About Me

About me

My name is Nik and I am Mum to two small boys called Sam and Oliver and partner to the long suffering Ali and we are based in Devon, England.

My blog is about my journey though life, the highs, the lows and all the fun and messy bits in-between.

It is a personal blog that is written by me and only features my opinions. I do work on behalf of businesses and companies, writing posts and reviews but I will only give you my honest thoughts, if I love it or hate it I will tell you.

If you would like to get in touch with me or my mini monsters please contact me at
themummymonster1@gmail.com





Sunday 21 June 2020

Shopping Locally

Shopping Locally

So this lockdown pandemic has been pants, I can’t hug my parents, I have missed my 40th birthday and just been generally rubbish but one thing it has taught me is to shop local and support small businesses.

Now this isn’t a paid ad or anything but I want to give a shout out to two local businesses who I have bought from in the last few weeks and been really impressed with their product and their service.

The first company is The Hand Picked Scallop Company. This business has fab products and great customer service!

I saw a competition running on Facebook for them and I checked them out.

My favourite shellfish is scallops, I adore them, so I messaged them and placed an order.

The message were replied to personally, no “thanks for your message” but a real person who talked me through the best options. I was given a schedule and they were hand delivered to my door in the next couple of days as arranged.

Ali cooked the scallops in a bit of butter and my words were “I don’t ever want to stop eating this!” I think you can tell by that that I enjoyed them.

I have gone on to order twice more from them and included some local crab,  my Dad has been very impressed with the quality of the meat. Another order was for a birthday present for my sister in law. I told the company when I needed the scallops for and they kept my order and added them to the latest dive so I was given the freshest scallops possible.

So I highly recommend that you check them out.

Www.facebook..com/thehandpickedscallopco/















 The second company I can highly recommend is So Nuts Donuts Ltd. I wanted something a bit different for Ali’s Fathers Day present and my goodness I found it.

We have found a great donut company. The choice is limited to 10 choices but I still really struggled with which six to choose. I eventually chose a peanut m&m, lemon meringue, chocolate and strawberry shortbread.

Again when I messaged my order, I was actually greeted by a real person and to me this makes a real difference.

Now I pinched a lemon meringue donut and wow it was delicious!! The meringue part was light and fluffy and the lemon curd inside was sharp and tangy and altogether was just scrummy!!

https://www.facebook.com/sonutsdonuts/

I’m afraid I didn’t get a look in on the others but they looked amazing.

Now this is two small local businesses that I may have overlooked if I had not had been scrolling through Facebook during lockdown.

So if you fancy something a bit different try a local business 👍

#ShopLocal #smallbusiness #support #Devon #DevonBusiness #TheMummyMonster #sonutsdonutsltd #thehandpickedscallopcompany





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