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Our first trade show @topdrawerlondon #olympia for

Our first trade show @topdrawerlondon #olympia for the next 3 days, here’s our little stand… U41 in food area

It’s been a while, lots of bird activity to repo

It’s been a while, lots of bird activity to report…

For the last few months we have been crazy busy, moving offices, buying and selling houses, now we are back, settled in and raring to go for the Autumn Winter.

Exciting news - we have new bird eggs, thanks to @madeleinefloyddesign studio - appearances from the shy #nightingale, as requested by @kneppwildingkitchen and to add to the #stork and #turtledoves which they have so successfully nurtured.

Other birds featured, the beloved #barnowl, and the #swift, which we have enjoyed watching reeling above our new home near #burgesspark . We have even installed a special swift box from @cj_wildlife and hoping that next year the swifts might find it and raise some young here.

The #lovebirds have been such a favourite, so we have gone wild and created the rainbow version based on the African Lovebird.

Finally for those who have American affiliations, the #robin (which is actually a thrush) is a bit different to our wee bird, and made an appearance in the original 1964 Disney Mary Poppins as a clunky wind-up bird at the window, singing to Mary.

For the #redparty - we have a #redcardinal for the #blueparty a #bluejay and for those who don’t want to engage in politics we have the wise #baldeagle

Anyone around from 8th-10th September - we are exhibiting @topdrawerlondon #olympia - please come by and say hello, online registration/free tickets

Instagram post 18132231898359598

Instagram post 18132231898359598

Today would have been my dear mother Sybil’s 98t

Today would have been my dear mother Sybil’s 98th birthday, she almost made it to 95. She taught me much, I didn’t realise at the time how much I had absorbed until recently when I was able to identify 4 wild flowers growing in Iceland. Her great Aunt Ada walked her to primary school along remote country lanes during the depression, about an hour each way on the Shropshire/Welsh borders, they lived in a house with no electricity or running water. They did have a wireless valve radio powered by a big battery. Ada taught young Sybil the names of all the wildflowers and birds and this remained an abiding passion all her life.

Today I picked this bunch of sweet peas which grew on my roof terrace, they have been very late this year, and I was very happy to pick this small bunch to celebrate her birthday.

I count my blessings to have had such a kind & grounded mother who always encouraged us to do our best, she did not believe in hothousing kids, didn’t care about exam results, she was just quietly nurturing, encouraging and not judging.

Thank you Sybil

Thanks also to @robbiehoney for the beautiful housewarming gift of sweet peas which he planted 3 months ago @sarahravenperchhill @sarahravensgarden

Magical puffin moment

Magical puffin moment

Good morning #puffins #Haemay #Iceland

Good morning #puffins #Haemay #Iceland

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!! This movie was made in Ap

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!! This movie was made in April 2024 it shows the land after the December FLOODS washed away huge chunks of land and BEFORE the storm, when the mango tree was already unstable, here we have Mr William September Farm Managing Partner of Grococoa land talking about the climate challenges we face.

Here is my summary of telephone conversation yesterday with William

“Firstly we give thanks that no lives have been lost.
The impact of Hurricane Beryl has been very, very bad. The whole village of St Patricks and the region of Hermitage has been badly damaged, after the eye of the storm completely flattened our neighbouring island of Carriacou. 75% of all the cocoa trees on the farm have been uprooted. The large mango tree beside the Mott Green Memorial Bridge has fallen over, the roots form part of the integral structure of the bridge foundations. I am very concerned that it might undermine the bridge, then we will have no access to the land.
I am going to get a crew together with chain saws so we can clear the land and plant new trees, this will cost money and may need heavy machinery.
It may take 5 years for the cocoa to be back to full productivity.
I personally feel very shaken when I see the impact of the hurricane of the people and the land,”

We desperately need to do the work to protect the land.

