Phoned the licensing board at 9am to see what the problem was. No problem at all said the lady - I just gave you a call to say the licence was in the post, just a little worried you might not get it in time for the market. Fine we say then engage in little friendly chat. We thought theere may have been a problem as the officer dealing with the application at Maryhill Police Station had never heard of Colonsay, despite it being the same force area, and had phoned to ask which police station covered us. "Funilly enough," said the licencing boasrd lady, I had never heard of Colonsay either." Kirkinwhere we said.
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Amongst all the email junk was a communication from our old friends Jo and Lucky. They managed the hotel for two seasons before going back on the road travelling the world. Lucky donated the design that graces our very popular clothing lines at the brewery shop. (Give us a ring if you want anything for Christmas). Anyway Lucky sent us a link to a You Tube video of a New Zealand brewery ad that is really rather good. Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn7u5XvupSU
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When you have four people owning one business it can sometimes be the case that each one thinks the other has done some particular job the result being that no one does it. So, we discovered tonight, that is what has happened with one part of this very website. We all kinda assumed one of the others was getting email sent to us through the site. It turns out no one was because we went into our info@ box at Scotnet and found it rather full. In fact it took nearly half an hour to download all the email that had been piling up since the site went live. Much more has been lost altogether, deleted by our host as the box overflows.
Amongst the highlights, a number of East European beer label collectors, some very exciting business propositions from potential partner operations in Nigeria, and best of all a job application from a young Italian lady brewing graduate. We're asked for a photograph.
Also several order inquiries which have been dealt with now, rather belatedly. Apologies to all who deserved a replay and had to wait some months for it. We are running properly now.
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Oh joy - we have a reaction from the nice lady at Peckhams Here is part of it:
Hello David,
Can I just say that in all my years as a buyer , never before have beautiful flowers been delivered from a potential supplier. That is a most unusual approach, and one which brought cheer to our office. We are tasting the beers and will be looking at them in a most favourable way as a result of the 10/10 for approach to buyers mark we rewarded you.
We like the labels, which is a positive start, and we will compare notes next week
So - the boss is proved right again. Fingers crossed they place an order. Its the sort of chain that would be perfect for us. We will never be a Tesco Beer (though Oban would be good Dan).
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The mainland sales executive finds a message on his mobile phone from a lady at the licencing department of East Dunbartonshire Council. Can we phone her urgently. They're shut now for the weekend. Does this mean there is a problem for the Christmas Market licence at Milngavie on Wednesday. Hope not. Its fancy dress and David's spent ages working on his costume.
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