Seattle sky needle

Great evening on the needle, 41 seconds up and what a view! We then took the sky train and had a good dinner at wild ginger - very nice! Seattle is a great town!
2 more days of training - then home...
Nialls and Jo are having a good time in Penn - all is good.

Shopping tonight!

Frasier

Nialls is clearly enjoying himself in Pennsylvania. It would seem that he and Bobby are each suffering different forms of jet lag. Here Bobby gives us an update of his progress in Seattle: 'Seattle is a great town, and we've had a great time here. 3 days of training down and 2 to go. We've made some real friends - good friends. This is always the way with training. You work with people intensely for 2 days and suddenly, you don't want to say goodbye.'

BEFORE: Why are we holding this gnome?

AFTER: Happy to hold the gnome!

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania welcomes Jo and Jeremy

Jeremy writes One of the few things I go without while travelling is TV. It seems the perfect solo entertainment form and yet I enjoy the abstinence and am almost proud I ignore the set for the entire duration of my stay in whichever hotel I find myself in. I have just done something which might seem cruel or impatient, I rang the front desk to ask them to call the room next to me to turn down their TV. I did this at 3:30 am and as Bob states, here I am as he is often, writing a post during the jet lag phase of adjustment. Oh by the way the TV went off straight away, my neighbour must like to fall asleep to the comforting tones of anchormen, newscasters and weather girls. Not a bad way to drop off, your mind reassuringly telling you that the world is busy, other people are covering things,you're on a break now, sleep. While Bob is in Seattle I am likely to be on here occasionally too, so you get two angles on the travels of the Reality boys, as the double act has split and reformed giving us more breadth, scale and ultimately less travel for the two of us. In our new couplings we can do 50 percent less travelling and 100 hundred percent more work, yes it's odd maths I know. Aside, er aside. Jo and I flew through Newark and onto Wilkes Barre and were collected by Karen, our main contact and Rebecca. We got back to the hotel and went out with one of the other senior guys Scott, and also Chris who seems to be a big fan of Colombia, he has its name on all of his upper body clothing. We went to the Chicken Coop and after discussing Movember we played a game of renaming the other months and what they could become in bringing awareness to causes, creeds and charities. Here's the list. After Decembeard and Fanuary, we offer an alternative Tranuary, we move to Gaypril,then onto Juleye, Sextember and my personal favourite, a month where men restyle what I guess must be their version of the pubis mound, Cocktober. So as you see we got on famously and set the bar quite high for the week. I think that humans often test out each others tolerance levels and want to know that after a hard day of working and discussing work we can all be allowed to be silly without harm or judgement. Jo and I are very lucky to be in with such a friendly down to earth bunch of people. After a good nights sleep and waking at 7:30 we had a great breakfast and Missy and Robert looked after us and commented on our accents, Jo has a light Edinburgh voice which can move from a soft purr of a diesel cab waiting to collect you to a shiny clear lake with sunlight bouncing off the water surface with a full reverberating echo. I've yet to experience the Clyde ship builder but I feel it's there. Mine is more public school boy tones with vast early life experience thrown in and hints of cover up through choosing words you don't think I'll use and what can be a Vine, Clarkson or Mckellen with my intonation. Robert my egg chef wants to be on cruise ships and he knows all about Kate and Wills baby joy and wanted me to know that that the invasion of privacy they experienced that led to her being topless was something that he abhorred. I told him it had made her seem more real and hugely appealing to men and women alike. Which man doesn't want his girlfriend or wife to go topless and how many women might just whip them off to get a proper tan so they enjoy their spectacle in the mirror more which will allow them to say to themselves that they have kept their tan as Autumn fast approaches, which will temporarily distract them from thinking and saying aloud, untrue things about their bodies. I digress, but that is what this blog is, I hope a digression for you as much as it is for me. I better get back to sleep as 53 people are coming to the Jo and Jeremy show in the morning and for the next three days we are changing the way they think about selling so I better lie back and finish my Julian Barnes and then nod off, till tomorrow, n night.

Dr Frasier Crane here and who's my caller on line 1?

'My first caller here in Seattle tonight, is none other than international sales trainer Bob, Bobby, 'Beardy' Morrell. How are you Bobby Boy?' 'Thanks Frasier, well I don't know if you can help me but my problem is very simple - jet lag. I arrived last night after a 14 hour trip via San Francisco from London and after two intense hours of sleep I awoke as if an electric charge had been applied to my backside. I am now frighteningly awake for someone so utterly tired!' 'I can understand that Bobby, so tell us about this trip?' 'Well, I am here in Seattle, and my friend Jeremy is in Pennsylvania in a hotel overlooking woodland and a creek, I overlook a Freeway, but that's fine.... He is working with Jo for the next 4 days in Penn, I am here with Sam in Seattle...we were met by a lovely lady who has escorted us to our hotel and made us feel very welcome.' 'And what is your work?' 'We are training sales agents to more effective on the telephone, and my concern is that my body clock will force me to shut down mid-delivery - any tips Frasier?' 'Well, Bobby you have come to the right place. You may not realise but Seattle is the home of Starbucks, and you can have their coffee drip fed into your system so that the combination of caffeine and adrenaline will keep you awake and alert for the duration of your stay - why don't you blog back here later and tell us how it's going, I'm sure that me, Roz and all our listeners will be fascinated to hear about your progress' 'Thanks Frasier, will do!' Now for those of you who have never watched Frasier that exchange is meaningless - but what do you want I've been up since 4.44 am!