Thursday 4 October 2012

Food not fashion

I had an unusual delivery today. There were no clothes involved :-0

A large, well padded brown box arrived from Fortnum and Mason. No - I don't do my weekly shop there(!) - but I've been using some tea which was a gift, and tasted rather special. I had a nosey on their website and was pleased to find that you can buy tea / coffee / groceries online (and by that I mean single items, rather than having to splash out £100+ on a hamper pre-filled with some occasionally rather wacky delicacies).

Amongst the goodies delivered to me today were:

Breakfast Blend Coffee (no-one speaks to me in the morning before I've had several mugs of strong fresh black coffee)... This tin looks so pretty and can be re-used:


I'm not a big tea drinker but when I do, I enjoy a cup of Earl Grey. (This was the gift tea which I've been enjoying!)  This time however, I bought a box of teabags for easy make-ability. They are all individually wrapped so would be great to use at work / when travelling etc:

I also got Piccadilly blend teabags - one of which I am enjoying right now - it's a good one to try if you drink tea black and like a delicate tea - it still tastes tea like but without that slightly stewy/bitter aftertaste you can get with normal black tea. 
I'm a sucker for a leisurely breakfast. That sounds like I spend every morning reclining with a paper, a croissant and my coffee - haha - if only!  It happens maybe 3 times a year - but when it does I need good marmalade. Enter marmalade with Bergamot extract....

And finally, as if I needed another bag - but you can probably never have too many 'bags for life' (I usually never take enough on the weekly shop) - and this F&M jute shopper is rather smart:


What I didn't buy - but which is definitely on my wish list - is this Illuminum White Gardenia Petals perfume - ah well; it lives to be bought another day....!
I love a good non-clothes delivery almost as much as a clothing order (just complete shopping addict really, even for groceries!) I am chuffed that I can order these items for home delivery - it's such a  bonus for those of us living 'out in the sticks'. Before the days of online shopping it would have necessitated a trip into London with all the associated parking / travelling / grime / crowd related stresses (not to mention expense and confusion of the 'yokel in town' variety!!)

It's got a bit late to do an outfit pic I fear - bearing in mind my pics are dubious quality at best - but I wore Boden moleskin skirt, old bottle green Jigsaw top, black opaques and the F&F Tory-Burch-esque shoes.  I really am making a go of this FrOctober (or SkOctober) idea....!


6 comments:

  1. Oooh F&M Earl Grey tea. I literally drink Earl Grey tea till it comes out of my ears but always Twinings. I've tried others rather unsuccessfully as the tannin is always a little too much and overwhelms the bergamot. That marmalade will be interesting with the bergamot too. Almost a hint of lemon in it then?

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    1. Another Earl Grey fan :-) The Twinings is v good as well, but I'm a sucker for those little individual wrapped teabags, not sure it would be practical if I drunk a lot of tea though!

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  2. I kinda like getting food parcels delivered to be as well. Will be nice to know how the marmalade tastes!

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    1. I'm hoping it will be Earl Grey like!! Will report back. x

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  3. A parcel from Fortnum & Mason sounds frightfully glamorous ... even it was just tea and marmalade. I'm a committed green tea drinker myself, but as I'm filled with hidden shallows that pretty tin could easily convert me to coffee for breakfast!

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    1. HaHa - I'm easily seduced by nice packaging! It made a nice change. Now if only I could get my hands on one of those lovely F&M wicker baskets...without having to buy the contents! x

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