We are currently raising funds to pay for this work, especially for the #gubbionbaskets needed to fill with stones, they are not very expensive.
If you would like to support directly, please DM

#ClimateChange #hurricaneberyl #grenada🇬🇩 #hermitagestpatricks #stpatricks

URGENT! GRENADA DISASTER RELIEF FUND ACTIVATED Fr

URGENT!
GRENADA DISASTER RELIEF FUND ACTIVATED
From the High Commissioner for Grenada,
"I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude for your ongoing support to the people of Grenada, Carriacou, and Petite Martinique, especially during challenging times such as Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and the Covid-19 pandemic in 2019.
For full letter see link:
https://grenada-highcommission.co.uk/grenada-highcommission-blog/2024/07/03/grenada-disaster-relief-fund-activated-4/

For donations from the UK
For UK Donations
Grenada Disaster Relief Fund Account Name: Grenada Disaster Relief Fund Account number: 00584503 Sort Code: 30-92-83
For International Donations
Beneficiary: Grenada High Commission Address: 417 North End Road, London, SW6 1NS Bank Name: Lloyds Account Name: Grenada Disaster Relief Fund Account number: 00584503 Sort Code: 30-92-83 IBAN: GB95LOYD30928300584503 BIC: LOYDGB21303
GoFundMe
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebuild-grenada-carriacou-pm-hurricane-relief-fund?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=customer&utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_ft&attribution_id=sl:3bbaca28-8b46-43ed-ac90-4acd9c9283f5

We have donated these bars to:
Heritage Day scheduled for July 6th at Perth Road Playing Field, White Hart Lane, Wood Green, N22 5QJ. We will be prepared to accept financial donations there, and to provide additional information on the shipment of food and other items to Grenada. I encourage you to share this message as far and wide with anyone willing to support. Collaboratively let us all do our part to help rebuild our nation and assist our fellow Grenadians.
Should you require any additional information, please feel free to contact the Mission at office@grenada-highcommission.co.uk or call +44 (0) 2073854415/+44 (0) 7375330696.

Sorry we missed this day, we were celebrating the

Sorry we missed this day, we were celebrating the midsummer with dear friends in the west country. Happy that the sun shone on The Fisherman's Birthday celebrations in London and here is one happy winner of @grenadachocolate bars @nutmegmacespiceuk

Father’s Day: Dads & Beards Celebrating the men

Father’s Day: Dads & Beards

Celebrating the men in our lives: past, present and future.

This year my family will be celebrating our father Anthony Coady’s 100th anniversary.

He would have been delighted to see that his
grandson Cesar has just become a father to a beautiful baby girl named in honour of her great grandmother, and our mother, Sybil.

Looking through some old photos, we found this great one of Tony, sporting a beard. He had just made a long road trip in the early 1970s, driving from London east through Europe, Turkey, Syria and Iraq, to Kuwait. On the left is my nephew Cesar who, while inheriting the family genes, some people say is a dead ringer for the brilliant Spanish chef Jose Pizarro...

The love of good food eaten with as a family continues through the generations, and Cesar is walking the talk with his Ice Kitchen products, creating “fresh” green Thai curry sticks among others, he will be launching his new range soon.

It is with a heavy heart that I share the news tha

It is with a heavy heart that I share the news that Edmond Brown, founder of the Grenada Chocolate Company, departed this world today.

Thank you for all you did to inspire us and move the world of tree to bar making forward so radically.

RIP Edmond, here’s to you meeting with Doug Browne and Mott Green on the other side and talking revolutionary chocolate.

