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Thankyou for all you support through what has been one of the most exciting years in business for us to date. Certain small details like the state of my hair for instance, give it away that we have been truly busy! The good news is that our mail order team in Glasgow, led by Carrie, have done a fabulous job and are ahead of the game. All UK orders placed by midnight on Friday 18th December 2009 should be delivered in time for Christmas. We are also open late in all our shops so there is more time than ever for you to visit and decide what you need. But if you have yet to order, do not panic, there may still be time for us to deliver before your big day if you are quick and there will of course be a delivery prior to your New Year festivities. Let us know if your order is urgent by simply emailing the details to info@demijohn.co.uk after you have placed it and we will do everything we can to help! *Terms & conditions apply to our mail order deliveries, please click for full details. Please note, for orders placed after Friday 18th Dec we cannot guarantee a Christmas delivery.
to order any of our products either visit our new Demijohn Online Shop or call us on +44 (0)141 3373600
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Demijohn News - December 2009
 Our News: December is normally a period free of events for us, which for me brings some relief from the intensive workload they create. But crazy as a cat in changing weather, I decided that we should squeeze one more in the events calendar this year, and run our very own Christmas Fair at the impressive Kibble Palace in Glasgow's Botanic Gardens in aid of Maggie's Cancer Centres. So this is the story, brought to you from someone who has never organised a fair before! If I thought for a moment it would be easy, I was wrong. But I have learnt through life that when organising anything, one has to be prepared for the unexpected and the unexpected in this case was positively tropical! The concept was simple, start with a few Demijohn cocktails, bring on some delightful music, roll out a celebrity endorsement and provide lots of nice products to buy of which 10% all goes for a good cause. Picture this then of the opening night. The venue, one of the most beautifully styled and kept tropical glass houses in the World. Its pleasant humid warmth that only a heated glasshouse could provide. Its foliage filled interior, lit up atmospherically on a cold night from within. Kirsty Wark on her podium, toasting the Fair's success for Maggies with a demijohn cocktail in one hand and a striking of enthusiasm  with the other. Delightful classical music in the background from Carla Chiappa & Ailsa Aitkenhead of Edinburgh University School of Music on their debut night as the now famous duet "Carla & Ailsa" (and bookable yourself, telephone Carla: 07891405393). Like a souk, the chatter of many happy visitors and hum of restless trade (about 1000 attended the 2 day event!). The munching of Heart Buchanan's delicious canapes. Then also picture this, the first evening draws to a close, weary and shattered I turn to my co-organising partner Netty Hammond Chambers of Chuffs, for whom the event would have been impossible without, and ask, "where are you sleeping?" She replies in a nonchalant tone, "why, the Ambassador Hotel of course, and you?" I reply somberly, "in the Kibble Palace with all my friends the plants!" And so I did, volunteer myself for security duty. To keep safe stock and sleep with plants all night. You can only imagine what I resembled in the morning after my jungle like sleep. The Kibble Palace Christmas Fair was a success, raising around £5,500 for Maggies and will be run again next year. There are too many persons to thank who made the Fair possible, such as the Maggies Team and Fi from Heart Buchanan, but one man in particular Ewen Donaldson, the General Manager of Glasgow's Botanic Gardens, must be singled out as an example of the magical quality being employed by Glasgow City Council these days. Without Ewen our task would have been painfully impossible. Look out for my invitation email in November next year, this is not one to be missed!
 Product News - Enter our Liqueur Making Competition and win a £100 Demijohn Hamper.....
We are running our first liqueur making competition, and there are already some very creative entries being submitted to win a fabulous Demijohn £100 hamper. The deadline for entries in accordance with our Competition Rules is 1st February 2010, so there is still time for you to get experimenting over the festive period and enter a winning brew. Good luck!
Coming soon: The new Villa Montalbano Harvest, get ready to refill your bottles early in the new year!
Staff News
Thankyou to all the wonderful people who have submitted CV's to try and join us this year. Unfortunately we could only employ a few of you, however good you are. We have successfully taken on 4 new Staff since my last newsletter, so we can now welcome James Acheson, Chris Corrie, Catriona Donaldson, Ellen Schafer as the latest members to join our team. They are still wondering which way is up, despite being made to work like Trojans in Edinburgh, York and Glasgow!
Do let me know if you have any comments about our service, especially where we could improve, as I am always keen to hear suggestions. Simply email me at info@demijohn.co.uk
Just in case we do not see you before the 25th, thankyou for your loyal custom during 2010 and have a very Merry Christmas.
Angus Ferguson
Managing Director
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