Roydosaurus

OUR recent diary item regarding Mark Robertson of Ryden telling a seminar that he was going to ‘speak in square feet’ (rather than in square metres) that day, struck a chord with his senior partner, Roy Durie.

Durie told us: “I was interested to see Comprop's article on metric v imperial. I tried to buy a new Imperial scale rule yesterday and the shop assistant looked at me as if I was a dinosaur.”

Would that make him an inchthyosaur? Mind you, it’s heartening to hear that senior partners are still prepared to get down and dirty with a measuring tape, rather than pass their days in blue sky thinking or counting their cash. We had assumed that their only requirement for an Imperial measure was when ordering a pint of Guinness or Becks…