I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. I do apologise for everyone that was trying to contact me in the weeks leading up to Christmas, but had no luck. I moved both house and office in November, and freely admit I didn't do a great job of being organised. After living in the same place for 34 years, I'm just not used to moving and didn't realise there were so many things to organise.

Apart from the packing and disposing of all that unwanted 'stuff' which I had no idea what to do with, I didn't realise what a huge job sorting the phones and internet out would be. After nearly two months of receiving the complete run-around, my internet has now been connected twice, and the old phone number is still not diverted. I'm terrified of ringing to try and rectify this, as I just know the internet will be disconnected and the diversion will be put on the wrong line. Other people have told me they have these problems with phone carriers, but until I experienced it myself, I really didn't quite believe it.

Anyway, all is well now and back to normal. There are loads of new prodcuts coming through and some exciting upgrades for 2012, so stay tuned for more news as it happens.

I know I've been slack but I haven't sent a printed catalogue out since Christmas 2009. As everything is listed on the website I thought that you didn't really want them, but I've received so many requests to start mailing them again, I just couldn't say no.

I have received heaps of phone calls and emails from people asking me if I had seen War Horse yet and what I thought of it. Just like all we horse fans, I was really concerned at how much I was going to cry and how graphic the war scenes would be. Now after finally seeing it, I can happily report all is well. Go and see it, and I’m sure you won’t be disappointed.

There was a terrific new adult book published just before Christmas, which you may not have heard about yet. Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears, is a rare Aussie treat, and one I'm sure you will enjoy.