{"id":1685,"date":"2016-01-22T09:35:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T09:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2017-01-16T11:40:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T11:40:49","slug":"looking-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/looking-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must first apologise for my tardiness in writing a blog, I&#8217;ve been working for Floors of Stone for over four months now and while my colleague Molly, who started around the same time as myself, has been very active on the blog side of things and already written three, I have yet to make an entry.\u00a0 So here goes, my job title is bookkeeper, which means I\u2019ll rarely be found answering the phone to customers, what\u2019s much more likely is that I\u2019ll be inputting invoices in to Sage or completing sales receipts.\u00a0 I focus more on the admin side of things than actually selling like most of my colleagues.\u00a0 It may sound quite tedious, inputting data and working with figures all day, but I really enjoy it, and I certainly feel I made the right choice coming to work here.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just the job that I feel has vindicated my decision to start working here, it\u2019s also my colleagues.\u00a0 Everyone was so helpful when I first started, and made me feel really welcome.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve found that we all have a lot in common and everyone gets on brilliantly, and when you spend eight and a half hours a day, five days a week together, it cannot be underestimated how important that is.\u00a0 Also the wonderful surroundings we are fortunate to work in add to the enjoyment of the job.\u00a0 As I sit here now, I can look beyond my computer screen out the window and see a family of swans making their daily waddle around the mill, passing the wooden cart that the chickens, peacocks and guinea fowl enjoy exploring.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"sharer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Peacock-CotesMill.jpg\"><ul id=\"socialshare\"><!--<li class=\"fb\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dialog\/share?app_id=688330137993706&display=popup&href=https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/looking-forward\/?img=https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Peacock-CotesMill.jpg\"><\/a><\/li><li class=\"tw\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/looking-forward\/&text=Looking Forward\"><\/a><li>--><li class=\"pt\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button?&url=https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/looking-forward\/&media=https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Peacock-CotesMill.jpg\"><\/a><li><\/ul><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"sharer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Cart_CotesMill.jpg\"><ul id=\"socialshare\"><!--<li class=\"fb\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dialog\/share?app_id=688330137993706&display=popup&href=https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/looking-forward\/?img=https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Cart_CotesMill.jpg\"><\/a><\/li><li class=\"tw\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/looking-forward\/&text=Looking Forward\"><\/a><li>--><li class=\"pt\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button?&url=https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/looking-forward\/&media=https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Cart_CotesMill.jpg\"><\/a><li><\/ul><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Without going into too much detail, Floors of Stone, since it started trading in 2008, has grown year on year, and again in 2015 we have hit many of the targets we set ourselves.\u00a0 Despite this, we never look to rest on our laurels, and we\u2019re always looking to improve the way we do things.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen this first hand with the new online system.\u00a0 It was introduced in August this year, and it really has added another dimension to the company.\u00a0 It allows customers to find the stone they want on the website and purchase there and then, which for the fast-paced world we live in, works wonderfully well.<\/p>\n<p>Another area we\u2019re looking to grow is our product range.\u00a0 Despite already having an extensive and varied range on offer, we&#8217;ve recently added to it again with the Dove Grey Tumbled Limestone and the Bianco Carrara Honed Marble. \u00a0We will always look to keep improving every area of the company possible, and I&#8217;m excited to be a part of it moving in to 2016.\u00a0 Happy (belated!) New Year!<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"sharer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Dove-Grey-Tumbled-Limestone2.jpg\"><ul id=\"socialshare\"><!--<li class=\"fb\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dialog\/share?app_id=688330137993706&display=popup&href=https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/looking-forward\/?img=https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Dove-Grey-Tumbled-Limestone2.jpg\"><\/a><\/li><li class=\"tw\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/looking-forward\/&text=Looking Forward\"><\/a><li>--><li class=\"pt\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button?&url=https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/looking-forward\/&media=https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Dove-Grey-Tumbled-Limestone2.jpg\"><\/a><li><\/ul><\/div><\/p>\n\n\t<ul id=\"socialbar\" class=\"x8\" style=\"margin-top:0px; float:left;\">\n\t\t<li class=\"tw\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/looking-forward\/&text=Looking Forward\"><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"pi\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button?&url=https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/looking-forward\/\"><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"gp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/looking-forward\/\"><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/looking-forward\/&title=Looking Forward\"><\/a><\/li>\n\t<\/ul><ul id=\"socialbar\" class=\"fb-live\">\n\t<li style=\"margin-top:1px\">\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/looking-forward\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\" data-action=\"like\"data-show-faces=\"false\" data-share=\"true\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\t\n\n\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must first apologise for my tardiness in writing a blog, I&#8217;ve been working for Floors of Stone for over four months now and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":2336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cotes-mill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floorsofstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}