Hal MacLean broke the news of our first meeting under the Cleveratom flag three weeks ago. Wow, what a three weeks it has been! We’ve really enjoyed the challenges of forming and beginning to run a new company together.

We spent our second week working at the BETT education show in London’s Olympia, read about it over here at digitalcreativity.org.

So it is week four, and here I am photographing Alex and Hal outside our new office, about to enter…

In the below picture Alex rests up against the desks. We’ve room for six people, ready for growth. Out of shot is the ’sofa area’, well…. we’ll need a sofa… and a coat stand…. oh and plants



Our office will be home to the growing portfolio of projects which we are really enjoying delivering together.

I received my annual letter from Elephant.co.uk telling me my car insurance was about to expire. In the letter they explained that if they did not hear from me with any amendments to my policy, or to cancel then they would automatically renew, charging the quoted figure for another years worth of insurance. Seemed OK, I’ve been with them for years and they have always been reasonable when it came to quotes in the past.They have all my details correct on the form they sent me, except my banking details have changed. I telephoned them, pressing all the buttons to eventually get through to a human.

I explain why I am calling, and give the new payment account details. I then ask if it is possible to decrease the quote, I alwayswill pay less if I can.

We talk through the policy, changing two details:

1) The car is now a year older, I reduced its value by £2,000.
2) My job title changed from University Researcher to Company Director.

The man from Elephant pressed the buttons to get a new quote. The overall quote increased by £40.

Now either the quote had gone up because my car was worth less money, which I doubt, or Company Directors are assumed to be able to pay more money. Or is it University Researchers are considered less of a risk?

I stated that I’d get back to Elephant because I’d now need to phone around other insurance companies for comparative prices, all of a sudden the price dropped back down to the first initial quote.

I hate insurance, it is such a con.

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The Cleveratom team are at BETT, unpacked and ready to go. This is the smart looking ‘Create at BETT’ Stand which in the picture is still being built, and holds the Cleveratom branding:

Cleveratom will be working on the stand with a group of young people from King Harold School to demonstrate the latest and greatest new and emerging technologies.

Come and see us, we are at the top of the stairs in the National Hall Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. Hal is also representing Cleveratom’s work in building schools of the future on the ‘Tomorrows Learners Today’ stand in conjunction with Heppell.net (stand C62) downstairs in the Grand Hall.

Come and see us, the BETT Show is always good fun.

Read what Hal has to say about the event (click here).

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