FLOWER POT KITCHEN: CAPTIAN JACK SPARROW CAME FOR OSCARS 11TH BIRTHDAY PARTY

3 Dec 2012

CAPTIAN JACK SPARROW CAME FOR OSCARS 11TH BIRTHDAY PARTY

Captain Jack Sparrow, Oscar's scallywag pirate friend came to celebrate at his birthday party

The Pirate birthday cake

Fabulous find these cup cake holders

Excellent pirate balloons

Walk the plank over shark and kracken infested waters, Arrrgh me maties

Captain Jack walked the plank and there was mutiny at foot when a shipmate scuppered the Captains plank and sent him flying into the Briney blue sea

Shark bay where you will be made to walk the plank!

Captain Jack Sparrow getting to know his new crew and setting them challenges

Captain Jack Sparrow and Captain Oscar making an accord, Captain Jack said Oscar needs to eat more as all his bones were showing!

Oh that is just mean, being blindfolded to walk the plank!

The Pirate Lesson

The Pirate lesson, Captain Jack Sparrow took all the young pirates into Oscar's pirate room and they had a lesson on being a pirate, once they had all leaned all of the words like avast, shiver me timbers, booty, looting and splicing the mainbrace they were awarded a pirate certificate which gives each pirate the right to plunder and pillage under the safety of Captain Jack Sparrow

Treasure hunt now that all Captain Jack's crew had passed their pirate lesson it was off to find some booty and look for clues to find the missing parts of the treasure map.

Lets go looting and find this treasure.

The treasure map before it was hidden with clues to lead you astray. The final clue being on the back of the whole map once put back together.

Arrgh the treasure be found, cursed Aztec gold from Cortez.

Happy Birthday Captain Oscar

Captain Jack at the head of the table with Captain Oscar for pirate party tea.

Pirate boats for plates, how cool!

In all the very Best Every Pirate party, Captain Jack Sparrow (Melo) was the most fantastic Captain Jack Sparrow and person, we all had an awesome time and Oscar is so pleased that Captain Jack came to his house to celebrate his birthday, The pirate games where fantastic and really good fun made so much more special by Captain Jack whose character remained throughout, with great improvisations including all us adults as well as the children. Highly recommend Melo, (confuzinJack) for any entertainment venue, just wish we could have kept him.

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LIFE MY PASSION

Welcome to my daily life of cooking, one winters day many years ago my family and I were all inspired by a back to back rainy day of River Cottage this got us to stop talking about and start actually doing, suddenly three weeks later eight vegetable beds were dug, greenhouse erected and our first vegetables were propagating, this was the start to raising and growing our own food, our fabulous son Oscar changed our path in life which lead us to sell our small thriving restaurant of 10 yrs and to start our new life (Terrifying!) a life of the self sufficient in touch with nature and seasons, taking a step back and looking forward to a slower change of pace and making the most of every moment.

My passion for cooking was stronger than ever and having time at home with Oscar I found I had a new direction and I was no longer striving for perfection, I was suddenly very passionate for the enjoyment of the other side of food, something I had not realised, being the Chef/Cook and every other duty of your own small restaurant made me see that I never actually took time to cook what I wanted!

So there I was muddy boots and hands digging deep in more than one sense and I found myself transported back in time to where everyone grew some of their own food, it is a wonderful world with a real sense of achievement and loss, Slugs Snails and Caterpillars! But thats another story! Childhood memories of summers when I lived with my grand parents reminded me of so much that I had learnt about the make do and mend generation that I had forgotten.

Now as a family we love our free wild food days where we gather what nature has provided, have gone from being mini mini garden urban small holders, who did raised pigs at home because we could not wait to find land and supporting ourselves from our garden to now owning a very small farm that allows us to grow more vegetables for the whole of our family and neighbours, raise our own gorgeous Gloucestershire Old Spot pigs, (Sausages!) and pets! Dorset Down sheep, chickens for eggs and pet goats! Suddenly having large quantities of produce started to wake up the Cook in me!

The Cook was awake that part of me that wants to cook for the masses and I found myself setting up Flowerpot Kitchen, a Farmers Market Stall, I wanted to use our honest raised meats and make old fashioned pork pies, rabbit pies and game pies from the local game keeper along with old fashioned techniques and the best hot water crust pastry. This in turn grew to a small cottage industry from home weekly supplying three farm shops and a deli along with also attending three farmers markets A few years later there came a time when my son Oscar's health changed and it was an easy decision to stop.

I still hold the occasional pop up 40 seater restaurant or gourmet lunch which we do for local charities for the love of sharing food and to remind that Cook in me why I love our go slower self sufficient life!

So here I am sitting amoung the vegetables watching the chickens loving that every season nature teaches me something new and that nature is in charge! She has taught me to just go with it and grow. Give it a try from a tray of salad on your windowsill to a few tomato plants it all counts.