The winter months are when we usually revamp our equipment, or take care of the myriad of non essential repairs and upgrades that seem difficult to fit into our schedule during the summer season. This year however has been totally different, we never stopped during January, with a number of events mainly in the London area.
February seemed to be quieter, so I decided to get stuck into some of the jobs. The first one being a strip down and rebuild of the braking system on the helter skelter. I was half way through this as the weekend came to a close, by lunchtime Monday (4th February) I was having to speed my schedule up due to the fact that within the space of 4 hours we had successfully negotiated and been awarded an extra 7 corporate events for this month, including a week long hire of the helter skelter by a promotions company.
Normally our best month for picking bookings up is March. This year December and January were about on par with the usual level of business we receive in March, February is looking like it is going to surpass that, and if the March bookings increase by the same proportion we are going to have one heck of a summer. I am thinking of submitting an application to higher powers to have a standard day increased to 36 hours to give us a chance at coping.
We ended last month by supplying a number of Victorian side stalls along with a candy floss and popcorn cart for the official opening of a Hotel in the London area. I have to say that it was one of the most pleasant events we have undertaken to date, the hotel management and staff were lovely, even reserving a room for us to change into uniforms before the event started. It probably helped that the assistant manager came from my home town of Middlesbrough and still supported the mighty Boro football team, so it gave us some common ground.
Towards the end of this month we are presenting attraction in 3 different North East town centres, when we have details and photos of the events I will place them in a later Blog post. This brings the number of new local authorities we have been invited to work with in the North East to 5, with a number of new events promised for the coming season including a new street fair (albeit a small one).
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February seemed to be quieter, so I decided to get stuck into some of the jobs. The first one being a strip down and rebuild of the braking system on the helter skelter. I was half way through this as the weekend came to a close, by lunchtime Monday (4th February) I was having to speed my schedule up due to the fact that within the space of 4 hours we had successfully negotiated and been awarded an extra 7 corporate events for this month, including a week long hire of the helter skelter by a promotions company.
Normally our best month for picking bookings up is March. This year December and January were about on par with the usual level of business we receive in March, February is looking like it is going to surpass that, and if the March bookings increase by the same proportion we are going to have one heck of a summer. I am thinking of submitting an application to higher powers to have a standard day increased to 36 hours to give us a chance at coping.
We ended last month by supplying a number of Victorian side stalls along with a candy floss and popcorn cart for the official opening of a Hotel in the London area. I have to say that it was one of the most pleasant events we have undertaken to date, the hotel management and staff were lovely, even reserving a room for us to change into uniforms before the event started. It probably helped that the assistant manager came from my home town of Middlesbrough and still supported the mighty Boro football team, so it gave us some common ground.
Towards the end of this month we are presenting attraction in 3 different North East town centres, when we have details and photos of the events I will place them in a later Blog post. This brings the number of new local authorities we have been invited to work with in the North East to 5, with a number of new events promised for the coming season including a new street fair (albeit a small one).
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