Spring, and our new website has sprung!
Finally, it is here – our beautiful new website. Not that our old website wasn ‘t beautiful, but you did need to be a person of quite extraordinary perseverance if you wanted to actually buy anything from it and now it is all sensationally easy. Many thanks to those of you who did show extraordinary perseverance over the past three years – we hope the brilliant new shopping experience is ample reward for your hard work in the past.
Finally, it is here – our beautiful new website. Not that our old website wasn ‘t beautiful, but you did need to be a person of quite extraordinary perseverance if you wanted to actually buy anything from it and now it is all sensationally easy. Many thanks to those of you who did show extraordinary perseverance over the past three years – we hope the brilliant new shopping experience is ample reward for your hard work in the past.
The new site is the work of the exceptional Emily. Emily started working in our bar about 6 months ago and kept her design and marketing talents a secret at first until one night, after a particularly enthusiastic wine tasting session with Claire, told me that she had some ideas she thought I would like. Actually, I seem to remember that it came out slightly less coherently than that but I got the gist.
I did like the ideas very much when she presented them to me a while later and thanks to her, everything is now new and gorgeous. Emily will hopefully be doing a lot more that is new and gorgeous for Green & Blue in the future and is a very useful reminder of the fact that amongst the chunks of pure hell that was last year, some very good things happened too.
We have no idea of how long it will take to get the sales off the ground. As I am the delivery driver for Greater London orders, a part of me hopes it will be a slow build. There are only, sadly, 24 hours in a day and so only so much that ever seems to get done. Delivering lots of wine may be the wafer thin mint in the moveable feast that is Green & Blue, leading to a spectacular explosion. Hopefully not but probably a Very Good Thing that I am trying to learn meditation at the moment.
This also means that we finally have a van. The Golf was bequeathed to a friend of a friend who appeared delighted at the prospect of rattling around in a wheezy old tank that would almost certainly break down on a monthly basis while we signed up for lease purchase agreement – something I always wanted to avoid but needs must while we wait for the insurance cheque to come through. I am quite deeply in love with the van. It is small and zippy and has a heater which works and power steering. It is amazing how not driving around while slowly freezing solid has transformed my life. We sadly really could not afford a very environmentally friendly option so had to settle for the smallest engine size we could afford for our purposes. We will try to compensate by being incredibly good on the packaging front – more details when this is finalised.
Three of us are off to champagne soon and I will make sure that I post the full story of that here. We may also, finally, have some footage to show as well.
The new site is the work of the exceptional Emily. Emily started working in our bar about 6 months ago and kept her design and marketing talents a secret at first until one night, after a particularly enthusiastic wine tasting session with Claire, told me that she had some ideas she thought I would like. Actually, I seem to remember that it came out slightly less coherently than that but I got the gist.
I did like the ideas very much when she presented them to me a while later and thanks to her, everything is now new and gorgeous. Emily will hopefully be doing a lot more that is new and gorgeous for Green & Blue in the future and is a very useful reminder of the fact that amongst the chunks of pure hell that was last year, some very good things happened too.
We have no idea of how long it will take to get the sales off the ground. As I am the delivery driver for Greater London orders, a part of me hopes it will be a slow build. There are only, sadly, 24 hours in a day and so only so much that ever seems to get done. Delivering lots of wine may be the wafer thin mint in the moveable feast that is Green & Blue, leading to a spectacular explosion. Hopefully not but probably a Very Good Thing that I am trying to learn meditation at the moment.
This also means that we finally have a van. The Golf was bequeathed to a friend of a friend who appeared delighted at the prospect of rattling around in a wheezy old tank that would almost certainly break down on a monthly basis while we signed up for lease purchase agreement – something I always wanted to avoid but needs must while we wait for the insurance cheque to come through. I am quite deeply in love with the van. It is small and zippy and has a heater which works and power steering. It is amazing how not driving around while slowly freezing solid has transformed my life. We sadly really could not afford a very environmentally friendly option so had to settle for the smallest engine size we could afford for our purposes. We will try to compensate by being incredibly good on the packaging front – more details when this is finalised.
Three of us are off to champagne soon and I will make sure that I post the full story of that here. We may also, finally, have some footage to show as well.
