The chairman finds himself suddenly barred from the pub with the not-so-friendly little yellow squares for wallpaper
"Barred - how in the name of Wagstaff can we be barred?" exclaimed the chairman of the insignificantly sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as we tried to buy a pint or two of Lord Pursy at The Snakes and Ladders. Yes, of course you know it - the pub I may once have called The PSecond Coming? Wallpaper with little yellow squares all over the place? That's the one. "I've never heard anything so ridiculous," the chairman continued to fume as I stood back, happy to let him take the lead - and the barman the punishment. "I've never been barred from anywhere in my life." "Well, sir, the...
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