Happy New Year – almost. I cannot believe this weather! We have thick snow again and everything has ground to a halt. It is difficult to get around here and it is clearly too much trouble for Royal Mail who don’t even try (the paperman and milkman have managed it). We had no mail deliveries or collections before Christmas and we have none again now. Thankfully I did manage to get some orders off on Monday and Tuesday before the snow descended but this was not without problems as several parcels were delayed. Some due to being held up in the post but others due to colleges being closed and people being sent home from work so that there was nobody there to receive the parcels. I am really hoping to post out some orders next week but the forecast is not looking great. Most of you will know by now that I really, really hate the cold. I don’t care that snow is pretty, I just wish it would disappear. Once I have written this blog I am going out to the bug house and staying there!
I am actually really busy though, the bugs are cosy in their log cabin and all are doing well. I have lots of home grown spiderlings to house up (before they start eating each other). Thus I have some very good prices on the site for these, especially if you can come and collect them! It is a nightmare collecting bramble but the stick insects are breeding prolifically, especially the Giant Thorny. These stick insects are great, they are easy to keep and grow to a very good size. I have been cleaning out my cockroach colonies this week (well, made a start, I have a lot of cockroaches). I now sell a large number of cockroaches, I know a lot of them end up as live food (recycling as I like to call it) but they do make good pets too. They are easy to keep and feed and fun to watch as they are so much more active than a lot of pet bugs. My husband pointed out the other day that the Domino cockroach is my top selling item at the moment. This is shown under ‘best sellers’ on the right hand side of my website. I am still learning about the site even though it has been up and running since September. Thank goodness my website guy is so helpful and my husband is pretty good too. Computers are amazing but I just want it to work, I have no interest in how it gets there.
I do hope you all had a good Christmas, we had a very nice time. Sorry to moan quite so much but it has been a very trying first week back! |
