Isn’t this great?

June fades into July in an endless stream of warm sunny days.  Most of your sales calls are in the cool of the evening when your clients are at home. You can drive out after the rush hour has eased with the hood down on your sports car, if like me you are lucky enough to have one.

So what’s not to like? Not much , I admit.  I sometimes think that I have the perfect summer job, it’s not quite so enjoyable on a cold Novemember evening when you are looking for ‘Treetops’ or ‘The Gables’ on a private road where the houses have unlit name boards at varying heights and angles, some of them impossible to read and quite a few non existant.

Still there is a downside; even in more robust markets for bespoke fitted furniture, most home owners are thinking of barbecues, sunloungers and patio furniture rather than a fitted home office or installing new wardrobes.

So there are fewer client’s to see and the siren cry of a lawn that needs mowing is tempting me away from my computer and the interior design CAD package.

My study is in the loft space and becomes almost uninhabitable at midday during the summer months, so its a couple of hours work designing and dealing with the routine marketing issues after breakfast, a few more hours of follow up phone calls after lunch and then a salad on the patio before setting off to see Mr & Mrs Homeowner about their new bespoke living room furniture when half the population are slumped in front of their TVs trying to recover from the commute from the home counties into London and back.

Now, where did I leave the watering can?