News Article Comments : Glass half-full

<strong>Days since redundancy: one month (decided against commemorative drinks party/shopping expedition) Bona fide new business leads: two (v exciting) Ratio of business to personal mails/texts sent from BlackBerry: improving</strong>

On the whole, events of the past week have reaffirmed my ‘half full’ world view. And that’s despite the very depressing news on the economy. Up to three million unemployed, and a fair few of them in the south east and London? These are surely the sort of figures we thought we’d never see again? However, there are still pubs trading out there, and brewers making beer, and some of them want PR. So this is no time to sit and weep.

I’ve attended a press launch and an industry dinner, handed out a few business cards, followed up on initial conversations and now have a couple of meetings in the diary, the most promising with a small but growing pub company. And if just one of these prospects turns into a piece of business, I might recoup my investment in