2020 - all change
Posted by Peter on 7th April 2020
23/03 Non essential Brave Swings are ideal during this awful time.
We continue to put them on trucks, who continue to deliver them until lockdown or illness or the all-clear.
Most of our team are WFH, but we have a skeleton office presence and our warehouse is fully staffed.
24/03
Skeleton Office team are now full-time warehouse skeleton team.
Record day. (beating yesterday's record).
Michael Gove says quite clearly that Toys should continue to ship on Radio4.
02/04
Business is Brisk (up 100%), but we are only about a day behind, feeling like a start-up again.
07/04
Office/Warehouse team getting pretty slick now, perhaps getting fitter too.
15/05
We are a well-oiled machine, firing on all cylinders - running at about 4x normal speed
17/07
Disaster! our steel has not been rolled - and the mill is shut for a month
29/07
New supply from a new supplier (amazing) is going out.
12/08
Living hand-to-mouth, the steel goes out as soon as it comes in.
03/08
Its all gone. Next batch arrives in late September