Welcome to our "What’s New" section of the website. My opportunity to provide a newsletter-type service, we’ll be filling it with tips and updates--feel free to email offerings. Oh, and recipes!

Hi! News update--as promised, I’ll be bringing you up to date with our news as it happens. And just recently it’s been getting quite exciting!

First of all, we’ve been lucky enough to have found the BEST work experience student on earth. Jo was so good over the course of the week, that we’ve kept her and she more or less sorts us out every Sunday. Your products will be bottled by her, and she will also be packing up your orders. I really don’t know what we’d do without her--so welcome Jo!

Next bit of news--in addition to being stocked by Harvey Nichols in London, we are now also to be found in Harvey Nichols in Leeds! I am so delighted by this--retailing with them was possibly one of the most frightening things I’ve ever done, and to be going national in this way is reassuring beyond measure that we are doing our jobs successfully. Just thinking about this makes me go all puddly, sorry! Anyway--enough of my tears--for all of you in the Leeds area--do pop into Harvey Nichols and have a play, ok? Tell ‘em Merri sent you!

Next bit of news--I’m having a serious play with more products for adolescent skin probs. If you have any views, requests or suggestions, please, please email me with them so I can take them into consideration.

Lastly--
With our first newsletter, I foisted my Mom’s Chicken Soup recipe on you all. But seriously, it is so yummy and good for you. And we’ve had the most remarkable feedback regarding its benefits--Mom would be so proud!! This time round, however, I’m offering you a recipe of such utter decadence it could only have been contributed by our new recruit. In the words of Mae West--"Goodness has nothing to do with it!" These are just plain exquisitely yummy.

Jo’s Coconut Delights
Ingredients:
4 ozs butter
4 ozs icing sugar
8 ozs desiccated coconut
small tin condensed milk

To finish: cocoa powder; sugar & chocolate strands; icing sugar; toasted coconut
(We usually do double quantities because I only ever have large tins of condensed milk!)

Method:
1. Cream together the butter and sugar. Beat in the condensed milk and coconut.
2. Roll into small balls and coat in cocoa, sugar / chocolate strands; icing sugar and toasted coconut.
3. Put into sweet cases.
Note: Can be frozen.

To close, thank you all for sharing your time with us, and thank you also for your correspondence. Your views are so important to us, so keep them coming in. If you’d like to see any of the previous news pages, just pop to our archive page. Pete, who does our website, and is very clever about this sort of stuff, has organised it beautifully, so take a bow, Pete.

Love and happiness to you all from all of us!