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Short blog this week

Short blog this week, the alternative was no blog! I am very busy with all the changes taking place at the moment. It is Friday 13th which doesn't bode well with the fact that when my hubby gets in from work today he will be moving everything over to my new Apple Mac computer and then I will be spending the weekend learning to use the new system (wish me luck). Last weekend we picked up my new car (new to me car), it is a Skoda Yeti, lovely but again very different from my old car and I am also busy arranging everything in preparation for my new business venture in the New Year "Ginny's Jungle parties". I have my first practice party set up for next weekend.

I am not giving up my online shop! I am just hoping to diversify a little. I want to concentrate on captive bred stock and buy in less wild caught specimens. Most of my animals are captive bred and it would be great if I could get to the stage where I am only selling captive bred animals and the more I can actually breed myself the better! I have had a really good year with my breeding successes, I have lots of stick insects, millipedes, scorpions, beetles and zillions of various cockroaches. I haven't had huge success with breeding my tarantulas mainly because I generally have males of one species and females of another, not very helpful when it comes to mating! Don't get me started on the 'I only want female tarantulas' trend, all I can say is "don't we all". I have a whole shelf of adult male tarantulas at the moment and I can't even sell them with 50% off, that is 50% off the special offer prices, some are as little as £4.00 each!(see pink information box for details of sale).

It has been a nice busy week for sales, I now need to clear up my bug room, it looks like a bomb has hit it. All the empty boxes and containers are strewn around the room. I will be cleaning and refilling them over the weekend. Although I am trying to cut down there always seems to be something to house in the empty containers. Christmas is fast approaching and I will be running lots of special offers beforehand and then restocking again in January. It is very difficult to say when my last posting day will be as a lot depends on the weather and how well the postal system is doing. I often cease sending out orders some time before Christmas so do take advantage of the special offers (some extra special prices will run for one or two days only), please order early to avoid disappointment. You are welcome to call in and collect any orders, just give me a call to arrange it. I won't be buying anything new this side of Christmas so some creatures will start to sell out, don't miss out on that 'special' spider that you wanted.

Anyway this was going to be a short blog! Talking of Christmas my cards have arrived and I'm really pleased with them this year. It wasn't easy to get the bugs to pose for their photo, as usual they were walking off everywhere and I was tearing my hair out but I got it done early and I am happy with the result. Did you see the photo that a lady called Deborah posted on Facebook? The picture was of her pet Chile Rose tarantula Terri that she bought from me 15 years ago and she is still going strong. I know some of you saw it but I'm wondering if I was supposed to 'share' it, I'm getting there but I still have a long way to go with Facebook. I thought it was super and really made my day. Lastly, I am loving this mild weather, sorry if it is freezing where you are but here in the South it is sunny and extremely warm for the time of year. Long may it last! Thankfully no more power cuts this week, I have managed to write my blog all in one go and on the right day!


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