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Merry Christmas and Delivery Dates - order by 11pm Sunday 20th December
11 Dec 2009 | Eliot Sykes
As the chipper snowman at the top of the page kindly reminds us, order your umbrellas by 11pm Sunday 20th December for delivery before Christmas Day 2009.
Fulton Jumbo and GustBuster Golf umbrellas back in stock!
10 Dec 2009 | Eliot Sykes
I'm happy to report that we've got two more umbrella designs back in stock that get my thumbs up for strength and for just being top notch umbrellas that do what they're supposed to in nasty weather: the Fulton Jumbo umbrella and the dual canopy GustBuster Golf umbrella.
Fulton Birdcage umbrellas and GustBuster Metro umbrellas back in stock!
5 Dec 2009 | Eliot Sykes
The classic domed umbrella, the Fulton Birdcage, is back in stock along with one of my personal favourites for strength and durability, the windproof GustBuster Metro.
Accepting new orders for Xmas!
5 Dec 2009 | Eliot Sykes
Shortly we'll be accepting new orders for Xmas, I will write a blog post here very soon to announce it!
If your delivery is late, here's why
14 Oct 2009 | Eliot Sykes
Fantastic video raising money for the RSPCA, Mike Izzard, a Royal Mail postman performs a great tribute to Michael Jackson.
No new orders for the next week or so
8 Oct 2009 | Eliot Sykes
My wife and I are making preparations so we can handle the Xmas rush to the best of our abilities. Unfortunately this means we won't be accepting any new orders for the next week. Apologies to all our customers for the inconvenience, normal service will be resumed shortly!
Postal strikes appear to be over for now
2 Oct 2009 | Eliot Sykes
Postal strikes appear to be over for the short term, deliveries will hopefully be back to normal as a result!
Postal strikes may mean delayed deliveries
29 Sept 2009 | Eliot Sykes
The London postal strikes may mean delivery takes longer than the usual 3 to 5 days, I'm sorry for any inconvenience this causes you, please accept my sincerest apologies.
Birdcage umbrellas back in stock!
21 Sept 2009 | Eliot Sykes
As promised the Birdcage umbrella from Fulton is back in stock today.
Fulton Birdcages back in stock Monday
17 Sept 2009 | Eliot Sykes
Sorry, if you came here looking for a Fulton Birdcage, we're getting them back in stock next week, please send an e-mail to help@umbrella.co.uk with the subject "Fulton Birdcage stock alert" if you want to be e-mailed a reminder when they're available.
Tubes - a unique way to send wedding invite scrolls
17 Sept 2009 | Eliot Sykes
If you are shopping for wedding umbrellas you might have an interest in wedding invites, so, while looking for packaging for umbrellas, I stumbled across these different tube designs that can be used to post wedding invite scrolls. Hopefully this will help some of you!
Free Returns are now easier than...
16 Sept 2009 | Eliot Sykes
...before (I wanted to write something smart here but I've not got the time/brain and besides there are umbrellas that need sending so...).
Returns are easier thanks to our new freepost address Royal Mail confirmed today and which you can find on our Free Returns page. Not that many customers need to return an umbrella, but if you do we're happy to help however we can!
12 Fun and Creative Umbrellas
10 Sept 2009 | Eliot Sykes
Photographs of 12 original umbrellas that I enjoyed today. BTW we don't stock the Senz umbrella shown in the article. I wanted to stock it, but after reading the Amazon reviews for it I've had second thoughts. My advice would be to take a close look at the GustBuster Metro.
Fixed! Web site now taking orders
7 Sept 2009 | Eliot Sykes
The web site is now taking orders again, it was a problem with our stock levels which we've now taken steps to prevent from happening again. Thank you for your patience.
Technical issue, web site not taking orders
7 Sept 2009 | Eliot Sykes
Unfortunately the web site is not able to take orders at the moment. This is a minor technical issue, we're looking into it now and hope to have it fixed shortly. I'll report back here once its done, and please accept my apologies for any inconvenience this causes you.
New stock available
3 Sept 2009 | Eliot Sykes
Some of the more popular umbrellas are now back in stock in limited quantities:
Umbrella reopened - more stock coming soon
24 Aug 2009 | Eliot Sykes
Umbrella has just reopened after a long break, and related to that I have some good news and bad news.
The bad news is most of our products are currently out of stock.
The good news is we've got a handful of Fulton Birdcages still in stock (only 7 at last count) and there is more stock of all our umbrellas arriving soon in early September.
