in a large, burocratic multi-national company. All Ken's team had long left & they were the brightest & the best the company had. Our friend, Richard Williams, was choppered in the latest round of sackings, despite his boss saying he was indispensible.

Gerry Murphy, Ken's No. 2 on the project, now at Logica

Martin Davids had the unenviable job of making it all fit together

Lily Teo, Terminal Queen

JARNDICE vs. JARNDICE

No one ever used the garden at the back of our St. Peter's Street flats, which was just as well, as the wall fell down. Fortunately, Louise at the bottom thought half the garden would make a refuge from her children & bought it from us. However, Louise & David are both lawyers & hired yet another to do the negotiations with our mouthpiece, Michael Palmer. The volume of paperwork generated over 20 square metres of mud was a wonder to behold. Fortunately, it did not quite develop into the famous Dickensian case. The profit slipped nicely in under our Capital Gains Tax obligations, so everyone was happy. Ken worked hard to level the garden & might even pave it, being largely, an odd-job man for the Art & Science flats now that the computer development business seems to have come to an end. Ken has had to decorate three flats this year. Having had the 'tenants from Hell' who badly damaged the basement flat in St Peter's Street, then complained to the Environmental Health that it was uninhabitable, with which both EH & Ken agreed, there was several months work to do on it.

However, charitable computer work takes more time now than money-making ever did!

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