Stratford Food Festival

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It's prep time again this week for our next show - The Stratford Food Festival which is taking place in the heart of Stratford Upon Avon. On for 3 days - Fri / Sat / Sun, from 9 - 5.30, it promises to be a great show.
I spent a few hours this morning making up new hampers ready, as well as some of our new mini hampers. Our beeswax pots look like lovely egg yolks when they are nestling in the wood straw. The wood straw is a bit lethal though, as you do tend to get a few bits digging into your fingers when you try to rip it from the bale. Gert has got very intolerant of me doing anything other than sitting at my desk, and leaves the office in a huff as soon as I start rustling. Needless to say she was not a fan of the hairdryer when I was shrink wrapping the cellophane.
After our mini eco break at The Scarlet last week, my session with Sharon at BFFA I know is not going to be easy this week - it's not that I've been taking it easy - shovelling gravel does wonders for your abs and biceps, but I know I am woefully unprepared for my forms.
As you know I like to share any online gems I come across, and I was very impressed by the service I got recently from The Big Plant Nursery, in West Sussex. I was after 3 architecturally shaped plants, (I don't do names!), so I picked out a few I liked the look of on their website. The exact ones I chose were not in stock at the time, but they quickly sent me pics of the exact plants they could send me, complete with model(ok the bloke who had dug them up!). They arrived within a few days, and they've even managed to survive my adhoc plant care!
So check out their website if you ever need instant gardening: www.bigplantnursery.co.uk