Yawn Yawn, Wakey Wakey...!!!! MK8...

Good morning all my friends how are we all to day feeling good I trust,its raining here and quite dark but the rain is most welcome,enjoy your day and put on your best smile,and please stay safe

Royal William in the rain this morning

 

Hi Kandy I wish I had Dublin Bay any chance of a photo my friend ,I have heard its a lovely climber, have a good day

 

Aloha everyone,

Woo, lovely photo of a lovely rose

Kandy, yes, they can do what they like with prices exactly the same as any shop can charge what they like for a product.

It's not an uncommon practice as, with some salons, it's the only way they can survive. Unfortunately, running a salon is very difficult becuase most of the trade is done at the weekend. so during the week the staff sit around doing nothing for a lot of the time. The wages and overheads still have to be paid although they're not doing much work.

Therefore, on a Saturday, when they find that they have more customers than they can cope with, they put their prices up to try and bring in more money. This has the chance of two effects. One is to get the extra money and the other is to encourage people to come in during the week when it is quieter.

A good example, in hairdressing, used to be in the barber shops. In the old days, most men worked Mon-Fri so went to get their hair cut in a Saturday. So the barber shops used to be crowded (at my place on a Saturday, even in the mid to late 1980's, the men used to queue through the shop and out the door all day long) and most salons wouldn't do children or would charge them the same price as the men.

In the tourism industry it works the same way. The tour operators and airlines do over two thirds of their annual business during the summer holidays, Christmas and Easter. So 70% of their customers book for only 20% of the year. Most of the year they are running at a loss and have to make it up during the peak times. That's why so many of them have been going bust! The same happens with hotels, guest houses and B&B's in this country. They have 'Peak Period' prices.

It would be better if the salon did have their different prices shown but in some salons they not only have different prices at the weekend but different charges for different stylists. If you look closely at their price list you will almost certainly see that before the price is the word 'from' . That is the standard practice and covers all situations. It happens in lots of different types of business and shows what the lowest price is. (Car wash from .... etc)

I used to have the same price throughout the salons and throughout my staff. The only difference was that, in the barbers, we did not cut boys hair on a Saturday. That was for two reasons, the first was because we needed the time for the men and the second was that, with so many men in the salon, the conversation wasn't always suitable for young kids.

Still dry outside but we had a little bit of light rain last night. Not enough for me to turn the sprinkler off!

My car goes in for a service today , my shower has packed up and the greenhouse glass is trying to slide out of the roof . The roof glass panels are 6' x 2' 6" each. the wood on the greenhouse is begining to rot (more than just begining in some places) and the small clips that stop the panes from sliding out are coming out of the rotten wood! I've bought some wood hardener but can't use it now that we had that bit of drizzle unless the sun comes out the lift the dampness out of the wood. A friend is coming round today to give me a hand as we're going to try and put in new clips (if they'll hold) and it's a two man job. We need to slide the glass panels back up in their channels (not easy as the wood has warped over the last 37 years) and then one person needs to hold in place whilst the other screws the clips in.

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Good morning all my friends on this next to last day of June,doesn't time fly just like an Owl hope you are all OK and feeling good,its overcast here but dry so that's a bonus,enjoy your day and please stay safe

6am Sunrise

 

Aloha everyone,

The very light drizzle continued, on and off, throughout the day yesterday but it was quite warm and muggy. We weren't able to do the job on the greenhouse because of it. There are 16 panes of the 6ft glass in the roof and it will take a long time!

I was able to wander round the garden taking photos as it wasn't raining enough to bother the camera. The dampness seem to bring out the tones in the flowers and the air was full of their scents.

Mrs Shiney has got a craft and plant stall at someones open garden this weekend. They open with 30 others in the town in aid of the local hospice. I think we raise more money at our open garden than the 30 do together! I may pop over and give her a hand (but not the right one as I'm having trouble with my wrist at the moment .

Loli, you'll just have to bring the labels (and plants) along next year

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Good morning all my friends on this yet another bonus of a June day(I am not going to say anything about it being the last day)its beautiful out here as I am sitting in my garden ,the sun is shining there is a blue sky overhead and the birds are singing have a great day and please stay safe my friends

 

Aloha everyone,

I spent five hours, hot, working on the greenhouse. Unfortunately it's getting old and falling apart (sounds like someone I know ) and it's a battle to keep it going. I scraped half a bucket of moss and fungus off the wood and from between the glass and the wood. Then we screwed plastic stoppers into the rotten wood to stop the glass sliding further down the roof. If the wood under the glass, where the moss was keeping it wet and making it rot, has dried properly in today's sun I shall soak it in wood hardener and hope that will give it a few extra years. I then started work on repairing the gutters.

I was still working on the gutters when Mrs Shiney came home at 6 p.m. with two friends and said they were staying for dinner. What dinner? I finished off the gutters, had a shower and had a three course dinner ready by 8 p.m.

Mowing and weeding today.

Keep well and have a great day