It turns out I'm a lying bastard. So sue me!
Here goes for that promised big update...
Things that have happened recently including Wolsey's closing for a refit for a few days. It meant I managed to stay out of the pub all week including a Monday night sat at home seeing all these programmes on television that I didn't realise existed. My first free Monday night in years except when I was ill. Turns out I was missing nothing. The programmes were all shit.
Before the refit though the big news was that we (Wolsey's) organised an auction to sell off a lot of the bar memorabilia and to raise some money for charity. I wasn't sure how it would go but it worked far better that any of us could have thought possible. We raised over £3,000,which considering there was almost no external advertising prior to the event was a phenomenal effort. I was auctioneer for the event, and I was amazed at just how much people were getting into it. The three big items, the tractor stools, the old film posters, and the picture of Kirsty (one of Wolsey's barmaids) recreating that Athena tennis player pose had the crowd oohing and ahhing with each new bid when it got to the serious money. £290 for the picture of Kirsty. I reckon the guy who bought that was going to have a lot of explaining to do the next day to his wife, girlfriend or bank manager!
After all that I was determined that bar wasn't going to piss away the opportunity of some publicity for this, so told Simon and Steven that I would draw up a press release for them to send to local media outlets. It was pretty good for a first time effort (I know self praise really is no praise at all, but cut me a little slack, I've been learning loads of new stuff like this recently, and I'm all proud of myself for it. Yay, go me! Anyway I still haven't seen the promised write up in the Spectator (local paper), so it remains to be seen whether it will have worked.
Okay gotta go now, will post again soon. I promise, no really I do promise this time. I'm not shit you know...
Things that have happened recently including Wolsey's closing for a refit for a few days. It meant I managed to stay out of the pub all week including a Monday night sat at home seeing all these programmes on television that I didn't realise existed. My first free Monday night in years except when I was ill. Turns out I was missing nothing. The programmes were all shit.
Before the refit though the big news was that we (Wolsey's) organised an auction to sell off a lot of the bar memorabilia and to raise some money for charity. I wasn't sure how it would go but it worked far better that any of us could have thought possible. We raised over £3,000,which considering there was almost no external advertising prior to the event was a phenomenal effort. I was auctioneer for the event, and I was amazed at just how much people were getting into it. The three big items, the tractor stools, the old film posters, and the picture of Kirsty (one of Wolsey's barmaids) recreating that Athena tennis player pose had the crowd oohing and ahhing with each new bid when it got to the serious money. £290 for the picture of Kirsty. I reckon the guy who bought that was going to have a lot of explaining to do the next day to his wife, girlfriend or bank manager!
After all that I was determined that bar wasn't going to piss away the opportunity of some publicity for this, so told Simon and Steven that I would draw up a press release for them to send to local media outlets. It was pretty good for a first time effort (I know self praise really is no praise at all, but cut me a little slack, I've been learning loads of new stuff like this recently, and I'm all proud of myself for it. Yay, go me! Anyway I still haven't seen the promised write up in the Spectator (local paper), so it remains to be seen whether it will have worked.
Okay gotta go now, will post again soon. I promise, no really I do promise this time. I'm not shit you know...
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