"When the consultant came round, your mum said, 'I've got a suggestion for how you could improve this place.' And when he asked how, she said, 'You could give us all a glass of sherry before dinner.' He thought it was hilarious.
"The message was, clearly, you have both a short leash and a short time frame to show us that you're on a path to improve this place".
"I'm not hoping everybody checks the bottoms of their Coke cans for the expiration date, but I am hoping that everybody is getting the message: that we are improving this place, and that I'm watching".
Some may be cheered by this; after all, increased partisanship has hardly improved the places that oldies control, such as Congress.
We didn't consider that one individual incident had improved the placing, but the combination of the two, in our opinion, we considered it had improved the placing and therefore we reversed them.
But we've been working on this project for years, striking a balance between improving the place and making sure it keeps its edge, and it's a complicated, considered and really exciting project for Soho".
Now I hope to be able to concentrate on improving the place where I live".
But, with heroic exceptions, they show little appetite for trying to improve the place.
Industrious is a far more accurate term than industry; these people have been working hard to improve the place.
Around DM1.1 billion ($500m) has been spent improving the place.The employment picture is brighter than it might be, too.
She begrudgingly agreed, but then immediately started spending money trying to improve the place.
