{"id":12868,"date":"2022-03-15T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=12868"},"modified":"2022-12-20T13:29:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T13:29:51","slug":"turn-it-on-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/03\/turn-it-on-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn It On Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/03\/turn-it-on-again\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>This COVID nonsense can really get lost, I&#8217;ve had enough now. I&#8217;ve stopped feeling ill, fatigue now seems to be a more of an issue, along with a touch of vertigo. I made a brief jaunt to the workshop at the end of last week, mainly to empty the car (<em>still<\/em> loaded with everything from the abortive Hammerhead trip). I did manage to finish up a few orders and they, along with the ones that were still left unsent from last week, have made it to the post office. This includes all orders bound for the EU, which have been shipped off to the distribution centre.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I cleared the last of the orders that had been hanging around for a week or more, so they&#8217;re being posted today. So, still with a slight degree of trepidation, we can declare ourselves open for business again. The website has been switched back on and is ready for new orders.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12870\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/03\/turn-it-on-again\/go\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Go.png\" data-orig-size=\"500,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Go\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Go.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Go.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Go.png 500w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Go-144x144.png 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All being well, we can get our new releases back on track too &#8211; there are spaceships, some cracking German buildings and more 15mm Hammer&#8217;s Slammers lined up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This COVID nonsense can really get lost, I&#8217;ve had enough now. I&#8217;ve stopped feeling ill, fatigue now seems to be a more of an issue, along with a touch of vertigo. I made a brief jaunt to the workshop at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/03\/turn-it-on-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"I've switched the website back on and we're open for orders again","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-and-general-waffle"],"views":1235,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Go.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-3ly","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7264,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/12\/ten-sale-days-remaining\/","url_meta":{"origin":12868,"position":0},"title":"Ten Sale Days Remaining","author":"Tony","date":"December 6, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Christmas sale is merrily sailing along (excuse the pun), and I'm going up to the local post office almost daily with piles of orders to be dispatched. 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Apparently when our new router was installed earlier in the year, the engineer left the cable to the old one unterminated, which was causing lots of noise on the system and affecting the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;15mm SF&quot;","block_context":{"text":"15mm SF","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/15mm-sf\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_20171203_194030-800x600.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_20171203_194030-800x600.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_20171203_194030-800x600.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_20171203_194030-800x600.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3589,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2014\/03\/salute-pre-orders\/","url_meta":{"origin":12868,"position":3},"title":"Salute Pre-orders","author":"Tony","date":"March 27, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Salute is now looming large ahead of us - it's just over two weeks away, which is scarily close. 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