Resist

The day after talking to Alan there was a SuperBurger board meeting. Jinnie set off very early for Crawley, she wanted to spend some time in the DKL office before the noon SuperBurger board meeting [more…]

Jinnie pushed the button that changed the Trattoria Trevi Group boardroom’s glazed partitions from transparent to opaque and called the meeting to order. Before talking about the project, she impressed on everyone the importance of [more…]

The minibus pulled up on the drive of the Hadley Wood House, squeezing between a Portakabin, a site toilet and a huge mound covered by a tarpaulin. Jinnie looked around at the confusion and then [more…]

The morning after her discussion and tentative agreement with Jack Baker, Jinnie and the family were eating breakfast at the terrace buffet when the Baker family arrived. Jack walked over and said, “Did I dream [more…]

The morning flight from Barbados to Antigua touched down a few minutes early having benefited from a tailwind. The only luggage that Jinnie, Trevor, Belinda and Brian had was Belinda’s trusty attaché case containing her [more…]

After their second late night running the twins were slow getting ready for Sunday morning breakfast, despite Izzy chivvying them on. Izzy was quite aware the twins were tired, but knew if they missed breakfast, [more…]

Jinnie sat in her upgraded Virgin Upper Class seat with a gin and tonic. She could get used to her and the family booking Premium and travelling Upper Class. In her view Upper Class wasn’t [more…]

Jinnie tried to ring Paolo on the train on the way back to Hadley from her meeting with Alan, but his mobile kept going to voicemail. The third time it happened, she left a message [more…]

Jinnie’s sudden increase in wealth had made her and Paolo review a few things. Paolo wanted a new car and suggested that Jinnie should also get one. However, she had decided that while DKL supplied [more…]