One love

Remembering #mottgreen on the anniversary of his d

Remembering #mottgreen on the anniversary of his death, 11 years ago today. A photo taken some years back with the late great Rawlyns Smith, who left us in April. @grenadachocolate still going strong, we all miss him so much. His kindness & generosity, his devotion to #chocolate. His pure genius & love of tinkering. One of his favourite expressions to demonstrate his aethiesm was “by the Grace of Chocolate”. We’ll be lighting a candle a raising a glass

Instagram post 18030406715308026

Instagram post 18030406715308026

We’ve finally moved into our beautiful new home

We’ve finally moved into our beautiful new home today, couldn’t be happier. Still lots of unpacking to do. Grateful to have a permanent home after the last few years of turmoil

Parting is such sweet sorrow. Until the next time

Parting is such sweet sorrow. Until the next time #grenada🇬🇩 #Sauteurs #grenada50thindependence

Wishing Edmond Brown a very happy birthday. The la

Wishing Edmond Brown a very happy birthday.
The last of the three founders of @grenadachocolate

Celebrating with you on our cocoa farm today

Many happy returns & wishing you above all joy, good health, and appetite

#Family
#friends
#grenada
#hermitagestpatricks
#muttonstew

Instagram post 18011067800369039

Instagram post 18011067800369039

We are at the Duke of York market today until 4pm

We are at the Duke of York market today until 4pm
Come get your Easter eggs

Lovely that our Song Thrush eggs are featured in @

Lovely that our Song Thrush eggs are featured in @holly.co Easter collection - they have such beautiful things, mostly from very small women led businesses, proud to be working with the amazing @hollytucker who is such a force of nature and a force for good. Happy Easter

One of my favourite haunts by the sea in hidden aw

One of my favourite haunts by the sea in hidden away close to Deal, on the Kent coast, on a clear evening you can see France.

This is where I go to breathe the sea air, no matter the weather, this weekend was mixed, we walked in the rain to the local pub, the Zetland Arms for a really good coffee. Sunday lunch next time! Good beer and wine available…

Sea Captain & log fire @TheZealandkingsdown

The fennel which I will forage later in the year is emerging as fresh green fronds

Wild Grape hyacinths

Blackthorn blossom, reminds me of @blackthornsalt another of my favourite ingredients, harvested from Scottish sea water on the Ayrshire coast.

Room with a view thank you dear Judy, the kindest of friends…

#foraging
#timeout
#seaair
#fennel
#seasalt
#muscari
#kent

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chocolatedetective

Our first trade show @topdrawerlondon #olympia for

Our first trade show @topdrawerlondon #olympia for the next 3 days, here’s our little stand… U41 in food area

It’s been a while, lots of bird activity to repo

It’s been a while, lots of bird activity to report…

For the last few months we have been crazy busy, moving offices, buying and selling houses, now we are back, settled in and raring to go for the Autumn Winter.

Exciting news - we have new bird eggs, thanks to @madeleinefloyddesign studio - appearances from the shy #nightingale, as requested by @kneppwildingkitchen and to add to the #stork and #turtledoves which they have so successfully nurtured.

Other birds featured, the beloved #barnowl, and the #swift, which we have enjoyed watching reeling above our new home near #burgesspark . We have even installed a special swift box from @cj_wildlife and hoping that next year the swifts might find it and raise some young here.

The #lovebirds have been such a favourite, so we have gone wild and created the rainbow version based on the African Lovebird.

Finally for those who have American affiliations, the #robin (which is actually a thrush) is a bit different to our wee bird, and made an appearance in the original 1964 Disney Mary Poppins as a clunky wind-up bird at the window, singing to Mary.

For the #redparty - we have a #redcardinal for the #blueparty a #bluejay and for those who don’t want to engage in politics we have the wise #baldeagle

Anyone around from 8th-10th September - we are exhibiting @topdrawerlondon #olympia - please come by and say hello, online registration/free tickets

Instagram post 18132231898359598

Instagram post 18132231898359598

Today would have been my dear mother Sybil’s 98t

Today would have been my dear mother Sybil’s 98th birthday, she almost made it to 95. She taught me much, I didn’t realise at the time how much I had absorbed until recently when I was able to identify 4 wild flowers growing in Iceland. Her great Aunt Ada walked her to primary school along remote country lanes during the depression, about an hour each way on the Shropshire/Welsh borders, they lived in a house with no electricity or running water. They did have a wireless valve radio powered by a big battery. Ada taught young Sybil the names of all the wildflowers and birds and this remained an abiding passion all her life.

