Gluten free contact

good morning :)

Ok, so yesterdays' business planning was side tracked slightly, mainly due to suffering a second day of a hangover - why does it take longer to recover as you get older? are there any scientific reasons for this? Wednesday evening my sister and brother, Sinead and Cormac and Sandra, Cormac's girlfriend came over for a canape sampling session. Cormac, being a mixologist, is creating a cocktail menu for me which he also had samples for. Needless to say, the cocktails went down a treat!! Luckily I got my samples and feedback in before the alcohol had a chance to gate crash the party. Admittedly, I'm still suffering today. I'm thinking definitely next time to get other people to sample the cocktails :) any offers?

While I didn't format the business plan I did sit in Starbucks and think about it a lot. Conseqeuntly I woke this morning feeling rather anxious, a sign I thought to myself that I probably really do need to get this business plan down on paper. Any help on this is most openly and gracefully accepted ;)

So here's the thing right, when you start out on a journey you start making connections with people you would never have previously made contact with and the most wonderful things can happen. Only last week I had met an old friend of mine Cat for breakfast and while we were discussing the business I explained to her I was experimenting with gluten free ingredients and the troubles it is to source these. Well, low and behold she tells me of this friend who set up a businesses selling gluten free ingredients after becoming herself so frustrated with the lack of availablity on the market. So I got in touch with her and though disappointly she had stopped selling the gluten free ingredients she credits herself with being a keen baker who has a wealth of experience with gluten free recipes, due to her partner being coeliac. She is in the middle of writing a business plan herself to start her own business catering specifically for coeliacs and wished to meet to discuss ideas and maybe even business partnerships. Well one can only speculate, and speculate I did all day yesterday, where this could go but one thing I know for sure is that I need to meet this woman.

OK, so today is back to the drawing board, back to the business plan and to get it down and out of my head where it's living a very introspective and at times daunting existence. The idea is to not let it ovewhelm me, just take it piece by peice and after my fourth cup of coffee I'm ready for it!!

so we'll catch up tomorrow