Friday, December 21, 2007

Feet not touching the ground


This a time of busyness...moving 3 weeks ago, starting a business and having family around for Christmas is just madness. My feet are not touching the ground but all in all we are buzzing.
The customers are in a happy mood albeit very cold as the frost descended on the village today and many are staying in to keep warm. The church is being decorated for the festive season and there is a lot of activity around.

Personally I have been working in the background at my health and hygiene schedule. ( Oh yes you need one). Every day there are a variety of jobs and chores to be done to keep the place looking clean and tidy and we need a record of it so that if in the future we employ staff to clean the shop they need to know exactly what needs doing and how to do it. It seems common sense but when you get an inspection from the authorities you want to be able to show that at least there is a plan. You need to sign and date every activity to ensure that it is carried out.
It is really no different than running a home, apart from the fact that noone has the authority to check on your cleaning schedule. I therefore have adapted the flylady system to the shop and I am happy with it.

I have way too much cheese. I obviously have a bit of a weakness there and got carried away, but it keeps. The other thing I got wrong was that DH wanted 12 bottles of a particular wine and I ordered 12 cases. We need to work a bit on the communication in our team but the two go well together and there will be no lack of cheese and wine.
Tomorrow we offer mulled wine ( ha.....I can use some of that wine) and mince pies to the customers and we will don our christmas hats with flashing lights. Hopefully I will manage to capture that festive moment for you on camera.

So far so good....feet up tonight with a glass of wine. Well deserved!

4 comments:

Sian said...

Sounds like your shop is a lot of fun to visit! Hope you are enjoying yourself too

Unknown said...

I would love to help you out with the excess cheese, and I'm sure my hubbie could with the wine lol :)

Meery Christmas to you and your family, Ali

Mark said...

Hi Anne,
How's the cheese coming on.I have just sent Wallice and Gromit down to help out. Don't let Gromit near the wine though as it makes his nose go red and he might be mistaken for a ReinDog.

Cheers Mark

Downshiftingpath said...

Still cheese, wine and now butter...I can feel a party coming on.