He and the Dyson family is listed in 59th place in this year's Sunday Times Rich List, with a £1.08 billion fortune and assets including a £3 million French chateau.
The company is headquartered in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, where it employs more than 1,200 staff.
The firm manufactures all products in Malaysia since a decision in 2002 to offshore the operation, a move which caused outcry, with 500 UK jobs axed under the switch abroad.
Friday, November 09, 2007
some, no, most days, small ironies creep up behind and pinch me
i'm only fifty-eight, after all; so i haven't lost my malmesbury accent yet
this afternoon, ( whilst back at the office to do some paperwork after the round ), jonida, a very smart & pretty girl whose english is good, & who is probably aged a lot less than 25, & whose fashion sense seems balkan at times, said
"tristan, i've always meant to ask, because of how you talk, are you foreign ?"
... curiously, i suddenly recall first noticing, at about the age of sixteen, the differences between the accents of village girls from little somerford and shipton moyne, villages that lay some three miles distant on opposite sides of the town
this afternoon, ( whilst back at the office to do some paperwork after the round ), jonida, a very smart & pretty girl whose english is good, & who is probably aged a lot less than 25, & whose fashion sense seems balkan at times, said
"tristan, i've always meant to ask, because of how you talk, are you foreign ?"
... curiously, i suddenly recall first noticing, at about the age of sixteen, the differences between the accents of village girls from little somerford and shipton moyne, villages that lay some three miles distant on opposite sides of the town
a short speculative step on a long journey towards the disposal of ghosts
earlier this year I wrote about how I'd "seen" my parents in a vivid dream.
the link is ... http://emotionalblackmailers.blogspot.com/2007/04/i-dreamed-about-my-parents.html
before and since, i've often mused on the possibility of there being ghosts, but their existence still seems entirely improbable
for a long time i hoped or rather fantasized that there might be a "soul" that drifts around for a while, and so my parents could be out there catching up on all the myriad marvels that evaded them in real life
i.e. "had we but world enough and time, this coyness lady were no crime ..." etc etc
whenever i fly somewhere i try to see the clouds and the bright sea through my mother's eyes
my father's ghost, i'm certain, would be content to linger on any sunny street corner, to listen avidly & to watch the human pantomime, as i like to do in other countries
but the best i can hope for is that i, and my siblings, and our children, are "the ghosts", and so i think again of that nice little poem by thomas hardy ...
Heredity
I am the family face;
Flesh perishes, I live on,
Projecting trait and trace
Through time to times anon,
And leaping from place to place
Over oblivion.
The years-heired feature that can
In curve and voice and eye
Despise the human span
Of durance--that is I;
The eternal thing in man,
That heeds no call to die.
the only thing that's sacred is life itself
the link is ... http://emotionalblackmailers.blogspot.com/2007/04/i-dreamed-about-my-parents.html
before and since, i've often mused on the possibility of there being ghosts, but their existence still seems entirely improbable
for a long time i hoped or rather fantasized that there might be a "soul" that drifts around for a while, and so my parents could be out there catching up on all the myriad marvels that evaded them in real life
i.e. "had we but world enough and time, this coyness lady were no crime ..." etc etc
whenever i fly somewhere i try to see the clouds and the bright sea through my mother's eyes
my father's ghost, i'm certain, would be content to linger on any sunny street corner, to listen avidly & to watch the human pantomime, as i like to do in other countries
but the best i can hope for is that i, and my siblings, and our children, are "the ghosts", and so i think again of that nice little poem by thomas hardy ...
Heredity
I am the family face;
Flesh perishes, I live on,
Projecting trait and trace
Through time to times anon,
And leaping from place to place
Over oblivion.
The years-heired feature that can
In curve and voice and eye
Despise the human span
Of durance--that is I;
The eternal thing in man,
That heeds no call to die.
the only thing that's sacred is life itself
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