We are still receiving an avalanche of orders each day. We now have approximately 3 times the number of events booked for this year, as we had booked in the whole of 2006.

Our corporate activities have taken a giant stride forward, with most of this increase in workload coming from entertainment companies. We are currently supplying an attraction for a major companies ad campaign, pictures will be posted here after the event. Another new possibility is that of corporate branding. We are in talks with a major company who have contacted us to ask if they can decorate one of our shooting galleries in their corporate logo to attend a number of festivals around the country. This is the type of work we are concentrating on this season, so hopefully this could become a regular occurrence.

A major operator in the South has announced his intention to become the countries first "Carbon Neutral Funfair Operator." I don't think the timetable he has set out for this is achievable, but the aims are laudable, and we will be watching with interest the methods he uses to try and reach this target. If we can use the same systems to achieve a reasonable reduction in carbon output then we will follow suit and announce a carbon reduction plan of our own.

Any one wanting information on branding a funfair attraction for a marketing event then please feel free to contact us. We can supply a complete range of funfair rides and games


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We have a very good deal with Orange for all of our phone services. However this month, my phone alone has landed me with a bill of nearly £300 pounds. In fairness I am dealing with around 15 enquiries a day, and have been doing so for the last couple of months, so I suppose it is not too bad really.

We have just attended an event in Blackpool for a company called Modus. They operate a number of shopping centres and asked us to supply a candy floss cart for a St George's day event at the Hounds Hill centre in Blackpool. It was saddening the number of people who came up for their free candy floss and didn't know it was St Georges Day. Many of the younger (under about 40 year old) visitors didn't appear to know who St George was!

We are just putting the finishing touches to a package for a film production company, filmaing a television ad. It started out as a relatively easy job, logistically, until they switched venues from Newcastle Upon Tyne to Gloucester, necessitating a complete replan of our logistics, as both the helter skelter and ferris wheel we were planning on using were already in the North East, but thats life.




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When the renewal of my personal car was due, I decided to switch from my existing insurer to Tesco car insurance as they saved me around £120. I completed the forms over the phone and was duly insured. A letter arrived about a month later asking for proof of my no claims discount, so I forwarded them the renewal notice from my old company with the NCD printed on it. This they promptly lost, so I sent them a copy, they rang me to say that they don't accept copies so I rang my old insurers who told me they would send me another original letter.

This arrived about 2 weeks later, I promptly sent it to Tesco's recorded delivery, they rang me 2 days later to tell me it had arrived too late and they had cancelled my policy. After a discussion with them they couldn't reinstate my policy, but gave me a new one starting from that day, about 3 months after the original. Everything went great for 3 weeks until a letter arrived asking me to prove my no claims discount. I pointed out the letter I had sent them already, "Can't use that sir !",
"Why not", I asked,
"That was for your old policy, we need another one for this policy", I explained the hassle I had already endured and he offered a compromise, "Ring me through your original insurers name and policy number an we will ring them".

A couple of days later after tracking this information down I did just that, "Whats the telephone number for them sir",
"I don not know", I replied, "Surely you must have one for them", the company was Zurich a multinational insurance giant.
"Sorry sir, we have no way of getting in touch with other insurance companies!". Great I thought, what the hell do they do if their clients car crashes into one insured by another company, ignore it.

I rang my business insurance brokers who contacted Zurich for me and obtained a letter clearly stating that when I took my original insurance out with Tesco, I had a full no claims discount. I dispatched this one recorded delivery and sat back in relief.

2 days later a letter arrived from Tesco telling me that they couldn't accept this letter as it only covered the period up to the original policy I took out with Tesco. They want one to cover the period between the original policy and the second policy they took out for me! So now it looks like I will need to ring Tesco up and ask for a letter covering this period, when it arrives I will need to then put into another envelope and send it back to Tesco's!

One thing I have learned is that I hope I never have an accident whilst covered by this bunch of clowns.


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Radio Trent FM recently ran a competition called the runaway bride. A number of brides set off from Nottingham with £10 each and had to make it as far as possible in 24 Hours. The winning bride managed to reach Hong Kong!

For her troubles she won a complete wedding, rings, reception, catering and our helter skelter and swing boats to keep the kids occupied. In truth there weren't that many kids at the event and we had an easy afternoon. Mid way through one of the Trent Fm staff told me Twiggy was going to have a ride on the Helter Skelter. Now I always thought Twiggy was a model that had originally been a little thin, but had since filled out to become a really attractive woman. Imagine my disappointment when a little thin guy grabbed a mat and ran up the stairs. Seems Twiggy is the breakfast show presenter on Radio Trent!

The day after we were in Birmingham at a Sikh temple for a birthday party. There were about 300 guests to this event making it probably one of the biggest birthdays we have been to. The people were absolutely lovely. I only had to mention a cup of tea and within minutes one would be pressed into my hand. On enquiring if I was hungry they offered to send out for Pizza for me, but being at an Indian event I was happy to eat the food they had already prepared, which in all honesty was far nicer than your average pizza anyway.




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