Virginia Cheeseman Blog

What a week! I really don't feel like writing my blog today because I am struggling to say anything positive, as you all know I like a good moan but honestly it has been torment. Having a new kitchen fitted is just a nightmare when you are working from home. I can't even fully explain it but briefly the kitchen and dining room are out of bounds which means that I need to go into the garden to get from my office on one side to the rest of the house on the other. Teddi is adorable but I have had to take her everywhere with me as all the doors are left open. I cannot go out because I am really busy with work and Teddi gets sick almost as soon as the car starts up! It has been warm, something I'm delighted about but Teddi has a thick coat and it is far too hot in the bug house for her. She has spent her week shredding the newspapers that I use for packing orders, I hope to get my hubby to put a photo on here (he did put a photo on last week's blog - due to popular demand). ...

It's the first day of Spring on Monday and also the day that the kitchen fitters start to put our kitchen back together again. I have only been without the kitchen for a week but it seems like a month. My husband, son and nephew have been working hard to prepare the room, there was a lot to do. Everyone keeps telling me it will be worth it in the end! The kitchen units are being packed into every available space in the house as I type, my office is full of the old kitchen contents, there's plaster dust everywhere, oh it is a nightmare. Back to the bugs, they are all fine, tucked up in their own little house at the bottom of the garden. Regardless of what I do with the heating and lighting the animals always know when it's Spring. I have lots of stick insects hatching, the first baby Hissing cockroaches of the year have just been born and my pet geckos have laid two eggs. I don't know what my South American Fishing spider is doing. She has webbed herself into a flower p...

We had a lovely time in London last weekend, thanks to my competition win. We stayed in a swish Mayfair hotel for three nights and got a glimpse of how the other half live. We did a lot of walking and although there was no rain, it was very cold and I ended up buying a new jacket and a vest! I could be turning cold blooded but it is probably just because I spend so much time in my tropical bug house, that I cannot tolerate the cold. It has been a very busy week as I had a lot of catching up to do. I was panicking about the lack of orders last week but thankfully this week has been much better, I have received far more orders. I would really like to branch out further into Europe, I have a few European customers but not that many. Posting abroad is no problem, most parcels only take a couple of days and arrive in perfect condition. I probably need to find a way to advertise, I actually advertise very little these days. Most of my customers come to me via 'word of mouth' or an i...