Today I picked this bunch of sweet peas which grew on my roof terrace, they have been very late this year, and I was very happy to pick this small bunch to celebrate her birthday.

I count my blessings to have had such a kind & grounded mother who always encouraged us to do our best, she did not believe in hothousing kids, didn’t care about exam results, she was just quietly nurturing, encouraging and not judging.

Thank you Sybil

Thanks also to @robbiehoney for the beautiful housewarming gift of sweet peas which he planted 3 months ago @sarahravenperchhill @sarahravensgarden

Magical puffin moment

Magical puffin moment

Good morning #puffins #Haemay #Iceland

Good morning #puffins #Haemay #Iceland

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!! This movie was made in Ap

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!! This movie was made in April 2024 it shows the land after the December FLOODS washed away huge chunks of land and BEFORE the storm, when the mango tree was already unstable, here we have Mr William September Farm Managing Partner of Grococoa land talking about the climate challenges we face.

Here is my summary of telephone conversation yesterday with William

“Firstly we give thanks that no lives have been lost.
The impact of Hurricane Beryl has been very, very bad. The whole village of St Patricks and the region of Hermitage has been badly damaged, after the eye of the storm completely flattened our neighbouring island of Carriacou. 75% of all the cocoa trees on the farm have been uprooted. The large mango tree beside the Mott Green Memorial Bridge has fallen over, the roots form part of the integral structure of the bridge foundations. I am very concerned that it might undermine the bridge, then we will have no access to the land.
I am going to get a crew together with chain saws so we can clear the land and plant new trees, this will cost money and may need heavy machinery.
It may take 5 years for the cocoa to be back to full productivity.
I personally feel very shaken when I see the impact of the hurricane of the people and the land,”

We desperately need to do the work to protect the land.

We are currently raising funds to pay for this work, especially for the #gubbionbaskets needed to fill with stones, they are not very expensive.
If you would like to support directly, please DM

#ClimateChange #hurricaneberyl #grenada🇬🇩 #hermitagestpatricks #stpatricks

URGENT! GRENADA DISASTER RELIEF FUND ACTIVATED Fr

URGENT!
GRENADA DISASTER RELIEF FUND ACTIVATED
From the High Commissioner for Grenada,
"I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude for your ongoing support to the people of Grenada, Carriacou, and Petite Martinique, especially during challenging times such as Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and the Covid-19 pandemic in 2019.
For full letter see link:
https://grenada-highcommission.co.uk/grenada-highcommission-blog/2024/07/03/grenada-disaster-relief-fund-activated-4/

For donations from the UK
For UK Donations
Grenada Disaster Relief Fund Account Name: Grenada Disaster Relief Fund Account number: 00584503 Sort Code: 30-92-83
For International Donations
Beneficiary: Grenada High Commission Address: 417 North End Road, London, SW6 1NS Bank Name: Lloyds Account Name: Grenada Disaster Relief Fund Account number: 00584503 Sort Code: 30-92-83 IBAN: GB95LOYD30928300584503 BIC: LOYDGB21303
GoFundMe
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebuild-grenada-carriacou-pm-hurricane-relief-fund?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=customer&utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_ft&attribution_id=sl:3bbaca28-8b46-43ed-ac90-4acd9c9283f5

We have donated these bars to:
Heritage Day scheduled for July 6th at Perth Road Playing Field, White Hart Lane, Wood Green, N22 5QJ. We will be prepared to accept financial donations there, and to provide additional information on the shipment of food and other items to Grenada. I encourage you to share this message as far and wide with anyone willing to support. Collaboratively let us all do our part to help rebuild our nation and assist our fellow Grenadians.
Should you require any additional information, please feel free to contact the Mission at office@grenada-highcommission.co.uk or call +44 (0) 2073854415/+44 (0) 7375330696.

