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Our sale is over for this year – thank you all for your orders, large and small. As always, there has been a small rush of last-minute ones, so now begins the hard work of getting them all cast, packed and sent out before the Christmas break. We’ve tried hard to keep up with orders as we’ve gone along but we can never keep up, so the next ten days is our chance to clear the backlog.<\/p>\n

We’re hoping that we might even squeeze in a new release before Christmas, let’s see how we get on…<\/p>\n

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Our sale is over for this year – thank you all for your orders, large and small. As always, there has been a small rush of last-minute ones, so now begins the hard work of getting them all cast, packed … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"That's it - sale over. 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