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Post by Lady Catharine on Aug 8, 2011 18:03:02 GMT -5
I have yet to stay till the end for Pub Sing. By the time I drive home it's dark. SO if the TPTB read this, consider changing it back to 11-7pm. I 've witnessed quite a few leaving the faire around 7'ish.. Just thinking ahead. Gramercy!!!
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Post by Athena on Aug 8, 2011 18:47:01 GMT -5
I agree! Some of us have a long drive drive home, and the 8pm hour is just too late. Especially Sunday, when so many have to work the next morning. I hear that attendance @ pub sing has been light this year, and I haven't been to one, either, which is a bummer. It's always been one of the highlights of GLMF for me.
I'm hoping these new hours were on a trial basis and management will consider going back to the 7pm closing time for next year.
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Post by grouser on Aug 8, 2011 19:09:18 GMT -5
Well, I was only out there for two days over two weekends but if they're looking for feedback, I can say this: we went home about 6:30 the first time (there was a sun burn involved there but even with out it I don't think we would have gone much longer) and we left shortly after 7 the second time. Neither time was there any serious consideration given to staying until close. We were just drained by 7. Both days we arrived before opening gate.
As far as meals go (which I'm led to believe was part of the thinking around these new hours), I planned mine roughly around noon and five (fairly normal for me) while the younger ones just grazed as they went.
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Post by blueguy on Aug 9, 2011 15:35:57 GMT -5
I don't mind the hours as they stand. I won't be terribly upset if next year stays at 8 or moves to 7. I know where my car is and I know that normally I can leave whenever. (exception last week when they parked me into a tree and slipped a car behind me.). PUB SING (for the record) has had low turn out for 3 seasons which correlates to lack of pub. Plus it's not a hat passing show so nobody is being hurt by attendance. I guess what I really care about is that the gates open at all. Beyond that, i'll exit them as I need.
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Post by grouser on Aug 9, 2011 16:14:09 GMT -5
I suppose I should note that I tend to be up at 4am even on the days I don't have to work and it's a bit over an hours drive to the faire from my house - hour and a half if I'm taking my sister/nieces as I did.
I was just throwing my experience out there. It doesn't really matter to me, though. I'm not a season pass holder this year nor do I anticipate getting one next year (expecting to relocate this winter - unconfirmed at this point, though).
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Post by Sir Trevor on Aug 9, 2011 17:00:32 GMT -5
Well, I hope you return at least once next season. As for me, I think 11-7 works better. I know I can leave any time I want. But I am friends with a lot of vendors, and cast. They can't leave until close. (actually, after close). And this season has been rough for some of them. Especially those that have to do things like drive back to Pittsburgh Sunday night, and be up in the morning for work the next morning.
That, and it is just so sad to see the lanes that empty at the end of the day.
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Post by Lady Catharine on Aug 9, 2011 17:28:35 GMT -5
It makes for a very long day-vendors & cast.
V-e-r-y-...L-o-n-g...
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Aug 10, 2011 6:28:14 GMT -5
I have to agree with Trevor. I just don't think this 8:00Pm nonsense is working for anyone. I have spoken to quite a number of people, vendors, patrons, cast, performers, you name it, (remember, a great number of them stay at my place.) and most all agree it makes for a very long day, especially on Sunday when a lot of them do have a long drive home. Speaking for myself, as a patron I have the advantage that I can come and go when I please, and I've been leaving between 5:00 and 7:00Pm as a rule. 8:00PM is just too late for me. I've been up since 6:00Am, went to the Y and put in a two hour workout, came back home and got ready for faire, walked that place from end to end countless times through out the day catching various shows, so by 7:00 I'm pretty much faired out. And I still have to get home, let the dogs out, get the fire pit and grill ready for when the rest of the gang shows up at around 9:00PM, by the time they say their goodbyes, walk out to their car and drive to my place, it's that late. I may stay for pub sing this Sunday, just so I can do the Health to the Company thing with glasses raised on high, since the way folks have been having the bad habit of dying off here lately, as the line goes; "We may or might never all meet here again." So! Be careful, and take better care of yous self's, cuz I'm getting tired of going to funerals. And to those friends who did not make this years GLMF. R.I.P. HANK.
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Post by Capt. Morgan on Aug 10, 2011 8:22:22 GMT -5
Agreed! 11AM allows me to get some things done in the morning, get ready for Faire and get there at least by 11:30 or noon. Given the weather we’ve had this run, let’s fact it…there were times at 3-4PM you could’ve stuck a fork in me because I was “done”. 8PM? That gets me home by 9PM and I won’t even tell you how ticked off the cats are to have dinner then! LOL! No way! I haven’t stayed for a Pub Sing to date but, as Hank pointed out given the uncertainty of the passing of 365 days, Dwyn and I will try to hang on for Sunday given it is the last day and all that encompasses….saying “Safe Journey” to some of my Faire family that I won’t see for a whole year… *sniff, sniff* Okay…won’t think about that now.
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Post by Lady Catharine on Aug 10, 2011 11:09:27 GMT -5
I plan to stay for this Finale... Hug/Kiss ..till the next event, be at Trinity and the Masonic Home in Medina, and a visit in Sep to Middlefield.. Say La Vie till 2012...
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Post by Sir Trevor on Aug 10, 2011 19:04:49 GMT -5
I plan on doing pub sing both days. A lot of friends will be gone after Saturday, so I want to say my farewells to them also. And if the weather forcasts are correct, looks like Sunday might be kinda wet. (I know there is a chance of rain for Saturday also, but Sunday looks more imminent) So Saturday, may turn out to be the big Pub Sing day. Kind of like a few years ago, when Saturday was beautiful, and Sunday turned to crap.
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Post by blueguy on Aug 10, 2011 20:59:37 GMT -5
Nobody needs apologize for their own issues with time and schedule. But the long day thing really doesn't cut it with me. It's 9 hours of open time (and probably another 2 set up and close). My 87 year old grandfather does more than that 7 days a week. Of course he's a robust workhorse that I hardly keep up with. The job is what it is, you earn on two days work and 5 days effort behind that if you work faire.
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Post by Olive on Aug 10, 2011 22:05:49 GMT -5
We've been calling 7pm to 8 pm "Vendors Visting Hour" on Fairy Dust Lane, because that is about all that happens then.
I say, if a vendor can't make his money from 11 to 7, he surely won't make it from 7 to 8. Pretty dark by the time it's all cleaned up, packed up, and put away at the Cottage.
But still I'm so grateful to Larry for the opportunity to do what we do in his beautiful Avaloch. But I can well do without that last hour.
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Post by countessofmidnight on Aug 12, 2011 12:53:53 GMT -5
It makes for a very long day-vendors & cast. V-e-r-y-...L-o-n-g... I would prefer that it was ended at 7:00 like it used to be. Now that I'm part of the entertainment as a member of THE RAIDERS OF THE NORTH SHORE pirate encampment we can't close up till after the Finale In Song,---and we can't bring our cars into the lanes until 8:30 that makes it about 10:00 or later when I get home... Then,---it's take out the animalls and flop down on the couch exhausted !... THAT EXTRA HOUR makes for a very long day. AND,---it will be even longer than EVER this weekend since we have to break up camp for the season TOO !!!
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Post by Lady Catharine on Aug 12, 2011 15:05:31 GMT -5
With any luck, all the comments have be viewed..
**shrugs shoulders***
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