We always finish on a sweet note, some homemade cake or yoghurt with fruit and nuts, drizzled with linden honey.
Still, it has been a successful month, with 8 victories in 13 games and the chance to finish on a winning note.
Factor in the desire of both sides to finish on a winning note and the atmosphere ahead of Saturday's game is fractious to say the least.
I would not choose to make an announcement myself, but rather let the manager tell everyone else in the staff meeting - this way no one feels left out and the meeting finishes on a happy note.
The novel loses its footing partway through, when the scope narrows and the dialogue grows stilted, but it finishes on a powerful note of moral murkiness that suits the gloomy, damp atmosphere of the Pacific Northwest.
The discussion finished on a note of optimism, with Staunton arguing that if the sector focused on what was achievable, there was good reason to be positive.
Pared-down and finishing on a note of transcendent calm, the book enjoyed global success and laid the seeds both of Solzhenitsyn's Nobel prize, awarded in 1970, and Khrushchev's downfall.
"[Since] the Faces never finished on a good note... it would be nice to finish on a good note, and that would be that".
