s’been awhile since my last post because my PC must have taken umbrage with a previous post as it wouldnt let me in to make a post LOL,luckily Phil made it better and now I can post again, s’been a busy week, suzie did the Real Food Show at Earls Court, yet again another financial disaster, it cost more to do the show than she actually took, but if you have 500 producers in one place and the entry fee is £20 I suppose thats only to be expecte( though it was well run etc and the gala night for the traders was great apparently ) ,most of the traders suzie spoke to all said the same thing, some good contacts were made but overall not a good weekend, I on the other hand , went to the Mid Wales Mouthful in Builth Wells, a well organised lovely show with incedibly helpful staff ( 3 cheers for you guys) with Anthony Worral Thompson doing displays on the Saturday and local Young Farmers having a cookery competion on the sunday, though IMHO it would be better as a one day food show or have a different celeb chef for the sunday as there was a marked difference in trading on the Sunday, all in all though a show that will go from strengh to strengh in the future,

Getting geared up for this weekend, Suzie is at Margam Park doing Fortress Wales which is a multi period reenactment and Im at Cosmeston Medieval Village in Penarth doing the Battle Weekend (the uprising of the Welsh against the English, guess we English lose again just like bloody rugby lol, ho hum )

Will post pics as soon as I have em of Rob who gave me invaluable help at Builth.

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YAHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! got the results from the labs we sent our jerky and fruit leathers to, we can now put 12 months on the sell by date finally YAY !!!!!!! though the happiness was slightly tinged by yet another person ringing us to tell us that Dragons Den is being re-run on Sky, no probs with that but we’re bloody furious that they are using me, suzie n John as the advert, no other participents for the last series, just us, and doing their utmost to make us look stupid in the process, as they were certain our appearance was ridiculous and no good for business it sucks that they think its OK for advertising their programme, OFCOM told me yesterday that we should have their findings about our complaint about misrepresentation next week,if they find in our favour we will be contacting the production team for their response before we decide what the next step to take. Watch this space .

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We’ve recovered after a very busy weekend, we did the Food Food Food show at Llantrwyd Wells on Saturday which was a great show, will definatly do it next year twas well organised, well run with some very interesting cooking displays (which we were trading right next to so got a sample dish of each display done through out the day ), unfortunatly financially it wasnt great , the same can also be said of both the markets we did on sundat, suzie ‘n’ daisy went to Swansea whilst I went to Cardiff, even though the weather was good and we werent competing with a major sports event both markets were quite poor for us, is it the “credit crunch ” ? god I hate that term lol, is it the “recession” we’re talking ourselves into ? who knows ? still, bought a half lamb from the FFF show, then won almost half a lamb in the raffle at the end, as I say a cracking little show with a great drive through the heart of the Beacons to get to and cant wait till next year.

Found a 25 kilo sack of hemp seed in the store room I bought last year to try hemp seed fruit leathers with, they didnt work very well but today Im making

Honied Hemp ‘n Sesame Cluster : hemp and sesame seeds raosted then mixed with honey and spicys then smoked

Oak Smoked Hemp Seeds: roasted hemp seeds mixed with lemon pepper, spicys and herbs then smoked

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If anyone is interested and in the area Suzie will be at Wallys today in Cardiff with a small table doing tatsers to get people used to real jerky and not the mass produced pap thats currently available generally in shops lol whilst I stay at home and try and “organise” our stock room into some semblence of order, tis a bit of a mess but given enough fresh coffee and toast Im sure I shall have it done by……………………….well at least this weekend . Incidentaly we’re trading at Food Food Food fair at LLantwryd Wells which is held at the Drovers Rest, will post pics of our new and tarted up stall after the market

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