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Last week I spoke to a flower distributor based in Huntingdon who supplies the supermarkets with flowers they import from Kenya, Ecuador...

I’ve got the French TV crew visiting on Tuesday, and I’ve been painting and tidying for what seems like weeks. I remember my old boss at...

Yesterday at 5.00 am, I drove into town to collect flowers from a fundraiser at Old Billingsgate near Tower Bridge. Billingsgate proper,...

As well as it being the Jubilee this weekend it’s also the Jewish festival of Shavuot which commemorates Moses receiving the 10...

On Friday, I visited a glorious supported housing block, ‘Trees’, off North Hill in Highgate, to deliver an activity. Amanda, the...

On Wednesday, I collected the most beautiful flowers from a Google event at the Georgian 5-star retreat, The Grove, near Watford (see my...

I used last week’s Magic Mike flowers on Monday afternoon to make bedside arrangements with elderly bed-bound residents in Jewish Care’s...

Late on Bank Holiday Monday afternoon, I received a phone call from Roz asking if I could handle surplus flowers from an event in I could...

This week, through CommUNITY Barnet, I was put in touch with Event cycle, an organisation that disposes of surplus from events got in...

This week has been dominated by the collection and despatch of surplus flowers from last weekend’s Easter/Ramadan and Passover...

On Thursday it was the 551st anniversary of the Battle of Barnet, a decisive battle in the War of the Roses and the only battle to be...

Yesterday after days of feverish tidying, numerous trips to the tip, the creation by the marvellous Mary of a jungle wall I welcomed Jeff...

Apologies for the late sending of my weekly blog but the combination of the clock going forward and long list of Mother’s Day orders left...

The glorious weather brought out the brides yesterday, and we’ve now got bookings throughout the year with two on the same weekend in...

Tuesday, March 8th, was International Women’s Day, and we were swamped serving customers all day from Romania, Poland, Russia and Italy....

The world is incredibly grim at the moment but there have been wonderful moments this week - my birthday on Monday brought annual...

The seasonal deluge of daffodils continued this week and I’ve donated them to luncheon clubs, the East Barnet Food Hub, the socially...

It’s been a crazy old week starting on Monday with Valentine’s Day. We were inundated with daffodils and the lovesick and I couldn’t have...

It’s been rather a tumultuous week which began with an email on Monday from our old friends the 3rd Party Utility Broker UK Direct...

Amongst other things this week we were focussed on making decorations for the opening of High Barnet’s first dog café, Nika. Whenever...