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It is a real shame, but may well be the sensible answer.
I was partly involved in helping someone set up a childrens indoor play scheme. Best intentions and all that, but a slightly over-exuberant business plan.
after 2 years, they've gone down owing £500K.
best to get the sums and the what-if's? right up front.
Sorry I haven't been around - I have been busy trying to keep my head above water
I have gone from 7 employees to 1
Made staff redundant & laid off
The credit crunch has hit childcare very hard & it has been a nightmare summer (with family illness & deaths too)
I'm not quite sure how to take 'scathingly brilliant'.......or the implication that I only come when I need help
Things are stabilising a bit now.....I have money coming in = money going out & due to the credit crunch I had a brief spell working in the local planning office (what an eyeopener - gulp)
But I think (sadly) the nursery is off for the foreseeable future
I will still occasionally lurk - but I started an OU course so I am quite busy
Please don't take my comments the wrong way katymac. I've come round to the idea that this forum isn't really a chat room. It's a place where people discuss green BUILDING above all else. The 'scathingly brilliant' phrase comes from a movie I saw as a kid - about a girl who -eventually - became a nun (funnily enough I saw it at a girls boarding school, run by. . . .nuns. . . . even back then I thought it was a little suspicious. . . .)
I just meant, that when you next get a project you would return to the site in full force, in the mean time - as you have pointed out yourself - you'll be busy doing other things.
Incidentially, I haven't heard anything from Arthur recently - he was the train expert. . . . . .
Katymac. I also add my commiserations about the nursery.
I've got 2 kids - aged 4 and 3 now. Last year every nursery was full up and people were fighting over the best ones.
Since september I've had one child in school. I used to split the kids time between 2 nurseries. Now my youngest spends all his time at one.
This is because, over the summer one nursery made redundant their experienced teacher - which my son liked. They also had far less children, so the atmosphere was lost. He no longer enjoyed it.
Fortunately he was already going to the other nursery, so he just goes there twice as often - 4 afternoons a week.
To sum up. I think kids go in cycles, one year you get loads, and then the next year, hardly any at all.
Unfortunately I think 2 or 3 cycles all hit a low at the same time for me
My Hubby has been in & out of Papworth all summer so I haven't really concentrated on anything elase (in between the family funerals) which meant the implications for my current business were disastrous
Never mind - onwards & upwards (as they say)
I must grow very slowly to achieve my previous levels - otherwise I could go belly up (totally)
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