Seaside memories
Seaside memories
BRIAN Williamson, managing director of tax relief specialist Jumpstart, evoked memories of summer beach holidays past as he explained how he is applying lessons from his long business career to life at the Edinburgh-based business.
Interviewed by this observer for a forthcoming profile piece, Mr Williamson said: "The great thing about Jumpstart is, as we progress and [experience] the high growth, I've got to relive parts of my past where I have learned things.
"It's just utilising, like a stick of rock, all the layers that are in there, all the different colours and the different tastes.
"That's what I think makes it great fun."
Money worries
OVERHEARD in Marks & Spencer in Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street this week, a shopper in a referendum flap, she prepared to pay for her basket of goods.
"Can I have my change in English notes?" she was heard asking the cashier.
Here we go again
LAST year a fearless investigation by The Bottom Line uncovered not the first cuckoo of spring but the first muzak of Christmas.
The awful truth was that Boots was playing 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town' in its stores on November 1.
This year we can reveal that a rival store scoops the prize for the first mention of the festive season in a press release.
Yes, Asda urges customers to get saving now as Christmas is "less than 100 days away".
All that glitters...
THERE'S gold in them thar hills... or at least that's what Arran Brewery boss Gerald Michaluk briefly thought when working in Perthshire this week.
Mr Michaluk was overseeing the construction of the company's new brewery at Loch Earn when something gilt-edged caught his eye.
On closer inspection, our budding prospector quickly realised the rock was iron pyrite, or fool's gold as it is more commonly known.
But it did not stop him having a laugh at the expense of his team, whom he excitedly ordered comb the area for further deposits.
The exercise was not wholly fruitless, however - the episode has inspired Arran to brew a Scottish Highland Gold Cider, due in shelves before Christmas.
Charity joy
HATS off to the team at law firm Maclay Murray & Spens, who have raised more than £10,000 for the Teenage Cancer Trust unit at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital.
The money was raised from a range of fundraising activities, from quizzes and bake sales to taking part in the Three Peaks Challenge.
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