Good
We recently attended an event in the middle of Edinburgh, we supplied a combined Hot roast chestnuts and mulled wine cart. Now the more I see of Edinburgh the more I like it, and we found the people at this event to be particularly friendly. Normally if we are in a town centre giving something away free, then we usually end up with a queue, and people who don't even like what we are dispensing will take it just because it is free. This event however we found that people weren't greedy, and only those who genuinely liked mulled wine or chestnuts took them, we found that in common with other Scottish events, we had to explain to people that you take the shell off the chestnuts before you eat it, those we didn't tell had a tendency to try eating the lot!
Better
After the epic saga with Orange customer services, I finally managed to get them to take my bloody Iphone back, cancel my contract and then upgrade to a Blackberry. Upgrade is the operative word here, virtually every business function I use my phone for, is handled far better on the Blackberry than the Apple phone, true, if you want to play games, or download a dozen different apps that make flatulance noises then the Iphone is what you need, if you want to keep in touch with an office, have flawless and reliable email services and generally need a grown ups phone then I would recommend the blackberry. I am now getting to grips with Blackberry Messenger, which is like a free version of SMS messaging but which allows you to add images, files and audio to your text, almost like a cross with an email.
Best
We currently have 5 roast chestnut carts, with another one being made, and they are all pretty much booked up throughout December. We have secured a number of multiple bookings from 3 companies which see us providing chestnuts and mulled wine to a number of their clients. Along with our other equipment we have something like 35 events in 21 days, and we are close to adding to this as soon as current negotiations are concluded with additional companies.
Bad
The current snow forecast mean that some of the events we have will need us to set off the day before to be sure of getting there in time as no doubt there will be huge traffic delays.
Worse
The trip to Edinburgh for our recent event was quite enjoyable, we encountered a little snow on the way but overall it was pretty painless. Unfortunately coming back was a little different. About 20 miles North of Berwick upon Tweed, we ran into the back of a long line of traffic stuck due to the snow. At one point we spent over 2 hours without moving an inch, and in the end it took us twice as long to get home, as it did to get there.
Demented Fowler Welch Drivers
After spending over 2 hours stuck in the snow drift (with golf ball sized snowflakes falling for most of that time), we finally began to move, we were in our small Citroen van, and not having been out in heavy snow with it in the past I was taking things steady at around 35-40 mph on the snowy road service of the A1. All of a sudden we were moving sideways rather that forwards, the reason, a Fowler Welch artic unit had decided to drive on the wrong side of the road at 50mph to over take us, and the car in front. For what reason I don't know as after overtaking us he came up to the back of the long line of traffic that had been stuck in the snow with us, and he couldn't overtake them, so in total he gained around 25 feet. Hopefully this moron will manage to put himself in a ditch without taking any other poor sods with him. To add even more to the surrealism, when we reached the A1M past washington services, which had the overtaking lane piled with snow, but the normal lane totally clear, he proceeded to slow down ???? and travel at 45 holding the traffic behind him up, I wonder if Fowler Welch drivers take a stupidity test, or if he is just a singularly moronic member of their staff?
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We recently attended an event in the middle of Edinburgh, we supplied a combined Hot roast chestnuts and mulled wine cart. Now the more I see of Edinburgh the more I like it, and we found the people at this event to be particularly friendly. Normally if we are in a town centre giving something away free, then we usually end up with a queue, and people who don't even like what we are dispensing will take it just because it is free. This event however we found that people weren't greedy, and only those who genuinely liked mulled wine or chestnuts took them, we found that in common with other Scottish events, we had to explain to people that you take the shell off the chestnuts before you eat it, those we didn't tell had a tendency to try eating the lot!
Better
After the epic saga with Orange customer services, I finally managed to get them to take my bloody Iphone back, cancel my contract and then upgrade to a Blackberry. Upgrade is the operative word here, virtually every business function I use my phone for, is handled far better on the Blackberry than the Apple phone, true, if you want to play games, or download a dozen different apps that make flatulance noises then the Iphone is what you need, if you want to keep in touch with an office, have flawless and reliable email services and generally need a grown ups phone then I would recommend the blackberry. I am now getting to grips with Blackberry Messenger, which is like a free version of SMS messaging but which allows you to add images, files and audio to your text, almost like a cross with an email.
Best
We currently have 5 roast chestnut carts, with another one being made, and they are all pretty much booked up throughout December. We have secured a number of multiple bookings from 3 companies which see us providing chestnuts and mulled wine to a number of their clients. Along with our other equipment we have something like 35 events in 21 days, and we are close to adding to this as soon as current negotiations are concluded with additional companies.
Bad
The current snow forecast mean that some of the events we have will need us to set off the day before to be sure of getting there in time as no doubt there will be huge traffic delays.
Worse
The trip to Edinburgh for our recent event was quite enjoyable, we encountered a little snow on the way but overall it was pretty painless. Unfortunately coming back was a little different. About 20 miles North of Berwick upon Tweed, we ran into the back of a long line of traffic stuck due to the snow. At one point we spent over 2 hours without moving an inch, and in the end it took us twice as long to get home, as it did to get there.
Demented Fowler Welch Drivers
After spending over 2 hours stuck in the snow drift (with golf ball sized snowflakes falling for most of that time), we finally began to move, we were in our small Citroen van, and not having been out in heavy snow with it in the past I was taking things steady at around 35-40 mph on the snowy road service of the A1. All of a sudden we were moving sideways rather that forwards, the reason, a Fowler Welch artic unit had decided to drive on the wrong side of the road at 50mph to over take us, and the car in front. For what reason I don't know as after overtaking us he came up to the back of the long line of traffic that had been stuck in the snow with us, and he couldn't overtake them, so in total he gained around 25 feet. Hopefully this moron will manage to put himself in a ditch without taking any other poor sods with him. To add even more to the surrealism, when we reached the A1M past washington services, which had the overtaking lane piled with snow, but the normal lane totally clear, he proceeded to slow down ???? and travel at 45 holding the traffic behind him up, I wonder if Fowler Welch drivers take a stupidity test, or if he is just a singularly moronic member of their staff?
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