Metia is twenty years old tomorrow - Friday 25th July - as you'd imagine, everyone at the various Metia offices around the world will be celebrating with a glass of champagne or two.

If you too want to wallow in nostalgia for 1988, I can recommend:

• Wikipedia's listing for 1988 - there's a nice timeline - Wimbledon won the FA Cup, so it was an auspicious year for plucky outsiders
• the I Love 1988 site from the BBC (it features the Ninja Turtles, Bros and the launch of Richard & Judy's Good Morning breakfast TV show, just to remind you what a cultural highspot 1988 was).
• or choose a track from the BBC's 1988 Jukebox (Yazz and The Only Way is Up probably best fits how Clare and I were feeling at the time)

Short and sweet is always best, so a brief word of thanks to all of the 200 or so, talented people whose endeavours make the business what it is today, and thanks also to all those who helped us along the way, whether as a customer, an employee, or just a friend of the business, of whom there have been many. Thanks all.

Well, I know exactly where I was this day twenty years ago - plotting world domination in a Cafe off Carnaby Street, just Clare, myself, a mobile phone and a lot of optimism - but where were you?

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PS - I have no idea who the people in that photo are ;-)