NKD Clothing

Well I think it's fair to say Black Friday 2010 was certainly a day to remember for not just the NKD Team! It all started pretty calm, quite peaceful to say the least. Deliveries appeared to be getting back to normal, Zander and Ray ploughed their way through the outstanding customer orders up in the NKD Warehouse, Sarah completed some design work for a client and I spent the morning working on the figures. Lisa and Steph were heading down to Peterborough on the train to see a client. Generally speaking it was business as normal...

At 12.15pm Steph texted me to tell me that they hadn't managed to get off the train at Peterborough - the train doors had failed to open and no passengers had been able to get on or off the train! With the girls heading to the next stop, which in this instance was London, we were all beginning to wonder if this was turning out to be a wasted journey! Thankfully our client managed to push the meeting back a couple of hours, Steph and Lisa arrived in London, the train doors opened and they ran to catch the next train heading north which was leaving in 6 minutes! They eventually arrived back to Peterborough and had by all accounts what was a very successful meeting.

Back in Edinburgh the remainder of the team heading up to The Living Room for our Christmas Lunch. We were joined on this occasion by our 2 friends - Belinda Roberts of Winning Entrepreneurs and Susie Lacroix of No. 1 Currency. Lunch was great and we bumped into a few of our clients including Richard Oliver of Harrison Field and the lovely Sandy and Sarah from Citidogs.

We moved onto one of our favourite bars, the gorgeous Tigerlily, where lots of NKD friends were out in full force, including my bestest chum Lady Laura! It seemed the whole of Edinburgh was out on Friday night. I can't quite remember what time we decided all to head home but I certainly made it home safely. The same can't quite be said for Belinda....at 04.57am I woke up needing a drink of water to quench my hangover induced thirst. For some reason I plugged my mobile in and went on Facebook when I was in the kitchen to see a posting from Belinda who had just checked out of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary! Poor Belinda had taken her dog out for a walk after we had all gone home and split her head open! 5 big staples in her head she was admitted home. Not nice.

Other injuries sustained on Black Friday in Edinburgh include our very own Ray who slipped and fell - his glasses jarred into the side of his head and he now has a lovely black eye which he can barely see out of! My solicitor Susanne was also a victim of the snow and ice (or was it the alcohol) - She woke up with a very sore leg from falling flat on her face and a cancelled bank card!

I can only say the streets of Edinburgh must have been very quiet on the Saturday - thank goodness Christmas comes just once a year!!! Have a good one everybody and stay safe!!!