NEWS FROM HONEYBUNS
BAKERY NUMBER 19 - SPRING 2010 |
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HONEYBUNS
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Honeybuns
Minis are now available to buy in the super cool cojean stores
in Paris. After much careful deliberation cojean chose the
Almond moon, Milk Chocolate Brownie and Snowy Hills Minis.
So if you're planning a trip to Paris you can head for cojean for
your fix of genuine, Dorset made Honeybuns. www.cojean.fr
 
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ON THE
WAY - THREE NEW MINIS
Due to
popular demand we’re launching another three
mini varieties this May. The new flavours are Snowy Hills,
Milk Chocolate Brownie and Almond Moon and will be available
both to our trade customers and online.
If you fancy a little of something sweet but have half an eye
on the old calorie intake - these little poppetts might be
just the job. Trouble is
they’re devilishly tempting and by 3pm we’ve
usually snaffled 2 or 3. Oh well - just another motivation
to go for a run! |
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| Honeybuns' online shop keeps on
growing |
We now offer a lovely selection
of uniquely Honeybuns treats and gifts from tins of cakes to
lip balms. Our "pure as the
driven
snow" lip balms are made especially for us by the super
talented Filberts Bees of Muckleford in Dorset www.filbertsbees.co.uk.
Paraben-, alcohol- and paraffin-free, these lip balms are kind
to nature and to you.
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come to you in our beloved Snowy Hills (lemon and ginger) flavour
and we’ve been using them all winter long. Once you’ve
tried a properly natural lip balm there is truly no going back.
A top tip is to check your lip balm ingredients- they are not
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AMONDI
Based on the Italian amaretti, we’ve created a crisp on the
outside, moist on the inside mix of toasted ground almonds,
hazelnuts, and orange zest. At first, it took our customers a little
while to get what Amondis were exactly.
Cookie or biscuit? Now they are one of our most popular lines.
A favourite in the Glastonbury Festival office. |
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We
are holding a tasting session at the super lush John Lewis at
Home store in Poole. You can try our cakes and savoury tarts
as long as stocks last.
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Tuesday, 20th April
from 4 till 6pm
The tasting venue is - The Cafe, John Lewis at Home Poole Retail Park, Poole,
Dorset BH12 1DN |
Our much
anticipated new raised veggie patches and polytunnel are now
nearly complete. This will enable us to offer a veggie patch
each to our team members.
For those who do not relish muddy fingernails we’ll be operating
a ”veggy kitty” whereby the keen green fingered amongst
us can sell their seasonal gluts to those of us in the
couch potato group. We’ll also be growing salads and veggies
for the Bee Shack open days. So if you’re joining us for
lunch this year hopefully you’ll
be bowled over by the freshness of these new home grown greens. |
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| TIP TOP TEAM |
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1.
Describe your typical day?
A Typical day is hard to define, I
could be doing anything from Baking, team training, recruitment,
office based QA work, cooking the
team lunch or hedge laying.
2. Favourite Honeybuns cake & why?
My favourite cake has
to be Coppice cake, this
cake is not overly sweet but packed full of tart cranberries
and dark chocolate, it's perfect
with a cuppa or warmed through with a dollop of cream.
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3.
Honeybuns Goals for this year?
One of my honeybuns goals for the year is to develop the Bee green side of things,
opening our beautiful little nature reserve to our lovely Bee shack customers
and visitors and for us to become more self sufficient, growing our own fruit
and veg and maybe get some chickens !
4. Biggest challenge at work?
My biggest challenge has to be recruitment, we are growing and therefore expanding
our team, we have a very special group of people who work incredibly hard
to produce the best cakes in the land, so when new people come along we
have to get it right and make sure growing the team doesn't mean loosing
the magic.
5. What do you do to relax?
To relax I potter in my garden, walk on the Dorset coast, eat lovely food with
my husband and natter with my friends. |
| ANIMAL MAGIC |
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Kitty
- The last of the litter
Remember our gorgeous little
puppies in the Honeybuns
leaf-cart as featured in the
Christmas newsletter? Just
thought you’d like to see how
Kitty has grown. We could
only keep one from the litter -
we adore her. Favourite
pastimes - stealing butter
from Em’s fridge and
imitating a ginger
pogo stick.
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
4th-30th June: Forman’s Smokehouse
Gallery: Rosie Emerson is exhibiting
www.rosieemerson.co.uk
Join us on
Saturday 1st
May in the Bee Shack
for Bubbly and
nibbles
3-5pm for Marie Curie's Blooming Great Tea Party.
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Sat
1st May: Shaftesbury Food Festival
Fri 21st – Sun
23rd May: Waitrose Leckford Festival, Stockbridge
Mon 31st May: Sherborne
Castle Country Fair
Sat 19th June: Bridport
Food Festival
Wed 23rd – Sun
27th June: Honeybuns Café at Glastonbury Festival
Wed 21st – Sun
25th July:
The Lowland Games. www.thelowlandgames.co.uk
Sat 24th July:
Samaritans 24/7 Campaign, Yeovi. www.samaritans.org 01935
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Honeypot
provides ongoing
support for
vulnerable
children between
the ages
of 5 and 12
including respite
breaks
at Honeypot House in
the New Forest in
Hampshire.
www.honeypot.co.uk
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Naish Farm, Stony Lane, Holwell, Sherborne,
Dorset DT9 5LJ
Tel: 01963 23597 www.honeybuns.co.uk
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