Supposedly all of the stories below are true, and if so then prepare to be amazed and educated at the same time. Having said that, they were sent to us by Jon Clayson of Hunters Estate Agents, so jump to your own conclusions.

So, did you know :-

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, Don’t throw the baby out with the Bath water..

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Everyone is affected by the current difficult times, but don’t get carried away with the so called bargains which are being offered.  Even now, you really do get what you pay for.
The Far East has seen the effect of the world slowdown, and are selling off lots of old stock at  ridiculous prices; UK dealers are then selling this stuff on at absolute minimum margins, just to keep the cash flowing. So you may pay a lot less than you expected, but in the longer term the hidden costs will catch up with you. A limited guarantee and the lack of spare parts will mean that your great office furniture deal will reach its end of useful life much sooner than you expected.

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We received this list of  one liners from our reliable source of office humour, Jon Clayson of Hunters Estate Agents in West Sussex.  Although they may not be Tommy Cooper originals, they are in his style and we list them here as a tribute to a great comedian :-

I met this bloke with a didgeridoo and he was playing Dancing Queen on it. I thought, ‘That’s Aboriginal.’
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This lorry full of tortoises collided with a van full of terrapins. It was a turtle disaster.
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I told my girlfriend I had a job in a bowling alley. She said ‘Tenpin?’ I said, ‘No, permanent.’
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I went in to a pet shop. I said, ‘Can I buy a goldfish?’ The guy said, ‘Do you want an aquarium?’ I said, ‘I don’t care what star sign it is.’
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All businesses never have enough storage space, and even the most well intentioned office ends up with boxes on the floor, or on top of filing cabinets, which make the office  look untidy.

However with careful planning you can maximise your storage space with minimal cost. Proper planning combined with modern storage solutions can give you what you require .

You really need to speak to an office furniture dealer or visit a showroom to see what is available.  In the meantime the following may give you a better idea of what options are available :-

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The dinosaurs were great creatures. Large, bulky and cumbersome, they occupied  most continents in the  prehistoric world. They were at the top of the tree in evolutionary terms and nothing  questioned their presence, and then…..
A huge asteroid hit Earth and changed its climate cataclysmically; the lumbering and heavy-footed dinosaur could not keep up with the times and one by one they crashed to the ground, dying  from starvation.

 In less than 80 years they had become extinct; the only proof of their existence being a massive collection of dinosaur bones, buried deep under ground, all over the world.

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Another set  of gems from Jon Clayson of Hunters Estate Agents in West Sussex. Maybe the Estate Agency business is even quieter than the office furniture business.

Anyway first of all a great mini film ( 4mb) so make sure you have fast connection

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( please note that it is clean and we didn’t supply any of the office desks or chairs)

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First of all a sobering fact – 90% of businesses that lose data from a disaster go out of business within 2 years.  So it goes without saying that the most important thing you can do for the prosperity of your business is make regular backups of ALL of your important records and data and store them in a separate place to your normal office. There are many IT services out there who will do this for you for a reasonable monthly fee.

But have you thought about the other equally catastrophic consequences of  a disaster?

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This guide is designed to help you work out roughly how much it is going to cost you to get the modular meeting table you want.  There are many different styles and prices out there, but hopefully we will be able to help you find what you are looking for.

First of all you need to work out how flexible you want your modular tables to be. You have to decide if the room is going to be used for many different purposes, such as meetings, interviews, training, and even reception parties, or whether it will always be used just for meetings and conferences

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These amazing photographs are of a street artist which were  emailed to us a few weeks ago by Jon Clayson, who we have been supplying office furniture for his estate agent offices in South East England.

The artist is an English man called Julian Beever and he has worked all over the world

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This, and subsequent pages are dedicated to a good friend and client of ours,  Jon Clayson, and we have been supplying him with office furniture for many years

Jon is the owner of Hunters Estate Agents in Burgess Hill, and regularly sends us funny stories, jokes, clips etc, which have been sent to him by his many customers and friends. We have provided a selection below, and if you are ever looking to sell or buy property in Sussex or Surrey, then you should contact this man :-

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