After recovering from visiting yet another trade fair, I got back to work pronto and buried myself in recruitment and flour.
Friday came- meeting in London so off I trotted on the long drive and tube journey to Victoria. Morning meeting came and went, deposited Biscotti with the the lovely web team at Mountain Warehouse http://www.mountainwarehouse.com/, new Head Office is lovely, brilliantly branded, and the Rocky RollerCoaster was a hit!
An opportunity to meet up with Marcus Carter 
http://www.vfmuk.com/ and hand over the next order, as well as take along samples of new products was too good to miss, so off we went to Pret. Great to hear exciting updates from Marcus, and get some advice...love VFM, if you don't know it, you need to- so get online! An excellent way of shopping and meeting the producers as well as getting the personal touch. PS- I am under 'Bakery'!!!What to do next? Well, so close, would be rude not to go to Fortnum and Mason http://www.fortnumandmason.com/ and have a look, also-
Twitter colleague Laura Amos of http://www.thedessertdeli.co.uk/ sells there and I was dying to see her products- look just as delicious as on her website! I visited the The Fountain, where I was served a very nice glass of Chablis, and ordered a Chocolate Panacotta with Caramelised Orange Syrup...mmm, divine.
Fortnums is all set for Halloween, reflected in their windows and instore displays, tables full of orange and black goodies.Following on, I walked up Regent St, visiting all of my old haunts, wistfully remembering how it was when I worked there in my teens. Stop-Anthroplogie http://www.anthropologie.com/!!! My very talented friend Jo Jo, and her partner Tanya, with very successful http://www.bettyandbetts.com/ are due to launch some of their Betty books there on Saturday 2nd October, so in I went to have a look...beautiful store. Mostly fascinated by their rainforest-like wall and colourful chandeliers.
A bit of shopping, all for Sprog, and I set off home.
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