I have been shifting around stock, buying and selling tents to hopefully end up with the optimum selection and a perfect and comprehensive collection for all events.
Lovely Olivia has bought one of the 4m Indian Pagoda tents, Emma and Sam now have the 30' x 40' Indian Raj marquee for their wedding later this year and Stephen has just collected the double to our Essex marquee to use at his garden centre (check out www.stydd.com) which will now be a wedding venue. Then Philip from Wales kindly collected some great old wooden tent poles for my Bristol marquee and left with some tent roof sections for the bike club tent that they use for their annual rally.
I love all this! And I think the last two Pagoda tents are going to Emily at Durham university! All this will mean that I funds towards some of my new expenses, especially the Paris marquee, the queen of the collection, coming soon!
I must mention a MASSIVE thanks to David who has sleeved 25' marquee poles, helped sort and measure miles of canvas walls ( a seemingly never ending task as we are going methodically through every old tent, adding logos, cleaning, mending etc) hand made giant wooden dollies and even made a tent peg puller for the 3' steel pins we secure the tents with!
I am very busy with quotes and enquiries for the summer (and taking bookings for next year too). Bookings start next weekend, through to mid September at the moment, with May, June and July busy every weekend. There is still fairly good availability though, as I have so many tents now!
I have twenty of these lovely jubley deckchairs..straight from the sea front!!
I am investigating buying uplighters now..and Topsy in chippenham is busy making up 100+
new ropes!!! Tis quite a business!
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