Live and Kicking!

So finally the website has gone live!! I'm really excited about the fact that we are going out into the world

Monday we went to the Speciality and Fine Food festival at Olympia in London - we are passionate about finding interesting, UK based suppliers with delicious products - not necessarily award winning but if they have then so much the better! I went with the mission to find an additional chocolate supplier, Christmas puddings and cakes and something interesting.... It was really worthwhile going but my poor tummy afterwards - after eating lots of sweet things, I then had to have some sour stuff with chillis in etc and then back to the sweet, then some ham just because it looked delicious (and it was) How we suffered for our art

There were so many different trade stands there, some from France, some from very large companies and some from small independent businesses like ourselves. It is a hard life but I tried about 10 different chocolate companies and finally decided on Davenports Chocolates a small business based in Newcastle, the chocolates are created by Artisan Chocalatier Jane Williams and the chocolate taste is just outstanding as well as looking incredibley pretty- I've ordered some and as these are made by hand just for us they will be arriving in a week or so. I am really looking forward to getting them in the shop and online and getting the response from our customers

I'm yet to 100% make my mind up about the Christmas puddings - I've made a short list of 3 and I shall be having the folks over for dinner for the final blind taste and decision (don't tell anyone, but I don't really like Christmas pudding and therefore need assistance from my willing volunteers) It will be a bit like the X Factor but with more fruit - mind you some of the contestants are 100% fruit loops

We recently had a customer come into the shop and tell us that they had recently been to America and that we should definitely stock candied crickets, maggots and beetles as people in Odiham would buy them. Now maybe I'm missing a trick here but some people can find chilli chocolate and salted caramel a step too far so I think I can categorically say that we will never be stocking creepy crawlie - Yuk!!!!!


The hot baby news is that our pug is "probably" pregnant with at least one puglet - it does mean that I can't go to a friends wedding and I'm not really looking forward to waking up every 2 hours just to feed them, however I am sure it will all be worth it in the end.

I was hoping to go to the gym today to work off all the food from Monday but I forgot my trainer! Oh well, looks like I will just have to think about it - they do say it's the thought that counts?