Coming, ready or not

Rocks aside, the chairman finds a dark and secluded corner in a pub and waxes lyrical on business hypotheses

"Ah - there you are," I said to the chairman of the insignificantly sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as I dropped by The Solitary Bambos for a pint or two of Fish But No Chips. "I wasn't hiding from the press or the public," he replied. "Of course not," I nodded. "You're always to be found in a darkened pub corner, your Blackberry gently fizzing away in a pint of beer." "Still, you got me," shrugged the chairman stoically. "Shall we get this over with?" "Why not?" I said. "So… how are things going at SmallBluePebble?" "All I can say is, who'd have thought mortgage lending would ha...