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Bugger
I went to order another box of the lovely hamper boxes that I use for Christmas, and they've been discontinued. I even emailed them to double check: they still have the die, so they can do me a special order if I would like 250 of them....
(They were brilliant: two drawers, and you could put a divider thing in the drawers to that wine bottles were safe and sound as long as the delivery driver wasn't a complete idiot. Only had two casualties in about ten years of using them. And I've still got eight unused shipping boxes for them. Bah.)
I have two of them upstairs, so I'm currently crossing my fingers that a) my mum saved hers from last year for me to re-use and b) that they come to visit before Christmas, so that I'll then have three boxes and (because they can take some of them with them to hand delivery) only need to ship three of them by courier. (Hi Mum! Obvs will be nice to see you too, but priorities!)
And now I need to figure out a new packaging solution for next year, or decide that I've had enough of doing hampers. They are quite fun, though, and mostly consumable. And I need to buy some less-good boxes for the rest of this year's.
(Anagramma's eye looks much the same, but when I was putting goo in it today she was closing it, which she hadn't been doing previously, so presumably the swelling's going down. The ducks are all annoyed with me and keep running off when they see me, but I remembered that we have a net for scooping leaves off the fish pond and I've started to use that to catch her, rather than herding them all indoors and then trying to grab her, so hopefully the rest of them will stop sulking soon.)
(They were brilliant: two drawers, and you could put a divider thing in the drawers to that wine bottles were safe and sound as long as the delivery driver wasn't a complete idiot. Only had two casualties in about ten years of using them. And I've still got eight unused shipping boxes for them. Bah.)
I have two of them upstairs, so I'm currently crossing my fingers that a) my mum saved hers from last year for me to re-use and b) that they come to visit before Christmas, so that I'll then have three boxes and (because they can take some of them with them to hand delivery) only need to ship three of them by courier. (Hi Mum! Obvs will be nice to see you too, but priorities!)
And now I need to figure out a new packaging solution for next year, or decide that I've had enough of doing hampers. They are quite fun, though, and mostly consumable. And I need to buy some less-good boxes for the rest of this year's.
(Anagramma's eye looks much the same, but when I was putting goo in it today she was closing it, which she hadn't been doing previously, so presumably the swelling's going down. The ducks are all annoyed with me and keep running off when they see me, but I remembered that we have a net for scooping leaves off the fish pond and I've started to use that to catch her, rather than herding them all indoors and then trying to grab her, so hopefully the rest of them will stop sulking soon.)