Hello 🙂
It’s been a busy few weeks in the shop so I haven’t found any time to be able to blog recently in spite of still being fairly immobile! Ali has been an absolute angel in running me around everywhere I’ve needed to go and I know she’ll be as relieved as I am when I’m allowed to walk again. My tag of the Running Cheesemaker has had to be put on pause whilst I’ve been recovering from the surgery but I am determined to be able to get back to running as soon as I can. My netball career is over though as that’s one sport which has been vetoed by the surgeon. I’ll still be involved with my team on the sidelines but I’ll definitely miss being on court. But the positive news is that I go back to for x-rays next week and as long as the bones have all fused correctly then I’ll be allowed to put weight through the joint again. It’s been a long few weeks and the last two have definitely crawled along but the end is now hopefully in sight.
So what cheesy news from us in Pangbourne…?
Last week Ali and I went along to the Guild of Fine Food’s new London office in Borough, which is a fabulous space (and available for hire I’m led to believe…). They were hosting an Academy of Cheese training session for cheesemongers. The Academy of Cheese is a new organisation which is the brain child of a group of cheese enthusiasts led by the queen of cheese herself, Mary Quicke. It is designed to establish an educational programme to promote cheese and to create a Master of Cheese award. The day ended with us sitting an exam to gain our level 1 accreditation. Luckily we both passed the exam first time otherwise it would have been exceedingly embarrassing!
Our new website is also starting to take shape and we’re hoping that it will go live in the next week or so. We’ve been taking multiple photos of the shop as well as taking individual shots of each and every cheese…which at 120+ cheeses takes a while! It’s looking good though and we’re very excited about customers being able to buy great cheese online.
And finally…we’re very excited that we’ve been nominated for an award ? One of our customers has put us forward for The Great British Cheese Awards, which is very lovely. It’s an online voting competition and we’re up against some really top retailers so we would very much appreciate your vote! Just go to www.greatbritishchefs.com/cheese-awards/voting