Web Site Blues

We're florists, we deal in organic matter and generally have our feet rooted in the muck of the physical world. If a lily comes in and it looks like it may have been chilled, we can spot that. When flowers need a little TLC we can deal with that. If a bouquet doesn't look just quite right we can tweak it.

These are things we can do.

When our web site starts playing games with us we get a little worried. When our usually super cool web designer throws his hands up in despair we really start to freak out.

Although the job is in hand and there's a bit of a rebuild going on we're still facing a couple of weeks of uncertainty where the very odd customer may face problems when trying to complete their order.

C'est la vie as they say. It will be sorted and we can get back to our plans of world wide web domination.

Outside of our technical hitches, the Flower Council of Holland have come up with a novel gift to celebrate the great British summer. Combining humour, flowers and the dutch love of all things orange they have created a flower print umbrella to keep us dry during the seasonal months. Very thoughtful of them!

Giant Flower Week!

On our delivery this morning were oversize Celosia and the biggest Dhalia we have ever seen! They dont come cheap but they do make quite a statement we think.

Things are busy as ever with 3 weddings last week and another one this saturday. On top of that there's always a healthy amount of buttonholes and corsages to make up for our customers who are off to weddings of their own.

We created a couple of tribute bouquets for the poor fireman who lost his life on Dalry Road last week. Some flowers you're always happy to make up, others you wish you didn't have to.

On a happier note, our dog, Olive, was up and running in the Pentlands this morning, courtesy of Sarah McLean and Citydogs! She takes Olive and a pack of other hounds out in the wild and lets them be themselves for an hour or two. Then very kindly hosed her down so she flopped into her bed all clean and soft and not honking in the slightest!

In Shandon News, Tom Duffin, our neighbour, of X-Sail fame was on the telly last week, promoting his wind powered land yacht on a beach with no wind....not ideal but they did a pretty good job of selling it all the same - just a shame my gran's dead, she would have loved it! You can check out our local celeb here.

Come Rain or Shine

Phewwy it is hot round these parts! Not that we are complaining, but we have had to invest in a few fans to try and keep the flowers cool and there's a constant argument as to who gets to take Olive, our puppy for her walks (aka leisurley stroll through the park in the sunshine!).

The rain has not been a stranger either though, which at least has been keeping all the garden plants in good health!

Despite the whole of Shandon being away on holiday since the schools broke up on Friday, we had a busy weekend with 2 weddings, one at The George Hotel, the other at Craighouse. See photo above.

Talking of holidays, a couple of the local businesses are off on their hols too - one of which is Blueberryhill cafe next door, how will we survive?! No baked tatties and giant scones for us this week - boo! So we brought our own lunch in today - Innocent (the smoothie people) do veggies pots now, so just eaten a curry one and feeling very 'fu' and have left the shop with a floral yet spicy aroma!

Monday moan alert though - where are the bloomin bin men???! I am surrounded by bin bags and Olive is in her element ferreting around in them! they didn't turn up at all last Monday, and its looking the same this week...rant rant ;o))

Three weddings this week - a sunflower one, a daisy one and a peony one - all very summery but all with a contemporary twist - should be good, especially if the sun hangs around a bit longer...