With most of the reports coming in from the early season funfairs being favourable, it was with renewed optimism that everyone was looking forward to Easter, especially as the same holiday last year was wiped out by dreadful weather. Unfortunately as it has turned out, the bulk of the Easter fairs have seen a fairly poor level of business, so perhaps the credit crunch is having an effect after all.
We haven't bothered with any traditional funfairs this Easter, simply because of our corporate event commitments. Starting on 5th April we were in London that day (Sunday), London Monday, London Tuesday and London Wednesday, Chelmsford (about 20 miles form London) Thursday. We then theoretically had 2 days off before Easter Sunday when we were due to attend events in Blackburn and Cambridge. On Thursday evening I was contacted to provide an additional candy floss cart to an event in London (yet again). I tried to lay this event off simply because we were already spread pretty thin. Unfortunately I couldn't find another operator to take the event on so I had to do it myself. Problem was we didn't have a spare cart available (with 7 carts I expected to be able to meet all of our commitments, but I was proved wrong). This resulted in my 2 days off being spent building a new mini cart just to house one of our candy floss machines, the client told me that the room we were in had a low ceiling so I didn't get bother taking the roof to the cart with me (although once there it was apparent that there was adequate headroom), anyway I managed to build the basic cart, spray it and add some decoration in time for the event. This new cart is designed to fit into the rear of a small hatchback car we use occasionally, and is really only designed to accommodate a single item (candy floss, popcorn, ice cream etc). By the end of next week I should have managed to finish the decoration and final fitments and the cart can be added to our standard line up.
As it turned out the London job was quite pleasant, with me arriving back home about half eight this evening. As a bonus, the client turned out to have a very successful Asian wedding planning business and it looks like that one job has turned into a number of bookings, just goes to show that our original motto of try everything is still valid.
|
We haven't bothered with any traditional funfairs this Easter, simply because of our corporate event commitments. Starting on 5th April we were in London that day (Sunday), London Monday, London Tuesday and London Wednesday, Chelmsford (about 20 miles form London) Thursday. We then theoretically had 2 days off before Easter Sunday when we were due to attend events in Blackburn and Cambridge. On Thursday evening I was contacted to provide an additional candy floss cart to an event in London (yet again). I tried to lay this event off simply because we were already spread pretty thin. Unfortunately I couldn't find another operator to take the event on so I had to do it myself. Problem was we didn't have a spare cart available (with 7 carts I expected to be able to meet all of our commitments, but I was proved wrong). This resulted in my 2 days off being spent building a new mini cart just to house one of our candy floss machines, the client told me that the room we were in had a low ceiling so I didn't get bother taking the roof to the cart with me (although once there it was apparent that there was adequate headroom), anyway I managed to build the basic cart, spray it and add some decoration in time for the event. This new cart is designed to fit into the rear of a small hatchback car we use occasionally, and is really only designed to accommodate a single item (candy floss, popcorn, ice cream etc). By the end of next week I should have managed to finish the decoration and final fitments and the cart can be added to our standard line up.
As it turned out the London job was quite pleasant, with me arriving back home about half eight this evening. As a bonus, the client turned out to have a very successful Asian wedding planning business and it looks like that one job has turned into a number of bookings, just goes to show that our original motto of try everything is still valid.
|