Dutch masters

Here's something we bet they don't recommend in the Lexcel or Investors in People handbooks.

Word reaches us from Cornwall firm Sproulls that its three partners went on a weekend jolly to Amsterdam to celebrate the firm's success.

But unlike Manchester firm Donns - whose partners we reported last month had a champagne-filled trip to Paris on a private plane - our correspondent explains that 'being Investors in People and politically correct, all our staff went too because they are the ones who do most of the work'.

And here's the bit we're not quite so sure about: 'The sharing of exotic substances does nothing but good for partner/staff relations.' No wonder the letter was signed 'The grateful girls at Sproulls'.