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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks, will do x

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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you - I could get used to this :)

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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you!!

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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 12h

I think he said he’s going home tonight. Seems Reading was another prize winner from the same competition last night. He sounds as though he’s from the North.

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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 12h

Dave is here, happy with the facilities, has a cup of tea beside him, and is cooking up a storm already :)

Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 13h

Our chef for the night, Dave, phoned earlier to say he’s coming from Reading and had hit traffic. He thought he’d be here at 5.30 and still aimed to serve at 7. Now 5.43.

Poor chap must be feeling a bit stressed. We’ve all agreed to be super flexible.

Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 1d

D decided, on a whim, to enter a competition on the side of a box of cat food. And, dear reader, won. 🎉

Tomorrow we have a private chef cooking for us, here. A stranger. 😱😳

So. I’m currently deep cleaning everything.

It feels as though people who never cook live here now.

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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 12h

I’m being good…

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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 12h

Apparently our dinner for six costs Purina £1200. I haven’t asked how much he’s getting (manners)).

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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 12h

Isn’t it?

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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 13h

Our chef for the night, Dave, phoned earlier to say he’s coming from Reading and had hit traffic. He thought he’d be here at 5.30 and still aimed to serve at 7. Now 5.43.

Poor chap must be feeling a bit stressed. We’ve all agreed to be super flexible.

Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 1d

D decided, on a whim, to enter a competition on the side of a box of cat food. And, dear reader, won. 🎉

Tomorrow we have a private chef cooking for us, here. A stranger. 😱😳

So. I’m currently deep cleaning everything.

It feels as though people who never cook live here now.

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 2d

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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 1d

We think Harry & Alex in the dance off.

Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 1d

We also “fenced” off* a patch of nettles and a patch of brambles for the mowers and scyther to leave as habitat.

*canes and twine

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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 1d

Mary and Emily have already done a baseline survey of the flora in the orchard, so we can monitor any future improvements in biodiversity 🤞

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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 1d

Spent part of the afternoon with two Marys and an Emily (and a Basil - but he mostly slept) creating some scratched up strips in the Village Hall orchard and sowing yellow rattle seed.

Hopefully it’ll germinate, seed, and work its way up the orchard to make a favourable habitat for wild flowers.

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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 1d

You know Mouse, she’ll be a party pooper at the party in her honour :)

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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 1d

There’s been a little BS-ery from the private chef company, so I too feel sticking to safer ground was a good move.

Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 1d

My key features 😎

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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 1d

@jelltex.bsky.social If Dave doesn’t ask why we have a fridge magnet of Alaska on our extractor, I’m throwing him out 😂

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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 1d

Probably very nutritious. 😊

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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 1d

Mouse would be very annoyed. 🤣. Actually, one of the questions was whether there are pets. Ummmm…

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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 1d

Knowing how fast chef turnover is, that’s probably a pretty big pool, I thought.

Anyway, they sent us two menus to choose from, and they do look very nice.

So Dave (no surname provided) is turning up tomorrow to feed six of us.

Should hopefully be fun, and tasty!

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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 1d

Choose two cuisines. We decided, as we don’t know the calibre of the chef, to go for Mediterranean and Middle Eastern, rather than something more challenging such as, say, Japanese.

Now handed over to a private chef company, who say all their chefs are Michelin trained.

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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 1d

Once happy that he is who he said he is (Oi - you contacted us!!) we are handed over to an events company.

Events company send questions about everything from allergies to parking. Tea and coffee making facilities? Plus audit of kitchen equipment. Tea towels, oven trays, work surface (in metres).

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Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out the pipeline for running a competition is:

We enter the draw on the side of the box

Purina inform us and scrupulously verify our identity

D seriously began to suspect an identity theft scam when they asked for a scan of his drivers licence, so contacted their customer services.

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