We're back....

Well, the cart has re-opened, and don't we just know it!  The volume of orders has been far beyond our expectations, so thank you one and all for your patience in waiting all this time and then sticking to the order limitations. 

The Time is nigh...

After careful deliberation a suitable result from the auguries, and a rather pleasant picture in the tealeaves, I am happy to announce that we will be reopening for business on Friday 19th February.

We are getting there...

...honest we are!   This week's magic number is 15401.   Some of you with order numbers prior to this will actually be going out next week due to our internal quarantine system.  Don't panic - you have not been forgotten or overlooked.

Yet another order update

We are still chipping away at the order pile, and this week have got as far as 15342.   Once again, progress is slow because of having to deal with some very large orders, which can tie down a whole day's output.   The good news is that there are fewer of those ahead of us now.  

Order update

We've managed to get up to order 15328.  It looks like relatively slow progress, but we are coming across a lot of the larger orders left to us, so the total amount of metal cast and packed this week is pretty much the same as usual, but it looks a lot less impressive when you just compare number of orders processed.

Order update

We've been hacking at the order pile and we have got all the orders up to number 15296 out and on their way.   I say ,'all', but there are a few odd orders prior to this number which didn't get out this week, so don't panic if you think we've passed you by!

Important announcement - please read!

I’m sorry, but this is a more sober announcement than usual. The fallout from the Covid outbreak in the UK is very serious indeed. At Baccus we have striven to keep staff and their families as safe as we can, and this has been at the expense of our ability to produce. The latest infection and hospitalization numbers are worrying to say the least. As a result, We will be further reducing staff numbers and hours until the current trends reverse

2020 – A Year that will live in Infamy…

I must admit that this is one of the strangest and hardest of these pieces that I have had to put together.   The format of the end of year Baccus posts is usually very formulaic; I review the bleeding obvious in terms of the bits and pieces we have actually released over the last 12 months, gloss over the stuff that we didn't get out and then proceed to weave a positive dream about the magnificent year ahead of such Goveian proportions that it would cause a government minister to blush in shame in terms of its positive distortion of reality.    This year has been…different…

Yes, it is ‘that’ time of year again…

I have prised the ladles out of the hands of the casting team and told them to go home for a well-earned and well-deserved Christmas break.    It has been a hard year for everyone in lots of ways, and our best wishes go out to all for the festive season.   I think that we are all going to make the best of Christmas this year, and even one of our soon-to-be-released Panthers is joining in as it dons suitable seasonal garb.

For all our European Customers

I think that my personal views on the wisdom of the Brexit project are well known, but like it or not, it has happened, and things will change from January 1st.   As yet, the sharp intellects negotiating on our behalf have yet to actually distinguish their buttocks from their arm joints and no-one has a clue as to what the situation will be vis a vis tariffs, deals, no deals or the price of fish.