“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.”
Dave Barry

The above quote by the American humourist, Dave Berry should perhaps have the word tent replaced with fairground. Last season saw a large section of the year washed out, and we all thought that lightning couldn't strike twice, but it has. The amount of events that have been called off for this weekend is stagerring. We have had 3 cancelled for tomorrow. Luckily 2 of them are being rearranged and the third we are in negotiations to agree a suitable cancellation fee. Normally this isn't something we demand, but cancelling an event with less than 48 hours notice isn't on, especially when we have sub contracted a large amount of additional equipment in.

Losing another large tranch of the season is going to hurt a lot of operators, luckily with us switching to mainly corporate events we are to some degree insulated from this. If the country slides into the predicted recession, then I think there will be a sharp contraction in the amount of attractions operating in the UK.

Corporate Funfair Hire

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