So Kathryn and I at Candytuft HQ are going to be exhibiting aboard the SS Nomadic this Sunday with Our Events NI. After the Quirky Weddings show I think this should be a bit more relaxed. My good friend Gary Boal from Boal Photography will be exhibiting along with us and this will be his first ever show so if you are manage to make it please say hi to him. He asked me today if we were about sorted for the show and I was about to say yes but then I proceeded in listing what I still needed to do in my reply to his message and almost needed to sit down! I know we bring it on ourselves to a certain extent in not keeping our display simple, as if there isn't enough to do with sorting out the cake samples and promotional material!
We have been meaning for the past several months to start a regular newsletter for Candytuft Cakes and this took me fair bit of trial and error before I got it right. Little did I know that you cant just make up a mailing list and send out to all recipients at once using Outlook. So this week saw our first "campaign" and newsletter #1 got sent out. I will get round to adding a link for signing up onto the Candytuft Cakes website over the next week or two but in the meantime if you want added then just drop us an email to that effect. So my next plan was to send out a short bulletin about the show aboard the SS Nomadic and for Kathryn to put a post on her facebook page. With being a photographer I am totally against using other people's work. As I wanted to include photo of the SS Nomadic I needed to get a photograph. Anyone who has been down to see the SS Nomadic or Titanic Belfast will know that there are more double yellow lines painted in the area than the rest of Northern Ireland combined it would seem. After driving about for that seemed like an eternity I eventually spied a small section of pay and display parking by the road side. I parked up just as the parking attendant arrived to check the other cars for valid tickets. 0-1hrs = £1.50! what the flip! I only want to park for 10 mins not buy the space. Now my experience of these parking attendants is not good. I even had my motorbike clamped/chained once and had to pay a release fee! So as I walked past this guy I asked if there was any chance of a 30min rate as all I want is to take a photo. This guy has restored my faith in his kind. He very kindly told me to forget about the ticket and just do what I needed. Happy days as I actually only had £1 in my pocket so I couldn't have even bought a ticket if I wanted to. I quickly grabbed my gear and jogged over to the SS Nomadic and got my shots.
Thanks
Simon
