April: unlucky for Prince, dandy for you: late April PWF van service date info, amid some pop trivia you never wanted to know...

Following on from my recent discourse pouring scorn upon TS Eliot's view of April... he might actually have been right about it being "the cruellest month". After all, it was on 21 April of last year - that epic twelvemonth of celebrity demise - that the Grim Reaper paid a visit to prolific, dimunitive pop genius Prince. A bit-part player in the tracklisting of his massive hit album Parade was the song Sometimes it Snows in April. It might have been recorded way back in 1986, but three decades later it would prove eerily prophetic - although unlike, say, John Belushi, it wasn't 'snow' that gave the pint-sized warbler the ultimate chill, but painkillers.

However, 2016 is a thing quite literally of the past, so we can turn to happier implications of April's cheerful presence. Most importantly of course, the fact that dates are now set for a late-April PWF van service from the UK to the Alps and back again. The doughty PWF van will quit our Midlands base on 25 April. Its return northwards will begin on 02 May. 

Whether it snows in April for you or not, may the month be a belter for you. 

Amiéties

Phil White on behalf of Ryan Thomas, new proprietor of: Philip White Freight

Let's get ready to trundle! Yes, it's a timely reminder of the next PWF van service...

Bon Lundi, chers Alpiniards

Well, I hope you're enjoying yourselves up there. Back in Blighty we cower by the fire, trying to avoid a wicked north-easterly wind while resisting the temptation to toss the working day off and disappear into a bottle of Scotch. Awful place. "April is the cruellest month," opined Thomas Stearns Eliot in the opening to his monumental poem The Wasteland. Fine word-shuffler he may have been, but possessed of valid opinions on the relative ghastliness of seasons he most certainly was not. Probably pissed on Scotch when he wrote it...

Still, amid all this misery there is work to be done. Therefore we issue hereby a reminder: around the last week of this parlous month the good ship (by this I mean van - poetic licence) will embark on a voyage from the UK to the Alps. It will linger there for a little while before trundling back to the gloom and despair of Her Britannic Majesty's realm.

I invite those of you unfamiliar with our fine service, we offer a door-door transport service for loads of varying shapes and sizes, as well as a handy warehouse to which suppliers can send your sofas, sanitary ware, paint, furniture various, hot tub lids, skidoo lifts (yes, really) and other marvellous paraphernalia. 

Anyhow mes amis, I must return to stoking the fire and studiously avoiding the whisky bottle. Bon ski, tous!

Regards

Ryan Thomas

PWF

Remember, remember, the middle of November... because that's when the next PWF van service will be.

Bon Vendredi, chers amis


As I type the PWF van is trundling around the Alps dispensing knick nacks, furniture, paint, rugs and ooh, much, much more. But time, tide and the growing pile of stuff in our UK warehouse wait for no van - so thoughts turn to the next service.


This will leave the UK around 14/15 November, getting to the Alps shortly afterwards. Upwards dates aren't yet set, but obviously it will return unto the UK after a brief rest.

Alors, mes braves, bon weekend. See you in Cyberspace.


Keep on keeping on...



Regards


Phil White

Philip White Freight

Well, October isn't over - announcing the second Philip White Freight service this month.

Bonjour, Alpiniards tous.


Well, I'm just back from the Alps and looking at a lovely blue Dorset sky. I've hung my duvet jacket up in the cupboard, as I shan't be needing it for a few weeks. It was seeing service in France though, oh yes. Personally I'm a smidge perturbed by the sudden onset of what feels like November in the Alps. Nobody wants winter to descend early, like a drunk and vengeant ice queen with no access to a diary - not while there's building work to be done, that is.


In a scandalously roundabout way I'm trying to say something simple: think ahead this year, mes amis. If the doomy mutterings of the guides are right, schnee, sturm und drang could be with us sooner than we think. All of which are no help to us here at Philip White Freight.


Therefore please take ye note - the second October service looks set to quit the balmy climes of Dorzzett around 22 Oct, and head your way. As always, we offer both a door-door service and the use of our fine warehouse, wherein suppliers can despatch your ordered goods.
Alors, a bientot, chers amis. Wrap up warm.




Regards


Phil White

Philip White Freight

Keep calm and trundleth on - Philip White Freight, new service date.

Bonjour, mes braves.

Well, should I hear another crapulous opinion regarding impending Brexit echo about the historic streets of Dorchester I fear for my sanity, so I've retreated to the sanctity of the PWF office. Tempted though I am to rock gently to and fro with hands clapped to my ears, it occurs to me that there is communication to be done. So accordingly, to some degree in the style of our very own (idiotic opinion-free on Brexit, thank the good lordy) town crier, who I encountered earlier:

Hear ye, hear ye, the Philip White Freight van shalt leave the Alps around 26 July - which is little more than a week away, so getteth thine skates on. It will come up to the UK, do its usual act of trundling around unloading and reloading, then head back to the Alps at the end of the week. If you would like its cargo to include something of yours, please get in touch.

Alors, I bid you ye olde bonsoir.

Phil White

Philip White Freight

Ah, Christmas... Yuletide cheer, Boxing Day sales, Philip White Freight, and you.

WELL, Philip White Freight Towers was the scene of an impressively calm and low-key Christmas day. Which after the full-bore nature of recent months was precisely what common sense dictated. So from this point of serenity may I wish you one and all, the merriest of festive seasons. And, to quote the tipsy bloke who wandered past our window yesterday night in a happy, shouty mood, "Happy Birthday Jesus, mate".

A modern Christmas is on one hand a celebration with its roots in idolatry both pagan and Christian. On another, it's the totem around which families traditionally gather, for a few days of psychological ferment and/or warm togetherness. Accordingly, we're off to Leigh on Sea later today, for a gathering of the PWF clan. Based as we are in Dorset this will involve passing both Bluewater and Lakeside shopping mega-malls, which reminds me that Christmas is also home to Boxing Day (and onwards) sales. Which brings me to you, chers Alpiniards...

…because, should a sale either real or online locate the sofa of your dreams, bathroom suite of your deepest desires or any of the myriad and often astounding objets that wing their way to the Alps under our care, let it be known that a couple of PWF services will be available during January to relocate them to chez vous. Our Dorset warehouse stands ready to receive, or indeed we can operate a door-door kinda service.

Danny Boy responding to Broadsword: Philip White Freight is back in the office! With November service dates at hand…

CHERS amis

Over the last few days Philip White Freight has been much on the road. Consequently we have been little in the office. To those of you feeling the chill of neglect, we apologise profusely. Yesterday at 10.30pm, after a 19.5-hour day, it was either you lot or a G&T. Guess which won…

Suffice to say that having cured its ills with gin and sleep, PWF is all attentive service once more - wading stoically through the inbox and supplying transport solutions ("cunning plans", in local parlance) with our usual insouciance and questionable charm.

To whit, the next service will leave the UK on 03 Nov, getting to the Alps a couple of days later. Another couple of days on, it will return to the UK.

'Tis the season to be ordering things for chalet refurbs, furniture for the winter season and all the other stuff with which you so constantly amaze and surprise us. Therefore the PWF warehouse in Dorset is at your disposal as a delivery destination - unless of course you want us to pick things up from a private or commercial address. We're flexible like that, you see.