Some Advice

OK, I'd like to give some advice based on a scenario I found myself in last night and to anyone who may try to do this and get away with it in future on my site.

It states quite clearly in the welcome pack you are given, by the lovely receptionists (Nope, they didn't pay me to say that about them. I value all the staff there, with no exceptions. . .), when you arrive that open fires and fires/barbeque's of any description (other than charcoal) are strictly not allowed.

I'd appreciate it if you didn't do any of the following when I ask you to put it out:

• Pretend you haven't seen me standing next to your barbeque. I'm wearing a hi-visibility jacket, how difficult is it not to see me?
• When I ask you to extinguish the fire, the correct answer is not, "We're just going to let it burn out."
• When I politely remind you that you've been spoken to on several occasions about putting wood on the fire, don't tell me you haven't. I was there, I know what was said.
• Don't question why I am standing there after you have said you'd put the fire out and then not move. I'm waiting for you to walk across to the tap to fill up a bottle of water to put it out.
  

One group did everything above last night when I spoke to them. Let's hope they didn't lie to Alex when he went round to speak to them this morning.

On a side note, I haven't seen the receptionist that Archie reckons has a fancy for me lately. I hope she hasn't left the company, before I got to know her. I also noticed, when I was in the office this morning, that there was a new receptionist being trained. I don't want to say too much about her at present, but we'll see how things pan out.

That's all for today, back in tonight to see what joys await me.

The Calm before the Storm

Friday was unusually quiet this week. Only three taxis came back from the town and all the punters were quiet. I suppose this was helped, somewhat, by the recent rain we've been having. Other than that it was very quiet for a Friday night, has the tourist season really been and gone and we've not noticed it? Things will pick up in about a fortnights time when the area plays host to a large scale event. I'm hoping for one or two little blog snippets when the time comes.

Saturday night was rather quiet also. Archie did manage to put in one report, about a small group of males who came back late on in the evening (I suppose that should be, early on in the morning.) and they were fairly arrogant to me when I passed them at the gate.

Another group of three males came back prior to that and one of them decided to urinate against the fence next to the public footpath. I did my best trying to gain his attention, by shouting at him. It wasn't until I was stood less than six foot away from him shining my torch at him, that I managed to attract his attention. I reminded him that there was a toilet block a few hundred yards away from him, and as he was heading in that direction anyway, he could use that. Nevertheless, he decided to finish what he was doing and walk off. I radioed Archie and gave him a description of the group and asked him to find out which tent they were heading to. Later in the morning, as I was checking the grounds, I checked their ticket and it had the 19th August written on it, so I didn't bother submitting a report about them.

It's Sunday evening, as I write this entry, and judging by the current weather conditions, it looks like it'll be a busy night. The sky is almost entirely blue, with only a wisp of a cloud every now and then. I doubt that there won't be a few late night drinkers and fires on the site tonight.

We shall see.