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27/08/2011
Issue 58

Steve, sand and the end of summer....

Last night the Funky Fox held a beach party night. Given the recent spate of very hot weather there was a great chance of a slew of bikini clad girls. Unfortunately, in the same way that an English summer is affected by someone saying bbq or Andy Murray is on centre court, the heavens opened, the temperature plummeted and thunder and lightening crossed the sky. You could say Mr K inadvertently ushered in the end of summer and the start of the 2012 winter season.

Which segways into my next topic rather smoothly. The subject of work this winter.

Those who have followed the enquirer will know the term “work” is not in my standard vocabulary. After being turned down for a job as a ski host (funny story involving a group interview and a broken shoulder in a cast) before my first season I have spent the following 14 years financing my winters with contracts in the summer, designing websites and various IT support related tasks in the winter. Compared to chalet girls who get up at the crack of dawn and put up with annoying guests I have the relative easy life. Don’t get me wrong; trying to fill the enquirer newsletter with humorous anecdotes, dodgy spelling, bad grammar and smutty innuendo every week isn’t easy it just doesn’t involve rubber gloves, bleach and most importantly a weekly pay check. So starting this winter I have to, dare I say it, bite the bullet and look for gainful employment.

So what’s my job history in Courchevel? If you put aside all the techie things, and there’ve been a lot of them, I’ve worked in kitchens, plonged dirty dishes, shovelled snow, painted hotels, chauffeured a chalet owner around, photographed winter X-games (yes I actually got paid for that), ski guided, sold t-shirts and hoodies, organised countless events. I could go on....

But before people start offering me any job under the snow it should be noted that the prospect of spending a season as a boot fitter or dishwasher doesn’t befit my advancing years. Many positions, that in my youth I would have aspired to, now with hindsight I know better. After seeing people, eminently more capable than me, slowly crumble through the season under the endless politics and bureaucracy.

So if you think I could benefit your winter team then any suitable offers should be sent to info@courchevelenquirer.com

The editor

Courch extra Brownstock Music Festival

Jess (who some of you will know as she works for New Gen in Courchevel) runs Brownstock Music Festival on her family's farm in Essex in September. Started as a small affair - but now its a fully formed boutique festival with 4000 visitors heading down to the farm during the weekend.

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