Busy week, puppy calls and new releases

I'm writing this whilst sipping my first coffee, caught in an almost perpetual bewildered yawn. Trying to fathom the chaos of the last working week.

At one pint yesterday I actually considered renting a fourth premises because we were so short of space, the 4.00pm Royal Mail collection and 4.30 phone call to tell me the third pallet of the week would be delayed until Monday brought some temporary relief.

We had set aside some Beer and Wine for our Royal Mail fella because we had probably bagged close to a ton of records and cds, we reckoned he deserved the thank you. We saw him pull up, we began carrying the first sacks to his van, we watched as he sat in his van, waiting for us to do all the manual labour, we even loaded them into his van. The thank you note was destroyed, the beer and wine was then distributed, where it mattered, to the staff doing all the work.

There is something curious about LNFG, you can bet your bottom dollar that when we announce that we are cripplingly busy, that's the very thing that will prompt a member to think, ach I'll pop in for a pick up. Now, we are always delighted to see the vast vast majority of our members, we are especially delighted to see those who understand when we groan at their arrival. It does mean we love you, unless of course we actually are groaning in which case ....

Yesterday was no different, 7 members of staff, hard at it without a break for the entire day and endless procession of visitors and customers and then ... Jerry Burns popped in. Jerry's Brother Gerard had already been in on Wednesday for an album chat (Valerie and the Week of Wonders) If you don't know Jerry, let me say she is an absolute delight and probably one of only a handful of people whom - even on the busiest day of our 10 year history - we were happy to see. Jerry is the type of person who would bring a costume change on a dog walk, her eneergy is infectuous and it's likely that the tag team chat we had going was the only thing that saved us from a complete melt down.

Did I also mention that we are breaking in a new pup this week ...

Now I mention this really as a precursor to another short story, in one moment, when Ash and I were chatting with Jerry, everyone else was either in our shop, warehouse or in between the two. We were discussing the crazy emails and phone calls we get, when Ash said something that made me sit bolt up right - "WHAT?" "Aye" she says "Twice when you were in Norway" As each member of the staff returned breifly to the office I would ask them "Did you know this?" "Each would say - "oh yeah I was here when they called" My increduality knew no bounds, I could neither believe it had happened - TWICE nor could i grasp that I was last to know ... Twice, I repeat Twice, when Julia and I were in Norway, folks phoned up asking to buy ..... our dogs!

"I'm phoning about the springer spaniel puppy on your website"

The LNFG Unobtanium Puppy Plan, one different puppy delivered to your door every month for 12 months.

Anway - in other news, actual label news - Steven Lindsay was prevented from securing his first ever number 1 album by someone called Ariana Grande, apparently she is quite popular. We shipped over 900 units of Anchoress LPs and CDs and Cassettes yesterday.

On Monday, our delayed pallet of albums lands - Billy Reeves, Paul Leonard Morgan and Len Pennie, I Will Take You Hunting, and Valerie and The Week of Wonders should all hit the shelves by Tuesday.

Later this week we will reveal the line up for our 11th Birthday Party in April 2027. Finally, we have fewer than 20 Unobtanium Memberships left for sale, These are definitievly capped this year so if you hold one and have not renewed it yet, or fancy grabbing one, I urge you to tell us you want to keep your space or make a deposit payment pretty quickly.

Unobtanium Membership 2027

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4 Installments - 2027 Unobtanium

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4 Installments 2027 Unobtanium CD

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Unobtanium CD Membership 27

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Puppy not included but please click the image of Bennett if you want instalments

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