Thursday 5 February

We had a finance meeting today. I recommended that we set the return on the property we were discussing at 6%, which I’d calculated to be a good conservative estimate, but Kevin, one of our new guys, he’s quite young, sleepy cornflower eyes, had estimated 8%, and was pushing for that. I was going to argue my case, but I could see Kevin had stuck his neck out trying to impress Norman, so I thought, no, better to be kind than right, and so I let him have a win. I was still feeling bad about not letting Perry have his way the other day. Kevin was really pleased. Maybe Donna’s saying this month is a winner. I definitely felt better afterwards.