Monday, August 10, 2009

Radio interview about the Postal strike

Being a web based business we totally rely on the good old Royal Mail to send out our goods. The upcoming postal strikes in our region do give us some cause for concern - during the last strikes around 2007 we were forced to use a courier which obviously cost us more. Since then service has been OK but it all seems to be happening again.

The local radio (Heart) are aware that we exist and sometimes call us for our perspective on issues affecting small local businesses so we had a visit from Jade (not Chis Moyles to the kids disappointment) for a short interview. Rachel did well - how much of my mumbling they actually broadcast we will see!

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Red Top Fly traps on Tour












We've just come back from a week in Portugal which was a great, relaxing and peaceful break for us both and the children, (ignoring Ryanair's part in this). We stayed at a great chalet in the mountains in Alombada, central Portugal.

We found the place because last year they had bought some of our red top fly traps as they did again this year. Not one to miss an advertising opportunity we took a picture too!

Each year we get more and more enquiries for traps from the continent, last year is was mostly from France - and mostly 'referred by a friend' - and this year we have had a few enquires from Spain.