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.

WAY back when, we were involved with the reconstruction of an Italian farmhouse. So I was neither fazed nor surprised when a client called me yesterday with news: his Italian build is running late, moving his moving-in date somewhat.

Why, I guess you're wondering, should you care? Because if you were thinking of sending something on the PWF van service setting off tomorrow, but were too late to get it together, you've now got until Friday (02 Oct). I've had a happy rearrange in my diary. The service will deliver and pick up things in the Alps over the weekend, then return to Britain untroubled by any need to trundle into Italy. Meraviglioso!

In the meantime I'm off to attack parts of the To Do list that thought they'd got away with remaining undisturbed, and possibly even give the abject filth of PWF Towers a bit of a vacuum.

Buona giornata, tutti!

Phil White
Philip White Freight

Pour qui ca concerne: Philip White Freight's almost dead pig-free early October van service bulletin.

WELL, bonsoir, chers Alpiniards tous.

As our beloved leader heads to the doctor to seek a cure for the severe case of pork scratchings his friend Mr Ashcroft has given him, thoughts at PWF Towers turn away from the tawdry goings-on up in Westminster. Such things are beneath our notice, as we have Octobre to consider (and they're not our style, anyway).

While an assault on the rump of the month remains unplanned (although it will surely see action, hungry old thing that it is), its gaping maw will see us drive right on in. For the next PWF van service will quit our West-country bastion on Tuesday 29 Sept. It'll trot into the Alps on Thurs 01 Oct. On 04 Oct, shunning the glare of publicity, it shall head right on back to good old Blighty. 


Our Dorset warehouse awaits the bi-fold doors, bathroom hardware, sofas, paint, plumbing equipment and gammon joints that may or may not constitute your (or your builder's) heart's desire.

A bientot, mes amis. I'm off to the Boar's Head...

Erm...

Hmm.

Phil White
Philip White Freight

That Philip White of whom you speak, he'll be down next week - July van service reminder

'ALLO. And indeed, 'allo.

Disclosing an unusually organised communications strategy, this follows last week's two-week warning. The PWF van will leave home on 13 July (next Monday). It has a few pickups to make in Blighty, and will trundle into the Alpine vastness early on 15 July. After a couple of days' work, it will head back to the UK, hoping like mad that MyFerryLink staff don't take it into their heads to set the channel tunnel afire once more.

The super-marvellous PWF warehouse here in scenic Dorset is at your disposal should you go shopping (a client has found a source of cheap Smeg fridges. Let us rejoice!), and the paint emporia of Dorchester are available if you're in decorating mode. Or we can work for you in a door-to-door kind of way.

Alas, while the Met Office threatened rain today the benificent microclimate of this lovely place means the clouds floateth dryly away to tiddle on somewhere further East. So must I with heavy heart take my leave of you, and go water the allotment after all. Bugger.

A bientot, chers Alpiniards.

Phil White

Philip White Freight