Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

It certainly feels like it has been a battle to get to this stage and yet I haven't even tried to sell a single item yet!!


I now know that there are 149 cartons waiting to be picked up from a warehouse near the M25 - time to clear out the garage!!

Garage cleared - all ready to go and collect my goods, just a quick phone call to check their opening times oh and "by the way the goods haven't been cleared for release so you won't be able to pick them up." Yet again my Chinese facilitators have yet again done anything but facilitate!! Having transferred my final dues for shipping, VAT etc. a week ago I was pleasantly surprised when I received the details of my shipment and where I could pick them up from - I guess I should have known then that this was running too smoothly to be believed, how appropriate the title for this post, which I typed a couple of days ago, now seems.