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It’s been a couple of weeks since Salute, and our major achievement since then has been to clear the small backlog of orders that built up during the leadup to the show. We’ve also had quite a few orders since then, so it looks like we were able to reach some new people as well, which is great.<\/p>\n

Having managed to get back to normal, the obvious thing to do is go on holiday and let the orders pile up again! Tony is off to the south coast for a few days, so while the website remains open for orders, we won’t be able to process any of them until after the May bank holiday on the 4th. <\/p>\n

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Happy doggo on her holidays!<\/p><\/div>\n

Unfortunately, we haven’t had time to get any more of our Salute releases onto the website, so we’ll try to correct that with a double dose when he returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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