Bubblewrap's Total Versatility

Last week I wrote about preparing for winter somewhat tongue-in-cheek, little realising that a few days later we would be heading towards arctic conditions and a major freeze-up. The pipes in our tea room had frozen up over the weekend. The hot water tap was left on and as it thawed out with the heating on, burst out like a thermal spa all over the floor leaving a huge puddle in the middle of the carpet tiles. A very visible reminder that we should have lagged the pipes properly during the summer, which was on the 'to do' list, but somehow did not seem such a priority then and got forgotten about.

It's amazing how a little bit of lagging protects and prevents these little mishaps. Obviously one of our customers had been doing some reactive thinking along the same lines, as we had an emergency request for bubblewrap to put around a large urn in their garden. I hadn't considered our packaging shop to have a gardening section, but in fact this is a really practical use for bubblewrap. Perhaps we should think about doing some sort of promotion ...................