Our horror themed props, See HORROR THEMED PARTIES have come in handy with a number of halloween themed bookings. I am out to night in person with a horror themed candy floss cart dispensing green candy floss, so I will post some images here after the event.

I have also been roped in by my daughter to carve her pumpkin. Normally an aunt does it for her, but with her moving away its been left to me. I have to say that at 40 years of age, this is the first pumpkin I have carved, anyway an image of it is below;


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World War 2 Themed Parties

As part of our ongoing launch of themed games units we have just launched our World War 2 themed party site. It can be found at WORLD WAR 2 PARTIES As well as a range of games units dressed up with World War 2 props and themed games, we also provide staff in military uniform, digital sound effects units providing a background ambience of dog fights, air raids, marching troops and some of the songs and music from the period.

Our chocolate fountain hire business is picking up speed steadily, we are finding that the chair cover hire side of the operation has more potential than we expected. So much so that we have now added candelabras, lighting and drapes, tea light holders, wishing wells and bay tree hire to the services offered. We will shortly be launching a new website dedicated purely to wedding room decor.

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We travel up and down the M1 motorway on an almost daily basis. For as long as I can remember, a large 15 mile section of it has been plauged by roadworks. Whenever we travel along that section I keep a keen eye out to see exactly what is being done. On the last 5 trips I didn't manage to spot a single person on the stretch, and put this down to the fact that the journeys were all early morning or late at night. Anyhow the other day I travelled the road in the middle of the morning, and guess what, I spotted people. 14 of them in total which equates to less then one worker per mile! Although I do use the word worker in the loosest sense of the word, as out of 14 people spotted, 4 of them were sat eating or drinking tea, 5 of them were sat reading newspapers, 2 of them were stretched out in the back of a minibus apparantly sleeping and the remaining 3 were walking, where to I know not, but judging by their fellow roadworkers I would say that they were either going to put the kettle on, or else to buy a newspaper.

I need to found out if the company contracted to carry the work out is paid by the day, if it is I intended to buy a large number of shares in the company as I cannot see them completeing the work in my lifetime and should imagine if they have a number of similar jobs on the go then they will be employed for life.

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Over the past month we have provided something like 8000 hot dogs to 3 corporate clients. The worst part of this job has been sourcing the bread rolls. The easiest thing to do would be order them from a bakery, but we have found that one of the major supermarket chains is half the price of the wholesale bakers, so logically we have been buying from them.

Unfortunately the said supermarket chain has a bug in their checkout system which means that they cannot input multiple purchases of bread, each individual packet has to be scanned in, or as is more usually the case, a single packet is scanned however many hundred times needed to input the order. The upshot of this is that when I appear in the supermarket the checkout girls begin to say their prayers in the hope that I won't choose their aisle.

Whenever I chance upon a new checkout girl she usually wastes 15 minutes attempting to discover a method of typing in more than one packet, but eventually she will give up like all the rest and accept the inevitable!



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Last Monday I was back at school, well not quite, what happened was I had to travel to an examination centre to sit the exam for my personal Alcohol licence in preparation for our soon to be launced mobile bar venture. I was duly placed in a little room and told that I was being monitored by cctv to ensure I did not cheat. I then sat down for a 40 minute exam which took 8 minutes to complete, although I did get 2 questions wrong so perhaps I shouldn't have rushed it.



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We are still integrating the Chocolate Experience business we acquired into our normal operations. Until we train some staff up to operate the chocolate fountains its going to be down to me, Arthur and our respective better halves to cover the wedding bookings we have. The second round of these took place last night and went off perfectly well, except for one small hitch. The event I was at I should have been able to access the room at six thirty in the evening. As most weddings do the main reception overran and it was after seven before I finally started to assemble everything. This left me with precious little spare time to get the chocolate melted for the fountain.

I had just finished the final batch, and picked up the metal whisk and napkins I had been using and put them into the now empty microwave to enable me to carry them all outside together. Unfortunately I had not realised that I had opened the door before the timer had finished, so when I closed it again the bloody thing started back up. I meanwhile was busy pouring the final jugfull of molten chocolate into the fountain base. It was at this point that I looked through the door of the microwave and realised the napkin was now on fire! I quickly picked up the microwave to rush it out of the building, unfortunately the event manager was in the room with me so it ended up a bit Basil Fawlty as I tried to vacate the premises quickly without making it obvious I was vacating the premises quickly!

Fortunately things get better from there and this chocolate fountain work seems ever so relaxed compared to some of the equipment we are used to operating, and in the past I have not been a fan of the chocolate found in these fountains, but trying the stuff we are using it is lovely, so either we are buying good stuff, or the chocolate I have tasted in the past has been rubbish.

We have also started to invest in new chair covers and sashes, and intent to offer a complete room dressing service for weddings, with everything from bay trees to archways.





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