Our Brand New Executive Centre Lounge - Revamped

The Face lift!

Our stunning new Business Centre Lounge - note the unusual lights! - designed by Steve Fury and hand crafted by Mark Hendry.

We decided to start the new year with a big bang and to completely update our Executive lounge. Since January we have been updating, or rather giving a complete makeover to our executive centre lounge.  Below you can see the whole process. So now our students who come to learn Executive English in Portsmouth can do it in style!

The Before Pictures:

Before

Work started

Work started

The During the Process Pictures: 
With our extraordinarily talented builders Mark (Hendry) and Rick (Elliot) - who also made the front of the building the beautiful feature that it is!

The boys at work.

During.

During 

Some More 'Reveal' Pictures of our Executive English Centre Lounge.

Charlies Angels anyone ;-)

We have to give credit to:

Steve Fury for the scoping and design concept http://www.designfury.co.uk/

Richard Jones  for the furniture: http://www.apresfurniture.co.uk/

Mark Hendry and Rick Elliot for all the building work and amazing lights.

Adam Travers and Terry Thorne for all the fiddly bits (and doing the electrics and organising the external contractors).

So a massive thank you to; Steve, Richard, Mark and Rick, Adam and Terry who all helped to create the whole look and transform the whole area – many thanks to all of them from LSI for doing such an amazing job!

Stop and Smell the Coffee

"Coffee is a language in itself."

Jackie Chan

We all got very excited when our new coffee machine arrived in the executive centre - real coffee at last.  Of course we still have filtered coffee for those who prefer it but now we can have a real cup of coffee when we want, with a little kick in it.

Some Interesting Facts about Coffee:

100 cups of coffee is considered the lethal dose! However French philosopher Voltaire apparently drank 50 cups a day!

The Italian government regulates Espresso because it is believed to be an essential part of Italian daily life!

Espresso and your diet: brewed espresso contains 2.5% fat while filtered coffee only has 0.6% (but which tastes better?)

In Italy the average age of a Barista is 48 – and it is a very respected profession.

Coffee is the second most sold commodity in the world (Oil is first).

Dark roasted coffee beans contain less caffeine than the light roasted beans.

Approximately 2 billion cups of coffee are drunk each day in the world.
 

In the UK (with a population of approx 63 million) the British drink 165 million cups of tea daily or 60.2 billion per year whereas the number of cups of coffee drunk each day is estimated at 70 million. (So we are still a nation of tea drinkers but coffee is gaining in popularity fast!)

Happy people!