{"id":13389,"date":"2022-12-23T17:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T17:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=13389"},"modified":"2022-12-23T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T17:16:00","slug":"so-here-it-is-merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/12\/so-here-it-is-merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"So Here It Is, Merry Christmas !"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/12\/so-here-it-is-merry-christmas\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>So that&#8217;s it &#8211; we&#8217;re finished for the year. The workshop has been locked up and will remain closed until January 3rd. All orders to December 22nd have been packed and will be posted tomorrow, although when they&#8217;ll arrive is anyone&#8217;s guess &#8211; the post is a bit of a mess in the UK right now. The website remains open, so you can place orders, but we won&#8217;t be tackling them until we return.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great Christmas everyone (and if you don&#8217;t celebrate Christmas, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll enjoy a well-earned break anyway).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phil and Tony<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13391\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/12\/so-here-it-is-merry-christmas\/merry-xmas-2022\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Merry-Xmas-2022.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" 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=\"Merry Xmas 2022\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Merry-Xmas-2022.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Merry-Xmas-2022.jpg\" alt=\"Merry Xmas 2022\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Merry-Xmas-2022.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Merry-Xmas-2022-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So that&#8217;s it &#8211; we&#8217;re finished for the year. The workshop has been locked up and will remain closed until January 3rd. All orders to December 22nd have been packed and will be posted tomorrow, although when they&#8217;ll arrive is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/12\/so-here-it-is-merry-christmas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13391,"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":"We're done for the year - the workshop will reopen on January 3rd. Merry Christmas from the Brigadiers !","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-13389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-and-general-waffle"],"views":719,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Merry-Xmas-2022.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-3tX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7287,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/12\/christmas-holidays\/","url_meta":{"origin":13389,"position":0},"title":"Christmas Holidays","author":"Tony","date":"December 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"So the sale is all over for another year - this time we've been unusually efficient with turning orders around, although there are still a few remaining that came in on Thursday and Friday for me to mop up this week. 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