It's been a couple of weeks since we opened, so I thought I'd start with a message of thanks to everyone who has visited the shop and given us such tremendous support and

It's stuck in our heads, The Final Countdown, except in my version we're not heading for Venus - although a holiday anywhere would be nice about now…

No, we've not gone all Beverley Hills Cop on you, the heat really is on! It's two weeks until opening weekend and we've never been so hectic in our lives. It was only a few weeks ago that we got the keys to the shop and since then we've beenbusy getting the shop fitted out. The unit was quite literally handed over as a big empty box, no walls, no wiring, no plumbing. We didn't even have a light, so we toasted getting the keys on a cold February night with a glass of Roederer and a temperamental torch.