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  Posted by Milimops (U14300889) on Monday, 8th March 2010

  This posting is not about any current SL rather I am hoping to get answers to a few questions that have been niggling at me for quite some time and often keep me awake at night. Not all night you understand (I am sad, but not that sad) but I feel the time has come to get the answers and have this niggling stop, once and for all, after all my touch 茅clat has run out and the bags are beginning to show.
  
  All answers/opinions gratefully received.
  
  Lizzie and Nigel run Lower Loxley, conference and events venue extraordinaire, between them and presumably divee up jobs where appropriate. He doing those he thinks are fun and mostly outdoors (wine/birds of prey etc etc.) and she doing all the 鈥渋mportant鈥� client liaising bits.
  
  But, at any events venue of size there鈥檚 just so much to do and at LL there鈥檚 no sign of any staff (Kathy/Titcombe/Mrs P as was and Hayley excluded) and I worry that something will get overlooked at the vital moment because Lizzie and Nigel are just too too busy and spreading themselves too thinly.
  
  These are the bugging bits that I want answers to...
  
  LL is a venue for conferences and various events but have no conference or events manager. So in theory then they (being L&N) plan and manage every event from showing prospective delegates around, following up a visit, preparing quotes, negotiating costs, ordering essential function equipment ( I am thinking here about A/V equipment, screens, PA sytems)to being on hand to troubleshoot in the days leading up to the event. This is only in the case of one event. What if they have one after the other?
  
  And that鈥檚 just business day events. Who coordinates the weddings? Who shows bride and grooms around? Attends the countless Wedding Fairs? Is on hand every day to field calls from panicking bridezillas worried that their table plan won鈥檛 fit or the menus need changing or Aunty Pam鈥檚 now bringing her new vegan boyfriend?
  
  Who staffs and mans these events? Surely they don鈥檛 thrown the delegates into the conference room and say 鈥渉elp yourself to teas and coffees, any problems we鈥檒l be in the woodland walk/vineyard/shop if you need anything鈥�. Who is the license holder? Who runs the bar? Who, for the love of god is the fire warden or the nominated first aider?
  
  Do they have a website and does this mean that Lizzie manages that too? Who drums up new business? Sorts listings in events publications? Sorts PR, advertising and marketing?
  
  Does Mrs P as was do all the conference catering? Order in all the supplies? Does she plan menus and the 拢5.50 a head buffet? Does she do all the washing up post event? All of the tidying, pick all the fag ends out the loos?
  
  Who keeps an eye on the financials? Chases payment of invoices? Pays suppliers?
  
  So much to do, so little time in the day.
  

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  Posted by bob larkin (U2297537) on Monday, 8th March 2010

  millimps
  
  You are a spoilsport.
  
  The simple answer is that the conference centre fairies help out.
  
  More realistically Owen used to be the chef at the cafeteria and Jessica looked after the birds of prey, I think. Doesn't Lewis run the art gallery?
  
  Otherwise I can't think of anybody apart from those you mention (The Titcombes, Kathy and her successor).
  
  IRL places like that do seem to have a lot of staff both part time and full time.
  
  bob

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  Posted by RosieT (U2224719) on Monday, 8th March 2010

  have no conference or events manager.聽 Lizzie sacked Beverley, the manager she had when on Maternity leave, and employed hayley as a nanny, because it was cheaper, and Elizabeth wanted to do all the managing herself. Who staffs and mans these events?聽 They employ "our usual caterers" as Lizzo calls them, foe all events, and Liz or Nigel do the meetin'n'greetin'. Do they have a website and does this mean that Lizzie manages that too?聽 Liz has mentioned, "I'll put it on the website," about stuff, so they have one, and she runs it. Does Mrs P as was do all the conference catering?聽 No, they have outside caterers (Julia upset them on the Only Time She Was Left In Charge, by pfaffing about and they almost cancelled their agreement - apparently Lizzie had to "grovel" to them).
  
  She is possibly the Best Businesswoman Ever, and does all the other things she is too mean to pay others to do.
  
  Believable, no?

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  Posted by mike (U14258103) on Tuesday, 9th March 2010

  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:03 GMT, in reply to RosieT in message 3
  
  I refer the reader to a previous answer by Keri Davies, who when challenged that Titcombe couldn't possibly be the only gardener, replied: no, of course he isn't and revealed that there were several other silent (and previously unmentioned gardeners). The secret of Lower Loxley is that for an establishment of its size it has just the number of staff that you would expect ... it's just too tedious to go around naming and mentioning them all (particularly because pedantic posters will keep asking questions like is Archie the waiter a replacement for Bertie or has he been employed in addition to Archie to meet the Summer rush and the production team will tie themselves in the usual knots trying to remember and answer these questions?)
  
  [there is only one Declan, Ross and Auntie Hilda]

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  Posted by RosieT (U2224719) on Tuesday, 9th March 2010

  Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:07 GMT, in reply to mike in message 4
  
  Pshaw

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  Posted by Milimops (U14300889) on Tuesday, 9th March 2010

  Thank you for all replies. Tis the little details that bother me.
  
  I really do think it's about time I got a life. Or watched Eastenders or something instead, but I just can't help myself.
  
  

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