Hi, to everyone reading us from the USA and Never Pay Retail Again. It is super to have our products so popular in the USA and we are shipping them out as soon as we get your orders.

I will let you all know what we are up to through the blog. Remember they make super stocking fillers at Christmas - particularly the ...take5nets. Other than that people use them for golf balls storage, hairbrushes, toys for the car/automobile, garden shed tidy, kitchen tidy and many more uses. The drawstring and toggle closure is super to keep things safe and to hang up by.

Jodi you are doing a fantastic job....

Our Environment...

So concerned are we all with our world environment we have now got Oatcake manufacturers really looking at their ingredients. They would not do that if they didn't think it sold their oatcakes!

Patersons Rough Oatcakes are now orang-utan friendly!! Why? Because they are made with olive oil and not highly saturated palm oil. Their packaging tells us that vast amounts of rainforests in South East Asia are destroyed to clear way for palm oil plantations. In the past 20 years, 80% of orang-utans' habitat has disappeared. If this destruction continues at this rate then one of man's closest relative's could sadly face extinction within the next 20 years. As well as switching to olive oil Patersons also make a monthly donation, and have become members of, the Orang-utan Foundation.

...and that is just an interesting fact that we wished to share with you

76%

Just a quick blog today to report the result of a recent survey which said 76% of Britons feel guilty when they forget to take reusable bags to the supermarket.

We know our customers, and repeat/potential customers, are very ethically minded and shop a great deal in farm shops and food halls. They also have made reuseable bags a part of their everyday thinking but it is easy to forget ones reuseable bags and nets.

Best way round this is to have several sets, one storing fruit and vegetables in the fridge or vegetable rack (in the case of nets) and at least one set in the shopping bag.

We use our reusable nets for fishing?

Part two of the holiday found us in the lovely village of Auchaltibuie 25 miles north of Ullapool in an area known as the Summer Isles. One gets to it by a road known worldwide as "the wee mad road" - well named. Fishing is the mainstay of the community. This is where litter is unheard of because one takes ones litter home. Our reusable nets and reusable bags came into thier own. Each day they took our sandwiches, apples and drinks as we headed off on another exploration. We used the nets as reusable fruit and vegetable nets and our bread nets for the sandwiches. Our folding shopping bags, being so lightweight took the drinks, sandwiches and fruit. Was the day we would have used supermarket bags but, thankfully, we have evolved....Once snacks were all eaten we could fold up our reusable multipurpose bags into a reusable compact shopping bag to use again and again...

Back to work....

Whew, we had packed our vegetable nets, bread nets, vegetable bags and deli bags...and we needed all the shopping bags and nets!! First stop was a week in Glenfeshie...if you haven't been it is a lovely area and the weather was good...actually it is usually fantastic weather. We canoed and took our lunch bags and nets out in the bread nets and vegetable nets and used the vegetable bag as a sort of rucksack for everything. We did the same trick when out walking but used a full scale rucksack for the safety aspects of being out walking in the highlands. We stopped off for coffees and lunches in some lovely farm shops and enjoyed quiet walks along highland rivers running through gorges. Its great writing about it as we can visualise it all over again...enough for one day will tell you more tomorrow...as a taster we are off up to the West coast North of Ullapool to a place called Achiltibuie...see you there............

We had an emergency...

We had packed and driven to the one of the most scenic parts of Scotland, Auchiltibuie and the Summer Isles (well named!!). We had been shown our lovely log cabin, part of the hotel which allowed you to be part self-catering and part guest at the hotel as you choose. It was luxury. All we needed to do now was unpack and settle in - the sun was shining on the water, the mountains looking inviting and we had seen the menu so knew that dinner was scrummy.

Then it happened...."Did you see the black again bag?" "No, I thought you had packed it in the car first". "Did it have the green nets in it?" "Yes" came the reply. "What about the bread nets and the ...take5bags?" "Yup, they were in it too".

Well, only one thing for it - we will have to turn around and go home... but I have an idea, "we could buy another set from the shop we sell to just down the road...." Phew, that idea saved the day...and then........... I woke up... Must just go and check the car for all our necessary nets, bags, breads and agains as we are off on that holiday...but with the reusables!

Holidays - different sort...

We are off on our holidays this week. The mind is turning to what to pack in which bag, how to store the goodies in reusable multipurpose bags, whether to use compact net bags or the bakery nets.

All have their uses. There is the fruit and vegetables for the reusable bags with nets - that will be the potatoes with various fruit and vegetables in the nets. Although as a family we don't eat huge amounts of bread the bakery nets come in handy for the treats in the bakery line that we have for holidays. Then there is using the multipurpose bags for other items that are small and may get lost. With the drawstring and toggle closure they are kept safe and we can find them at the end of the journey.

Once the holiday unpacking is done at the other end I can envisage the nets and bags being used for all sorts of mementos of the holiday from pebbles from the beach to other goodies from the shops.