Healthy and Fitness

My wife and I were coming up to celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary. With our lives so busy with work commitments and 3 children we had decided to take some time out for ourselves on this special occasion. With the accommodation booked and my parents organised to look after the kids, all we had to do was look forward to a much deserved break and celebration of our time together. While every man likes to have a bit more sexual fuss made over him on a weekend away, I wasn’t expecting too much. We have, after all, been together for 15 years.

In retirement, I do a little bit of micro-consulting to help startup businesses. One of my areas of expertise happens to be franchising, because before retirement I had franchised the company that I founded. One question I get quite a bit from small business owners that have a great business model, and lots of customers is; “should I franchise my business, how do I know when I’m ready?” Well, there are a lot of things that you must have in order to make a successful franchising company.

In the world of four wheel driving, most people know about winches and snatch straps. They are very different in many ways (including the price) but will achieve very similar outcomes. A Snatch Strap is basically a long strap with some elasticity in it, allowing the strap to stretch up to 20% of its length. The idea behind these is simple – when a four wheel drive is stuck, you attach the strap to rated recovery points on both vehicles and one vehicle pulls the other out. The advantage of a strap that can stretch is that you can get a run up and when the strap takes up it will stretch and the energy is slowly applied to the stuck vehicle. If you did it with a rope that didn’t stretch, it would either snap or it would put some serious shock onto both vehicles.