Do us a favour, fill out this survey!

Guys, all you followers and viewers out there, before we enact this grand plan of ours, it would be really helpful if as many of you as possible could fill out the survey we created, found (i hope) via the link below. This is totally confidential, we don't need any personal details from you, just some general questions about your feelings on launderettes etc. So please, take 3 minutes to answer these 10 questions, and then send the link to friends/ family/ enemies, we don't really mind. Thanks as always, The @TheWell team! x

<a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WBFRL2L">Click here to take survey</a>

Hands on

Cassie and Ellen are taking a very hands on approach to @TheWell, while we do have professional electricians, builders, plumbers and plasterers (mostly at mates rates, thank you all) we need to save all the pennies we can, and that may mean getting stuck in. Cassie the other day assisted our plumber in pulling all the old plaster off one wall, back to the bare stone wall (which might or might not be kept), and here's Ellen measuring up for some structural change (She maybe a structural engineer folks, but recheck the measurements!)

One day I shall provide you a photo of the pair of them at work in their customised women's working hats!
This is the very dodgy ceiling being held up with some...well essentially chopsticks. This is what Ellen is standing beneath in the previous photo. Scary stuff.

What is in the name? Well....

A number of you may be wondering what the name "@TheWell" is all about. Well the @, is all about the fact that we will provide internet services (and computers). "The Well" we hope brings up connotations of many things, look it up in the dictionary it is pretty extensive. Notably it is one of the few places where it is traditional to get a drink

 and do your laundry

in the same spot.

As well as this you might also get the ideas of achievement (doing well), well being, a proper job (clothes well clean), a sense of friendship (knowing someone well) and well...thats all I can think of really....anyway we thought it was well worth doing, coming up with a name that we felt well suited our concept and style. Well that is all I have on Well, let hope all's well that ends well.

Directors overload

We went to our accountant on Friday, and went through how we would divide up the portions of the business between us, we left it with him to sort out, and we have just received an email that says, all four of us, Mum, Ellen, Cassie and I (Lily) have been made company directors in error. So, even though it may be very short term, from today I can say that I'm a director of the company: At The Well (the @ sign was not permitted for our official name, though can be used on our sign etc).

Tweet!

Guys I know I said you could follow us on twitter on my last post, but we've done a little rearranging. you can now find us, I hope, at _AtTheWell, so follow us and tweet us your responses. Ellen met with 3 guys down at 145 yesterday, discussing some beam or other that has to go in, seems a little dull? A beam means structurally sound, means we can get electrician, means we can plaster, means we can open shop, so to use the now rather cliched tagline of a shop I'm boycotting: every little helps.

More and more each day

We now have a business email, if you want to contact us, feel free, at info@at-the-well.co.uk, also you can now follow us on twitter! search for latherandfroth, this was Ellen and Cassie's handiwork on monday.  Yesterday (Tuesday) Cassie and I went to talk business banking with many banks, and went to PC word to consider what hardware we want for the internet side of our cafe, all is fun a productive.