I am slowly recovering this morning from our first event of the year. It was only a small event but nevertheless an enjoyable one. We provided a couple of Victorian style games units to a nightclub venue in London which makes it the earliest event of the year for us. They went down well and I think we could see some repeat bookings from the venue. We finished at two am and by the time we had dismantled and packed everything it was about two thirty. It must have taken us an hour to get through the traffic and out of London, the place was really buzzing. One thing I did notice was the catering supplier who operated at the side of us selling Thai food. They had NO washing facilities whatsoever, NO aprons or uniforms, NO electrical safety systems for their lighting and a bunch of gas cylinders all grouped together at the side of their open flame burner. Any of these failings is enough to send a health and safety officer into cardiac arrest whilst visiting a funfair, swiftly followed by an instruction to cease trading until everything is put right. If anyone from a local authority health department reads this could they explain to me why the funfair industry is so severely monitored, when every other Tom Dick and Harry can pretty much make their own rules up?

On the way in we spotted the new signs announcing the Low Emissions Zone (LEZ) Ken Livingstones latest attempt to extort money from everyone. Some of the fairground vehicles have managed to obtain an exemption from the charge for a period, but anyone who's vehicles don't qualify are looking at something like £200 plus PER DAY for using their vehicles in the capital, if Ken keeps it up he will single handedly be able to destroy the funfair industry in the capital.

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