Today's blog is all about the importance of supporting local business ... By the greatest stroke of good fortune we have finally found what we have spent 7 years searching for and only 30 minutes away! From now on Ian and Will at ClearWeb will be helping us with all of our website requirements. Not only are they friendly, helpful and immensely capable, but they are pretty much on our doorstep. Yesterday morning I had a crash-course with Will in the art of Twitter; once we have our Twitter account up and running, tweeting will be the order of the day, although I have been warned it can be addictive. If it's good enough for Clarence House to use to announce the engagement of William and Kate, it's good enough for me!
Discussions are continuing about The Spirit of Summer Show in Olympia in May - Lizzie's Shepherd's Hut in Sussex is a really exciting project that, we hope, is going to provide a central theme and the more we all talk about it, the better it gets. Lizzie and I have a shared affection for Siamese cats which is perfect really as yesterday I agreed with Will that my first "tweet" would be about pets....
Tomorrow night is our Fundraising Big Curry for the Army Benevolent Fund - slightly nerve wracking as there are now 60 people booked! The ABF do a simply amazing job of providing literature, balloons, placemats and all sorts to support The Big Curry. With a national target of £450,000 to raise this year, we will do what we can in Cliffords Mesne tomorrow night. Without the help of friends donating puddings, seedlings from their gardens and gifts of raffle prizes it would have been much harder work. Sebastian and Jack: I am really impressed with the fiendish Quiz you have devised! Here's hoping we can reach our target of £1000 and for anyone who would like to make a donation, here is a link to the main site: http://www.soldierscharity.org/
Thursday, April 07, 2011
Monday, April 04, 2011
Beestations for the Garden, Janey Lee Grace and a very rewarding Mother's Day
The last episode of the most recent "Human Planet" series on BBC was just remarkable, it made me realise just how essential the preservation of bees are to our continued existence. The aerial views of New York with literally hundreds of bee hives on roof terraces was just wonderful. The whole movement to keep bees was attributable to just one amazing man and it has made me want to keep bees myself. In yesterday's Observer newspaper was an article about Jamie Hutchinson who has produced a little Bee Station which can sit in flower beds and provide "a bee re-fuelling and nest site", so here is his website:
http://www.beestation.com/buy.html
Magniwool has been given its own website and brochure now; this unique underblanket incorporating magnetic technology is gaining quite a following and it has just had a little boost after an endorsement by Janey Lee Grace. Again, a link to her website follows and it has details of an offer relating to Magniwool...
http://www.imperfectlynatural.com/Janey_Loves/bio_protection.htm
This year Mothering Sunday was really rewarding- although it entailed driving all the way to Kent and back, to see my mother have so much enjoyment seeing her eldest grandson was an absolute pleasure. Now that he is away at university these occasions are few and far between but we all helped her apply for some tickets for next year's Olympics. Quite how the older generation can be expected to wade their way through these websites remains one of my bugbears. Never mind, with lots of youngsters to hand, we all egged each other on and got very excited planning tickets for Diving, Athletics, Mountain Biking and Dressage....
http://www.beestation.com/buy.html
Magniwool has been given its own website and brochure now; this unique underblanket incorporating magnetic technology is gaining quite a following and it has just had a little boost after an endorsement by Janey Lee Grace. Again, a link to her website follows and it has details of an offer relating to Magniwool...
http://www.imperfectlynatural.com/Janey_Loves/bio_protection.htm
This year Mothering Sunday was really rewarding- although it entailed driving all the way to Kent and back, to see my mother have so much enjoyment seeing her eldest grandson was an absolute pleasure. Now that he is away at university these occasions are few and far between but we all helped her apply for some tickets for next year's Olympics. Quite how the older generation can be expected to wade their way through these websites remains one of my bugbears. Never mind, with lots of youngsters to hand, we all egged each other on and got very excited planning tickets for Diving, Athletics, Mountain Biking and Dressage....
Friday, April 01, 2011
April "in like a lion, out like a lamb", Cologne and Cotton and another container delivery
"In like a lion, out like a lamb" is the traditional saying for April, I rather like the wool connection, so thought it could be the opener for today's blog.
We have all been beavering to get a large order of the new Junior Range prepared for Cologne and Cotton, I was hoping to get all of it sent out by the end of this week but, as is the way with these things, discovered yesterday that the print colour on the new boxes is not quite right. Back to the drawing board and a week's delay....
Yesterday we had our latest container- this time we shared with some local friends who ship vintage/classic cars from New Zealand back to the UK. It was a first for both of us and quite amazing to see the container opened up and 3 cars suspended from the ceiling! A very good example of Kiwi ingenuity at its best. No doubt it would be banned leaving from the UK like that, but it seems to work perfectly. Even better all the pillows were put inside the cars which helped protect the leather upholstery! A strange combination, but it all worked.
To end on a circular note; in yesterday's container was a wonderful load of lovely lambskins, which always prove popular and however many we order, we always seem to run out. The lovely thing about them is that everyone looks and feels different, which makes them really special gifts. Speaking of gifts, I wonder if any of my boys will think about "Mother's Day" on Sunday.....
We have all been beavering to get a large order of the new Junior Range prepared for Cologne and Cotton, I was hoping to get all of it sent out by the end of this week but, as is the way with these things, discovered yesterday that the print colour on the new boxes is not quite right. Back to the drawing board and a week's delay....
Yesterday we had our latest container- this time we shared with some local friends who ship vintage/classic cars from New Zealand back to the UK. It was a first for both of us and quite amazing to see the container opened up and 3 cars suspended from the ceiling! A very good example of Kiwi ingenuity at its best. No doubt it would be banned leaving from the UK like that, but it seems to work perfectly. Even better all the pillows were put inside the cars which helped protect the leather upholstery! A strange combination, but it all worked.
To end on a circular note; in yesterday's container was a wonderful load of lovely lambskins, which always prove popular and however many we order, we always seem to run out. The lovely thing about them is that everyone looks and feels different, which makes them really special gifts. Speaking of gifts, I wonder if any of my boys will think about "Mother's Day" on Sunday.....
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