The Highland Show

- James, Dad and myself manning the stand.

Sorry for a couple of weeks of not posting.

Everything has been dead busy. I spent a couple of weeks travelling around the West Midlands - visiting Waitrose stores. This was pretty hard work. I got up at 6:30am every day, travelled for a couple of hours to get to the stores, worked until 7pm and then travelled back to go to bed. I got to see Brum and bring SuperJam to a few thousand more families, which makes it all worthwhile.



Batman and Robin in Stourbridge.

I also went on a cookery programme with Levi Roots, the Reggae Reggae sauce guy, which was cool. Will be shown on the telly in a few weeks, might be able to stick a clip on the blog.

As soon as I got back to Scotland, I had to spend four days at the Highland Show. Apparently, it's the biggest public event in Scotland with a few hundred thousand visitors over the four days. Certainly felt pretty big. We sold thousands of pots of jam and everyone was really interested in the products. Met a lot of other small food producers and had fun sharing stories and experiences.

I'm totally shattered now (Sunday evening) and looking forward to a few exciting things next week.

By the way, if you are a Facebook user, then make sure you get yourself down to the SuperJam Fan Group created by jam fanatic Yvie and sign up!

Over and out,

Jam boy.

The Jam's 2007 Tour of Great Britain

Hi,

The SuperJam tastings are continuing. I'm clocking up railmiles faster than the average GNER ticket conductor. Next week I will be staying in Birmingham ('oooh, get you with the travel') and visiting some of the Waitrose stores in the West Midlands. Here's the places/dates if you fancy popping along to say hello:

Monday 11th: Hall Green
Tuesday 12th: Newport (not Wales)
Wednesday 13th: None.
Thursday 14th: Going on the telly
Friday 15th: Stourbridge
Saturday 16th: Droitwich
Sunday 17th: Wolverhampton

Monday 18th: Wolverhampton
Tuesday 19th: Four Oaks
Wednesday 20th: None.
Thursday 21st: The Highland Show, Ingliston (Scotland)
Friday 22nd: The Highland Show
Saturday 23rd: The Highland Show
Sunday 24th: The Highland Show

Quite an action-packed couple of weeks.

SuperPudding

Hello,

I've had a pretty eventful week. Spoken at three conferences, won an award and organised another couple of weeks of tastings.

On Thursday, I spoke at a big education conference in London (before flying back to Edinburgh to speak at a similar event). The topic was 'enterprise in education', something that I am quite passionate about. As a young entrepreneur still passing through the education system, I guess I'm a good position to give pointers on where improvements can be made to help others become more enterprising.

I don't have many major criticisms of the education system but there are a few things that I think are important for the policymakers to think about when trying to create a 'culture of enterprise' in Britain. There's an article on the BBC News website about what I said, if you are interested.

BBC News Website

After these two speeches, I went along to 'The Outstanding Young Persons of the World Awards'. I won an award in the Scottish Economic/Enterprise section, alongside Michelle Mone (of the 'Ultimo' bra). TOYP is a worldwide competition and previous winners (of the global round) include Elvis and Jackie Chan. There were a lot of inspirational people at the ceremony in Edinburgh and I was, obviously, delighted to be given an award.

We all had a lovely meal overlooking Edinburgh Castle, chatting about all of the amazing stories that had led to everyone being given awards. My favourite part of the meal was a 'Blueberry and Blackcurrant SuperJam sponge mille-fieulle with a Raspberry and Cranberry SuperJam coulis'. The photo above is of the chef, Joe, with myself.