WOW , Ive just noticed the best thing ever about working late, the light in my store room where we do the vac packing causes moths n bugs to fly closer outside the window , which causes the bats round here to swoop ‘n’ dive outside the windo (we’re 4 floors up lol), its a truly awsome and very cool thing to watch when your doing a monotonous job like vac sealing bags .
Finish the first batch of “Maybe The Hottest Jerky In The World this w/end, super-bleedin-spicy lol, made from the Naga-bin Jolokia which is 3 time the strength of a sctoch bonnet, its a truly mouth watering experience , went down quite well at our local farmers market so thats a good thing, to farmers markets this weekend both went ok , glorious weather .
As we have a Colonel Kilgore’s Napalm Surprise jerky which is the smoked version of the spicy Im considering smoking half of the SUPER spicy and calling it Dr Strangeloves Atomic Experience, will have to think about that , will have to smoke some tomorrow and see how it goes, well, back to vacuum sealing , only another 1113 bags left to do tonight .
What an great weekend, we were at Cosmeston Medieval Village www.valeofgamorgan.gov.uk/cosmeston for the me the battle weekend, the rising of the welsh against the english in the 14th century (the english lost again 2 tries to 1, you had to be there to see the scrummage with the head of the english champion between the english army and the welsh army lol) .Really nice weather no snow or hail at last it was nice to dress in a tshirt in the evening for a change!!!!
Trade was brisk which is always nice and met loads of people we havent seen since last year, also helped marshal the battle on saturday and played possibly the worst trick ever on a friend, wont go into to much detail but it involved him being dead on the floor and me going to give someone water who was overheating in their armour slightly so I took the shortest route, stepping over his head just after calling his name so he looked up ( evil smily here sorry, sam) ( and pete) ( and dave)(and nige).
It really was the best show we have attended this year and I cant wait till next bank holiday (may 25/26) , the multi period with greeks to napolaonics to 1879 and of course the muddy evils.
One of the finest moment of the weekend was walking around the lake to the adventure play ground at about 2 in the morning on Sunday night, though felt a lil “tired and emotional” on the monday morning and suzie had to coddle me a little.
Having a day off to day, though feeling slightly guilty about not going out in the garden to relax in the sunshine but there are 2 more levels to do on Call of Duty 4 so its a darkened room, a pot of tea , pint of milk and a packet of choccy biccys for, Ive been out since thursday in the fresh air lol
Today we received OFCOM’s decision regarding our complaints about the editing of the episode of Dragons Den we did, we can now openly say what we complained about ,in the studio when the Dragons were opting out of the oppotunity to invest Mr Peter Jones was very polite, he pointed out that while its a “family lifestyle business” and a “good product” he cant see it being a big enough investment for him to want to be involved in, all the while he was polite, positive and friendly, which is why I responded politely etc, when it was aired on BBC 1 he was edited in such a way that he was aggresive, rude and very dismissive of our business and efforts over the last 3 years, yeat we were shown still being polite etc, had he spoken to me that way in the studio I would have responded very differently indeed, I would not have been rude or aggresive but I definatly would not have been so positively polite to him .There are a few little other “editorial” decisions, its not his fault the way it was edited but its the fault of the editors of the programme, also we were constantly and activley encouraged to dress as we normaly do, as was shown on the programme, yet we feel now that we were being led onto the programme simply to be mocked, we would have done it anyway but still feel that our business is not what we were on there for, so unfortunatly OFCOM have decided that its OK for people to say something to you and then have it re-edited so what was said to you in person has been rejigged in such a way that while the gist of what was said to you is the same but in a far more aggresive way than it was origionaly, we have been told we can appeal, which we fully intend to do.
A bit dissapointed to say the least but I suppose if you dip your toes in the world of cheap entertainment that is a risk you take, doubt I’ll ever really believe owt I see on TV again ( though I very rarely did before but thought that Dragons Den was a programme about business not the Business X Factor it seems to have turned into cheap and sleazy TV) we’re very disappointed in the decision to say the least but will not just sit back until we have explored every other avenue.