Another decent week targets being broken all over the shop so can’t complain at all but never stop moving forward and setting those new targets.
I only had one event this week on Saturday for a 50th Birthday in Kingsbridge so passport needed ! It was a lovely old thatched cottage called Rugwell cottage. Now it is all well and good cooking in these nice quaint cottages but when you are 6ft 2 its not ideal as most of the time the ceilings can be very low and this was one of those occasions on Saturday but it was so low I had to take my shoes off to give myself extra head space, always a funny talking point the chef with no shoes on! It was a great evening with a lovely bunch as always I am very lucky to cook for great people. They had steaks and I find it interesting when guests ask for a steak well done they are always very nervous, some chefs get funny or won’t even cook a steak well done and I have never understood why? What business is it of mine how a guest wants a steak cooked also chefs get annoyed about vegan and vegetarians why is this? You are the chef so you cook the food period now if you have a really awkward guest then maybe stand your ground but if it is a well done steak or maybe they want the duck cooked more which I have had, you get on and do it no questions.
Earlier in the week I was in a city and I saw a homeless lad in this 20s I felt like I should talk to him so I gave him a few quid and found out that he was done for drink driving and jailed for 4 months and subsequently lost his house and girlfriend. It made me think that life can change in a heart beat there is a lot of homelessness and people living on the poverty line more and more it can happen to anyone. As I got talking to this lad he said that he struggled on the street as peoples perceptions of him had changed and it was a really difficult for him. I really felt for him I told him sometimes its hard to believe but I believed in him and gave him my details and said if he was ever in Bude I would help him out with work. Now I am not trying to save the world but sometimes its hard and you just need someone to say I believe in you and it will be ok. Who knows what is round the corner for all of us but a few words can really change someones thoughts if that be for the positive or negative. I was banging on about something very similar last week about being kind but why not be kind and give someone you don’t know words of encouragement. Around mothers day someone said to me that their daughter had not been in contact and rightly she was annoyed but then I find out that she had not contacted her own mother! Unbelievable do the right thing and contact your own mother. Anyone that knows me will know that I go off on a tangent like then so apologies I just think people need to be kinder to others.
Also this week I took delivery of this magnificent beast what an amazing crustacean.