Disrupting everything with some finishing touches

As we’re on a bit of a countdown to the opening on our bakery, we’re on with some fairly major finishing touches. Outside, no sooner have we completed some lead work above and framed our freshly painted Grocery Department shop sign (with some dressed pitch pine that we reclaimed from an old pew last week)… than before having a chance to photograph that* a gang arrived to dig up the street yesterday ready to connect us to a supply of 3 phase electricity tomorrow (See our post Being Eco… on 4.1.2022); So that Anna arrived at work today to think a bomb had gone off… not long following the nearby fire of January 13th (See post on 13.1.2022)

…albeit the bombers were very health and safety conscious with their safety barriers

So there’s that. And fingers crossed all goes well with the big connection tomorrow - and that we then have enough capacity to run our ovens and other equipment - and then a 22kw charger for an electric delivery van.

I still haven’t understood if or how it doesn’t cost 5 times as much to run things on electricity as gas, if our gas costs 3.4p per unit and our electricity is 20p+ per unit. In October by the way (with Bulb) our electricity for the restaurant went up from 16p per unit to 32p almost overnight, which translates as an additional cost of over £10,000 per year (which is as much as we’ve made some years!) I’ll write more about our restaurant economics later in the year.

Anyhoo, other disruptive finishing touches include painting out The Waiting Room restaurant sign today - as it was in fear of looking a little tired in between our fresh new signs, with its timber boards requiring a little R&R & TLC etc..