Service Update

So… the centrifuge has been back in service for a couple of weeks and all is well again – in fact it’s running better than before. The old motor had been imperceptibly slowing down for a while before it finally gave out, so having the refurbished one running at full speed again is making casting much easier. As far as orders go, we had a post run this morning and have managed to ship everything up to December 14th – this just leaves a handful of sale orders from the last day and a few that have come in since the end of the sale. All being well we hope to finish those tomorrow and post them on Saturday. In theory this means that all UK orders should reach their destination in time for Christmas, although given the vagaries of the postal service at this time of year, who knows.

We’ll be in the workshop on Monday to finish off any orders that arrive over the weekend, and then the workshop will be closed until the New Year. The website will remain open and you’ll be able to place orders during the week between Christmas and New Year, but we won’t we processing them until we get back on January 2nd.

Canada Post have ended their strike but apparently are still not accepting any new items, so Royal Mail in turn have not resumed services to Canada. So we’re continuing to hang on to Canadian orders and we’ll post them at the first opportunity.

The workshop is on a farm in an old shed off the farmyard. This time of year the local wildlife (well, the farm rodents) start migrating indoors in search of food. They’ve taken a particular liking to the packing peanuts which we use to fill orders and stop things rattling about. We no longer use polystyrene chips, instead we have these eco-friendly ones which are made from corn starch and dissolve in water or can be put in your food waste. They probably aren’t particularly nutritious, but the mice eat them anyway. I went into the workshop yesterday to find that they’d gnawed their way into someone’s order and eaten all of the packing ! So this obviously had to be opened and completely repacked, including binning all of the plastic bags and paperwork and replacing those with fresh ones. The farm cat will be working overtime this winter…