The Raw Chef

Seeing The Bigger Picture

I'm an expert at being late.  What I mean is that I can have plenty of time to get somewhere and meet someone but I have a real ability to do something that will make me late - wheather it's just one more website that needs to be looked at, one more page of a book I'm reading, or a mango that's needs to be eaten before I leave.

It's not a conscious thing, well, until now that is.  I certainly don't make myself late on purpose, or because I don't value the other person's time.  That's what I thought anyway.  But in the last 24 hours I've been thinking that to be so 'loose' with my timing, I really am being disrespectful to that person, in my case, without realising it.  I guess it's partly because I don't really worry too much when someone is late for an appointment with me, I just tend to be a bit laid back sometimes and don't like getting worked up about things.  But what does that say about how I value my own time?

Everything happens for a reason

Whoops!  I haven't blogged for over a week now so here's what I've been up to and what I intend to get up to!...

Last weekend we had a visit from James, Anna and their beautiful little daughter Maya (who has the cutest voice you've ever heard).  They came up to Karen's by train for lunch so I prepared raw sandwiches and chocolate torte with ginger cream and strawberry sauce for dessert.  It was great to meet them, having only communicated by email previously.  Sounds like their retreats were fantastic in Ibiza last year, but not without the challenges the come from running something like that!
Pete and Luke came round after their trip to the zoo, just in time for Luke and Maya to get acquainted.  Before they all left, Maya gave Luke a pressie and in return got a hug from him...so sweet!

Dinner Party News

Unfortunately we found out last week that we would not be able to use Vita Organic for further dinner parties, which at first seemed very disappointing.  But true to form, everything happens for a reason, we (I say we, I mean Emma) have found an amazing alternative.  It's Westminster Kingsway College, and before you say, "a dinner party in a college?", it's a hospitality college that can boast several different function rooms, a fully-fledged restaurant and past students such as Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay!  One of the function rooms holds up to 150 people so there's plenty of room for expansion! :-)  To top it all off there's plenty of free parking in it's central location.  This really is such a great result for us.  Ems and I are going to look at it on June 1st (Em's Birthday) to decide which room we want, which will mean the dinner parties will continue from July.  Dates and themes will be updated on The Fresh Network website.