Another year’s stocktake over! Thankfully! It’s the one job that we don’t relish doing here at Fragrances of Ireland but it’s something that has to be done once a year. Every January our teams get together and spend time counting each and every stock item in our warehouses in Ireland and the US. It takes time and effort and can take second and third counts but we’ve gotten there and all over now for another year! Garry can now say goodbye to sleepless nights until next January - unless of course his two little boys manage to wake him up in the meantime!!

Last Tuesday we got our first glimpse of Spring here in County Wicklow – blue skies & crisp air! However it was a joke – we are now back to gloomy skies and very very cold! In fact we had hailstones here this morning and now Claire who lives in Roundwood (the highest village in Ireland!) is worrying that we are going to get another snowfall and she will be cut off from the world once again! Roll on summertime!