I dropped my car off to have its brakes done today in the north of Nottingham, at an independent Volvo place, like the place my dad used to own.
I cycled back about 20 miles home, but on the way I stopped at a little restaurant called Thyme in Lowdham in Nottingham.
It's a cafe really; if you're ever going past, you need to go there.
It was opened by the people who had what used to be our favourite family place to go called Ruddington Arms, a place that if you've ever been on a course in the past 5 or 10 years with us, you'll probably have been to; it was my happy place, and then they lost it and had to sell and move.
I've been there twice now to Thyme, and it's beautiful. It's tidy, clean, brilliant, but it's old school. You don't have a counter where you can go to order your own food, not like McDonald's.
It's not super fast-moving and super high-paced; the food is cooked entirely there for what you want, and it takes a little bit of time to get it. Some outside seating, some inside seating, and a little summer house at the back. It's totally different to a lot of the other aspects of my life.
On the other hand, and in other places I am, things are moving so massively quickly. Technology's coming on stream, AI can speed up everything, the production of documents, the production of treatment plans, the filtering of phone calls, the drafting of messages, the analytics that are being produced that need insight and action. It is extraordinarily quick.
The question is, is it better?
It all depends on who you want to be, how much money you want to earn, and how quickly.
It’s beautiful in Thyme, beautiful. I don't need a lot of money to go there, and it makes me happy and brings me peace. I want to have elements of that in my own business. I want people to be able to take time out. I want the patients to feel that they're not rushed. I want them always to have a human to speak to at the front who can look at them and understand that they're scared, frightened, upset, angry, whatever. I will never move away from that, and if it means that ultimately we have to lock the door and walk away, then I will.
And I'll just ride my bike to thyme.
Blog Post Number - 4566
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