Foreword
A YEAR AGO I took the helm from sion markets as a key element in the solution to controlling man-
Charlotte Sones (née James) as Sales & made emissions,” as our media pack puts it. Please contact me if you
Marketing Director. But the same three would like more information.
burning questions get asked of me, The adrenaline is always flowing here, and even the devastating
almost on a daily basis. floods that ripped through the UK this summer didn’t cause a ripple
1) Has she had a baby? at Isherwood Production. We have been too busy, as I know all of
2) Isn’t she bored? you have. I keep getting asked if I have been away yet this summer.
3) Was that you on the cover of the However, with another property in my mini empire I have my work
June edition? cut out for me, and there’s not a moment to spare. If I were to go on
The answer to all these questions is a holiday I would crumble under the weight of it all!
resounding NO. Admittedly, I am struggling to adjust to having to delegate on the
However, Kirsty – her sister – did home front. Once upon a time, I would have done the work myself.
recently have twins and Charlotte can In those days I had plenty of time but no money. Now the tide has
often be found with one of them cra- turned. I miss seeing a project through from start to finish, acquiring
dled in her arms. Whether this bolt into skills along the way, the tears, the sweat and the blood. An ice cold
semi-surrogate motherhood has swayed beer never tastes better and sleep never comes more readily than at
her for or against the idea herself, only the end of a day’s physical labour.
she knows.
On more than one occasion I have
I go home to builders working – and the inevitable
called to be met with a shriek of delight chaos. The cigarette butts littering the garden, the
as she looks after children, knee-deep in
dirty footprints on the carpets, the loo seat up!
flour and dough baking for her husband
– so, not so much ‘doing lunch’ as mak- Nowadays, I go home to builders working – and the inevitable
ing dinner. chaos. The cigarette butts littering the garden, the dirty footprints
For those of you who have tasted on the carpets, the loo seat up! Hardest of all is sharing my time at
Charlotte’s infectious personality (and the end of the day. I have always felt the need to befriend people
are therefore fond of her), I can happily that work for me in the naive hope they will do a good job and take
report that she is very well. care of my furniture – wishful thinking of course. I came home late
She has effortlessly swapped Selfridges recently to find the builder attacking my bay window with a hammer
for B&Q and Homebase and is always having been unable to close it. Broken, he then had the audacity to
available to offer handy DIY tips – at tell me it was already like that. So, it is no surprise that I struggle to
a cost! find the enthusiasm to crack open a beer and celebrate what we
And, with regards to the final ques- have ‘achieved’.
tion, I cannot resist telling you that it How wrong I was to have thought this was the flat of my dreams.
was in fact Charlotte on the cover of Now I can’t wait to sell it. I had no idea how depressing it is living
the June issue, and it seems we chose with all the curtains closed, feeling like a fugitive. I am very comfort-
wisely. On more than one occasion we able with nudity (in my impoverished days as an artist I worked as a
have been approached with requests to life model, although I did feel like a specimen in a jar at times), but
purchase the cover to frame or use as a I draw the line at being watched surreptitiously in my own home.
screensaver! I’m living in a goldfish bowl and, to mix my metaphors, a paper thin
Despite losing Charlotte, it has been a one at that. Even with earplugs I cannot escape the noise. I can hear
thrilling year and I have no complaints, everything, absolutely everything as I lie awake at night plotting. I
at least not business wise. Times are have had enough of London. I am going to sell up and move back to
good and our markets remain vibrant. the country. Live in a ‘new build’ surrounded by nice elderly ladies
And to add to our repertoire we are who invite me in for tea and cucumber sandwiches. I’ll drink sherry
launching a new annual title called and sit by the fire, swap my roadster for a sensible car, and spend the
Emission Dynamics, “Designed to weekends planting vegetables and walking in the countryside.
inform and educate the reader on the I clearly need a holiday.....
development of organised traded emis- Olivia Campbell, Sales & Marketing Director
2 SEPTEMBER 2007 COMMODITIES NOW
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