< PreviousAnd finally The world of Frazer Here’s Frazer’s monthly collection of the weird and wonderful ‘news’ that came his way over the last few weeks! A donation from an intriguing source Many businesses have stepped up to the plate over the past month to provide the NHS with the vital equipment it requires amidst the Coronavirus crisis. However, Frazer has stumbled across a donation from a slightly different firm than one might expect to be turned to in the pandemic. A medical fetish company has presented its entire stock of disposable scrubs to the NHS after being contacted by procurement representatives. The company did rather poignantly highlight on Twitter, and good on them for doing so, what Frazer is sure many of you are thinking: “When we, a tiny company set up to serve a small section of the kink community, find ourselves being sought out as a last-resort supplier to our National Health Service in a time of crisis, something is seriously wrong. In fact it’s scandalous.” For f***s sake In a catch up over Zoom with colleagues last month, providing some rather light- hearted news, Frazer heard how linguists had found one of the first written records of the f-word. A poem in a National Library of Scotland vault features the word, recorded by George Bannatyne in 1568 in the Bannatyne Manuscript, put together after a plague had quarantined him to his house. This is almost too eerily similar to current times for Frazer - who knows maybe the next popular swear word will be conjured up in our own quarantine. In ‘The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy’, Walter Kennedy, great grandson of King Robert III, names poet William Dunbar a “wan fukkit funling.” How delightful. © Shutterstock/ Steve Cukrov A potato for a boss? Why not? Video meetings have become commonplace as businesses try to stay connected with employees and clients during lockdown and have rather unintentionally been a key source of hilarity for Frazer this month. Frazer’s favourite moment came as a woman shared a screenshot of a Microsoft Teams meeting on Twitter, in which her boss managed to accidentally turn herself into a potato. Unable to undo it, she remained a spud for the entire meeting. I’m sure it was in no way distracting at all! The picture has received hundreds of thousands of likes and shares - as it rightly deserves. 50 Business Link www.blmforum.net © Shutterstock/ WAYHOME studio 50.qxp_Layout 1 06/05/2020 15:01 Page 1Approved training provider 1570 For further information contact Dave Newgass on 01482 211989 or email: info@wiseglobaltraining.com wiseglobaltraining.com IOSH Online Managing Safely Training Course This course is really intended for managers and supervisors. They are tasked not only to lead by example, but also to constantly remind their team members of how crucial it is to uphold their industry’s established health and safety practices. • Introducing Managing Safely • Assessing risks • Controlling risks • Identifying hazards • Understanding your responsibilities • Investigating accidents and incidents • Measuring performance NEBOSH National General Certificate Online Course The course is broken down into bite size, manageable chunks to help you learn faster and ensure you understand the course material all while moving you closer to passing your exam. • Enhance you health and safety know-how • Equips you with the knowledge and skills that allow you to perform your work better and even allow you to shape health and safety policies at work and in the community • Successfully completing this course entitles you to become an Associate Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health or IOSH • Career development - the course can also be seen as an investment towards a long and fruitful career in health and safety Expand your skills and knowledge with one of our short courses • Alcohol Awareness • Conflict Management • COSHH Risk Assessment • Dementia Awareness • Discipline in the Workplace • DSE Risk Assessment • Explore the Principles of Healthy Eating • Fire Safety Principles • Food Safety Awareness • Health and Safety in the Workplace • Induction Essentials • Induction of New Staff • Induction to First Aid - Zone 1, 2, 3, 4 (separate courses) • Leading and Motivating a Team • Manual Handling Safety at Work • Mental Health Awareness • Organising and Delegating • Performance Management • Personal Money Management • Planning and Allocating Work plus much more CHARTERED CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANTS To find out how to get your business on the up visit www.dextersharpe.co.uk Offices in Boston, Bourne, Horncastle, Lincoln, Louth, Skegness & Spilsby We pride ourselves on providing a pro-active, friendly and accessible service. Experts in Accounts and Tax Returns Tax Planning and Book-Keeping Audits and Business Advice We’re here to get you in the right direction Keeping business on the up… 51.qxp_Layout 1 06/05/2020 10:07 Page 152.qxp_Layout 1 06/05/2020 10:07 Page 1Next >