Baskets Galore Ireland

January really isn’t the best of months for a lot of people. After the Christmas & New Year festivities have finished it is back to the daily grindstone, with what seems like nothing to look forward to. I've recently noticed a lot of friends & colleagues starting to book holidays or trips away. This winter also lead to a lot of flu going around. Almost everyone seemed to be inflicted with some strain of sickness or the cold. Pay Day has also been a long time coming, but we are almost there now! At least the snow & ice have stayed away for a while. January is so bad in fact that ‘Blue Monday’ occurs! Blue Monday is meant to be the most depressing day of the year according to psychologists. This date allegedly falls on the Monday of the last full week of January. So it was the 19th January in 2000 & the 18th January in 2010. There has been some confusion over the date in 2011 with some claiming it was on 17th January 2011, while others say Blue Monday was on 24th Janu...

Happy 2011 & a big thank you to all our customers for shopping with BasketsGalore last year & throughout the years! Christmas 2010 was certainly a challenge as we experienced some of the most extreme weather conditions ever faced across the UK & Ireland. The snow, ice & sub-zero temperatures experienced throughout December grounded flights, closed rail links and left traffic at a standstill. Read more here . At BasketsGalore we managed to keep dispatching all your Christmas gifts , despite nearly getting snowed in on a couple of occasions. A Thunder-Snow storm hit (a thunder & lightning storm with snow rather than rain – a rare phenomenon apparently) & we had to dig our cars out to get home (pictures to follow soon!) Some of our suppliers couldn’t reach our premises to deliver new stock, so we had to greet them at the top of the road & carry boxes through the snow. Obviously after we dispatch our gift baskets, they need to be delivered to the end recipient b...

Hello to all our customers in Ireland. Merry Christmas. As you know our gift baskets and hampers are extremely distinctive. Its the combination of freshly baked items, salmon and hams which sets a Basketsgalore Hamper apart from any other hamper in the European market. So although it may sound terribly boring, we thought our customers would like to know shelf lives of some of the more perishable items. For Hampers being dispatched today with salmon, chicken or duck, the Best Before Dates are as follows. Remember these are the earliest dates. New stock is arriving constantly which will extend these lives by several days. Hampers with Organic Salmon 200g 31/12/2010 Hampers with Organic Salmon 500g 31/12/2010 Ummera Duck Breast 9/1/2010 Chicken Crown 3/1/2010 If your Hamper contains ham then the Best Before Date at earliest will be: Montelieri Ham 120g 9/2/2010 Brady Family Traditional Glazed 28/2/2010 Brady Family 1/2kg Unboned Carving Ham 31/12/2010 Brady Family Traditional Sliced Ham...

All I Want For Christmas Is..... At BasketsGalore we run a monthly competition to win a fantastic free gift basket! All you have to do to enter is "like" us on Facebook ! We then pick a number of fans at random & come up with an inventive way to pick the lucky winner. So far we have had a darts competition and a scary halloween draw of catching chocolate spiders and dunking for apples For the Christmas Competition we have decided to do things a little differently. This month, as well as being a fan, you simply have to write on our wall "All I want for Christmas is..." and include a link to your favourite BasketsGalore hamper or gift basket. It can be a Christmas hamper or some people are picking pamper gift baskets or all year round gifts As well as including the link to your favourite gift hamper, remember to tell us why you deserve to win. Be creative, as our favourite post(s)/comment(s) will win their chosen gift! We will announce the lucky winner(s) in m...

Ho ho ho, it is definitely that time of year when our annual newsletter goes out! Yes only 36 days til Christmas now. We sent an email update last week to let all our lovely customers know our 2010 Christmas gift baskets are available to order now! Just because you order now, doesn't mean your gift will be shipped now. You can pick the special Christmas delivery option & also a preferred delivery date using the calendar at checkout. We try to stick as closely as possible to your preferred date, but generally operate by delivery week in December. Wk 1 is the week beginning 29th November Wk 2 is the week beginning 6th December Wk 3 is the week beginning 13th December Wk 4 is the week beginning 20th December So if you pick a preferred date of 9th December, we will aim to dispatch your hamper during Week 2 (6th-10th Dec). We hope you understand with SO many hampers being dispatched during a short period of time it can be difficult to deliver on exact dates at this time of year. G...