On Thursday 22 January I attended the Business Excellence Awards Dinner at Portsmouth Guildhall on behalf of Netbasic.

As the rest of the company were away on the annual skiing holiday we arranged for various members of staff and volunteers from Naomi House Children’s Hospice and our bank manager to attend as our guests. The awards are run by The News, with various local companies sponsoring each category, Sally Taylor – the face of BBC South Today – was the compare.

Netbasic received three nominations: Business of the Year, Small Business of the Year and Achiever of the Year. Luke was the overall winner of Achiever of the Year 2008 and Netbasic won Highly Commended Small Business of the Year 2008.

To say I was nervous about the possibility of going on stage in front of nearly 500 people to receive the awards would be an understatement! Sii produced this video from the ski slopes of Meribel, France to be shown when Luke’s award was announced.

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Netbasic was the only company to have received 3 nominations and to win 2 awards – didn’t we do well. Congratulations all round!

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I obviously have Jon fooled with my impressions of King Julian – he brought Maurice himself over all the way from Madagascar to serve my every need.

Here I am in my throne with Maurice while the peoples are worshipping me!

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Mr T (24) had been showing signs of cracking for a while, but it wasn’t until yesterday that it became clear – he just couldn’t handle it anymore.

What a mug! May he rest in pieces.

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