Yurts in the snow

• Posted by simplyyurts on Sun 12 2010.
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WOW!  and we thought last christmas was bad!!

This was the scene on the very top of the South Downs today as we collected a little yurt that had been used for a birthday party last night.

“How did it go?” we asked –  peering at a three foot icicle that had completely encapsulated the knots on the ropes.

Fantastic said the birthday boy.  6 of us slpet inside and in fact with just one little electric heater it was so warm we had to open the door in the middle of the night!”

So here are the figures – 25 people, 17th birthday, 16ft yurt and minus 5 degrees.

Oh and 1 dog of course!
Perfect for parties n the middle of winter!

This year’s Model

• Posted by simplyyurts on Sat 08 2010.
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What can we say?

The forecast was bad.  Rain was promised.

And, sometimes, needs must when the rain demands.

But was there any reason for this?

That’s odd Turk.  Can’t actually see any clouds!@!  or rain for that matter.

Unveiled at last!

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You know what it’s like.

You spend all year designing something, you make the prototype, you put it up again, you tweak the design, you get it made and hire it out three or four times.  But every time you go to take a photo, what happens?

It rains, it’s dark, the sun goes in, you can’t see because of things in the way.

All very frustrating.  Until eventually along comes a day when it all goes right!

Well, yesterday was just such a day.

It was the worst site we’ve had in two or three years – bumps everywhere and a two way slope, on an open field.  Nothing fitted, the angles were wrong, and the forecast was abominable. It was hopeless. So we went to the pub.  Only to be served by an incompetent barman who sprayed us with cider!

But n day two our luck changed. The sun came out, the yurts settled, the covers fitted and a gentle breeze floated up the valley. It couldnt have been easier.

So, up with the flags and… voila… The Mongolian Arcade at last.

I do hope the boys like it back in Ulaan Baatar…

Not bad…

• Posted by simplyyurts on Mon 07 2010.
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Sometimes we come up with new stuff and the Mongolians just look at us a bit blankly like we’re from Mars – or even Europe.

It was a bit like that with our Square Gers. We thought it would be nice to re-cover our open sided canopies in something a little more in keeping with the rest of the yurts.

‘Oh really?’ they said.

They were not amused. But they did it for us nonetheless.

Then, last weekend, up they went at a wedding we did for Ali and Michael…

We sent them a couple of pictures afterwards and then waited for a message back.

It’s a bit like waiting for pictures to come back from developers (if you’re old enough to remember that!)

‘Yes,’ they said.

‘Not bad’ they said. ’Not bad at all’

Wow… Praise indeed!

Where have we been?

• Posted by simplyyurts on Fri 06 2010.
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I don’t know. This year has been rattling by and suddenly we’ redoing events for the summer solstice!  The last post we did had snow in it!!

So where are our witty little posts, and the new pictures of our great events?

Well, the answer is we’ve been building our new holiday park in Gloucester.  All that an keeping up with all the yurt events.

This week we finished the chicken coop n Gloucester, did a 50th birthday in an ancient monument in Cambridge, a fabulous wedding in King Lynn, a romantic hideaway for a 40th birthday in Sussex and a Union headquarters week long workshop event in Oxfordshire.

So why aren’t we posting much?  I think you already know the answer.  tha and the fact that our lovely camera has been in for repairs for two months!!

What!

Normal service will be resumed soon!

Happy New Yurt

• Posted by simplyyurts on Fri 01 2010.
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The Mightey Mikey

• Posted by simplyyurts on Mon 11 2009.
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Any marquee company can only ever be as good as the guy who looks after the repairs!

So, here he is, the Mightey Mikey O’brien who runs (more…)

In with the New

• Posted by simplyyurts on Tue 11 2009.
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What a terrible weekend to try something new!

When every other self respecting marquee company has shut up shop and gone off to India for a couple of months, there we were slogging around on top of a hill in the heart of Oxfordshire in a force 8 gale (more…)

Tarum tarrra!!!!

• Posted by simplyyurts on Sun 10 2009.
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Is that how you spell it??  Anyway, big fanfare.

After a year of planning and lots of chatting, a ton of keyboard bashing and endless deliberations over fonts and logos and colours and pictures and … well I’m sure you can imagine – here it is…

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