Sawday's on Tour
Just back from three days in Wales, much of the time spent with the whole company on a mass bonding exercise. We swam, walked, talked, ate as if starving and danced the last night away in wild ceilidh excesses. The venue was the Druidstone Hotel, a triumph of laid-back professionalism. It is rarely empty, breaks most of the rules on 'how to run a hotel', fills itself with fun, music and people wanting to be unpretentiously human. When we arrived there was a 20-piece jazz band filling the space with an exultant clamour. But back to our own gathering: the best bit, in my view, was the ceildih. It put a grin on every face and held it there for hours. How else can one achieve that? In fact, I wonder if ceildihs might take the place of the corporate consultants who change the ways companies work?
posted by Alastair @ 9:19 am
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Thank you for the lovely comments - Druidstone is thriving and wasawarded the Waitrose/Observer best sited restaurant in Wales three weeks ago. Richard Hammond's "ecoescape" entry is lovely too. Can you thank him from us. More power to the elboxzw of your excellant guides. love Jane (the returned of miscellaneous articles of clothing!)
You sound like a load of self indulgent narcissists to me, I cant think of anything more gut-turning than spending 3 days watching a bunch of self important publishing nobodies.
"Bonding over ceilidh". How very chi-chi and nouveau, darling. Get real. Don’t you ever think about not spending so much money on your over inflated pomposity ego driven nonsense? Why not donate the money you spent on this excess "look at me I’m so great" away-days to something more worthwhile.
The irony of you waffling on about the G8 and greed is classic
I agree with Anonymous. All this do-gooding is definitely a bad thing. Spending money on anything that offends PC matters of taste should be dealt with most severerly.
While where at it let's cancel Christmas, think of all the money donated to useful causes and we could put any money-grabbing free spirited enterprise out of work at the same time. Birthdays? A waste of time, sentimental, commercialised. Holidays? what's wrong with staying at home in my flat? Friends, why have them? Family, to much hassle.... better stay at home and write miserable emails about people who have sickeningly gone out and organised something fun and not invited me.
I agree with the first anonymous post. The second one needs a course on diction and grammar, although is mildly amusing.
For what its worth, I think your guides are good, but not great. You have succumbed to the filthy lucre and obviously need to feed your over inflated ego with creaming off the profits for this pointless bonding nonsense. The guides are written in such a way that one is led to believe each entry is there on merit, not on how big the cheque is or how "in" the owners might be with Mr Sawdays chi chi set.
Anonymous 3 - I am shocked that you think that entries in the guide are there because of the size of their cheque or how "in" they are with the publishers.
My holiday home is included in the French Holiday Homes guide, and I can vouch that we had to jump through hoops to be included. We had a very thorough inspection visit which took nearly 3 hours, and although we do have to pay to be included in the book and website, the cost is minimal, no more expensive than other major online rental listing sites which feature thousands of properties, none of which have been inspected. I do not know Mr Sawday, nor any of his "chi chi" set. However, I do know of at least one person who applied to be in the guide, and who has a very nice property, yet it was still rejected after the inspection.
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