Tuesday 10 November 2009

I told you I'd tell you

The Very Exciting Idea I had the other day is a way of raising money to make écovallée even more fabulously eco.

It's called: "YURTOPOLY".

As might be expected from the name, it's a Game/Prize Draw/Thing where players pay €2 for the chance of winning a week in écovallée in July 2010. Having investigated it a little further, it might well be illegal.

But the possibility of super-eco-luxury having raised it's beautiful head again (rather than the less glamourous although less expensive and therefore open to more People Like Us alternative), I carried on thinking.

And my think went like this: What we're doing here, fighting the French system to open a sustainable, forward-looking etc etc business, is a bit like cycling from John O' Groats to Land's End and back again - several times - only more demanding. And people get sponsored to do that kind of thing. Which is how "FRIENDS OF ECOVALLEE" came to be.

It would cost €10 to become a Friend; for €50 you could become a Good Friend (and have a free massage when you're here); for €100 you could become a Great Friend (and get two nights free when you book a week); and for more than that you could become a Soulmate and enjoy our unending love and appreciation (two people have already done this).

My question to you is: What do you think? All comments welcome.

2 comments:

Me again said...

If we donate, do we get a little wooden plaque with our names on put up somewhere? For lower denominations, on the side of the latrine. For gold plated donations, on the hammock tree?

the devolutionary said...

Latrine I like. Only should it be La Trine, or Les Trines? I'm undecided. Oh, I haven't answered the question.