Members of small and independent accountants’ businesses are being invited to ‘hit the recession for six’ at Worcester Cricket Club.

Accountants in Worcestershire lay on courses every month with top speakers, and Andrew Gotch (Managing Director of the Professional Training Partnership offering advice and representation to individuals, companies and professional firms throughout the UK) is giving guidance on the New Tax Regime at the next course at Worcester Cricket Club on Tuesday (29 September) from 6 30 until 8 pm.

Growing Business investigates how an outsider can rescue a private business, sometimes from itself.

No one knew the Green Knight when he arrived at the court of King Arthur in the middle of a feast. The courtiers thought they were on a roll, but he was there to tell them they had problems they hadn’t seen.

You probably know the story. The Green Knight made the court do a lot of things they couldn’t see the point of, especially Sir Gawain. From suspicion at first, all the stakeholders ended up trusting this stranger, and Gawain definitely became willing to do whatever it took. After this intervention, the court was a more effective entity, focused on its core business and ready to get on with tracking down the Holy Grail.

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I sang a solo of Songbird on Sunday night with full accompaniment and me singing into the microphone.  Everyone told me it was good (I am not sure if they were being kind), but it stretched me all week to do something that was just a little bit outside my comfort zone.

If anybody wants a soloist for any reason, I could probably do a rendering of “Songbird” (Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac’s version is the one I chose rather than Eva Cassidy).