Weather and Tax - middle aged dinner party chat!

So what are we up to at the moment? We were hoping to have our stock today, but needless to say there has been a slight delay… we are once again about a week away from seeing the product.

I would like to say that we have been put back a week because we are trying to launch in the sunshine… but the reality is that there has been a further issue with our labels (apparently a few mm count). It is all being sorted at the moment, but it will take a further week for us to get our stock.

As for the weather… that all looks pretty horrific and the sky is grey once again above Muddler HQ! Our stock is currently in South Yorkshire, so I shall be asking them to store it up high!

So I’ve been doing the exciting tasks of trying to get us a VAT number. It has taken the government an amazing 9 and a half weeks to even pick up our application. Then the first thing they do is ask for more information! So this all means the government gets to sit on the VAT we’ve paid out. This is on top of the duty which works out at about 35p a bottle of Muddler (and VAT gets added on top of this). Anyway, enough of my tax whinging!

As well as the excitement of tax forms, I am now stuffing envelopes for our first mail out! Who said that starting your own business was not glamorous?

Tomorrow I shall be trying to get Henry to write about a wet weekend in Glastonbury!

And tonight we get to see what the Fruka they are up to on Tycoon (ITV at 9pm tonight)… maybe they are having label issues!