Sorry we missed this day, we were celebrating the

Sorry we missed this day, we were celebrating the midsummer with dear friends in the west country. Happy that the sun shone on The Fisherman's Birthday celebrations in London and here is one happy winner of @grenadachocolate bars @nutmegmacespiceuk

Father’s Day: Dads & Beards Celebrating the men

Father’s Day: Dads & Beards

Celebrating the men in our lives: past, present and future.

This year my family will be celebrating our father Anthony Coady’s 100th anniversary.

He would have been delighted to see that his
grandson Cesar has just become a father to a beautiful baby girl named in honour of her great grandmother, and our mother, Sybil.

Looking through some old photos, we found this great one of Tony, sporting a beard. He had just made a long road trip in the early 1970s, driving from London east through Europe, Turkey, Syria and Iraq, to Kuwait. On the left is my nephew Cesar who, while inheriting the family genes, some people say is a dead ringer for the brilliant Spanish chef Jose Pizarro...

The love of good food eaten with as a family continues through the generations, and Cesar is walking the talk with his Ice Kitchen products, creating “fresh” green Thai curry sticks among others, he will be launching his new range soon.

It is with a heavy heart that I share the news tha

It is with a heavy heart that I share the news that Edmond Brown, founder of the Grenada Chocolate Company, departed this world today.

Thank you for all you did to inspire us and move the world of tree to bar making forward so radically.

RIP Edmond, here’s to you meeting with Doug Browne and Mott Green on the other side and talking revolutionary chocolate.

One love

Remembering #mottgreen on the anniversary of his d

Remembering #mottgreen on the anniversary of his death, 11 years ago today. A photo taken some years back with the late great Rawlyns Smith, who left us in April. @grenadachocolate still going strong, we all miss him so much. His kindness & generosity, his devotion to #chocolate. His pure genius & love of tinkering. One of his favourite expressions to demonstrate his aethiesm was “by the Grace of Chocolate”. We’ll be lighting a candle a raising a glass

Instagram post 18030406715308026

Instagram post 18030406715308026

We’ve finally moved into our beautiful new home

We’ve finally moved into our beautiful new home today, couldn’t be happier. Still lots of unpacking to do. Grateful to have a permanent home after the last few years of turmoil

Parting is such sweet sorrow. Until the next time

Parting is such sweet sorrow. Until the next time #grenada🇬🇩 #Sauteurs #grenada50thindependence

Wishing Edmond Brown a very happy birthday. The la

Wishing Edmond Brown a very happy birthday.
The last of the three founders of @grenadachocolate

Celebrating with you on our cocoa farm today

Many happy returns & wishing you above all joy, good health, and appetite

#Family
#friends
#grenada
#hermitagestpatricks
#muttonstew

Instagram post 18011067800369039

Instagram post 18011067800369039

We are at the Duke of York market today until 4pm

We are at the Duke of York market today until 4pm
Come get your Easter eggs

Lovely that our Song Thrush eggs are featured in @

Lovely that our Song Thrush eggs are featured in @holly.co Easter collection - they have such beautiful things, mostly from very small women led businesses, proud to be working with the amazing @hollytucker who is such a force of nature and a force for good. Happy Easter

One of my favourite haunts by the sea in hidden aw

One of my favourite haunts by the sea in hidden away close to Deal, on the Kent coast, on a clear evening you can see France.

This is where I go to breathe the sea air, no matter the weather, this weekend was mixed, we walked in the rain to the local pub, the Zetland Arms for a really good coffee. Sunday lunch next time! Good beer and wine available…

Sea Captain & log fire @TheZealandkingsdown

The fennel which I will forage later in the year is emerging as fresh green fronds

Wild Grape hyacinths

Blackthorn blossom, reminds me of @blackthornsalt another of my favourite ingredients, harvested from Scottish sea water on the Ayrshire coast.

Room with a view thank you dear Judy, the kindest of friends…

#foraging
#timeout
#seaair
#fennel
#seasalt
#muscari
#kent

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