Introducing Valerie…the new Mr Organic van!
On Friday Sam and I picked up Valerie our brand new van…and isn’t she a looker. To be honest, she’ll look a lot better with a bit of slap on (keep an eye out for the update on her Mr Organic make up!) but she’s looking great for now. We’ve certainly fallen in love J. Thanks to Shane and Gary from Breeze VW in Southampton for getting her ready so we could get the Mr Organic tour well and truly started.
(Sam, Shane & Carlo) (Sam loading the first products)
It was an eventful first day that’s for sure! We started by loading her up with products and heading to our great customers Health Zone in Wimbledon.
(Carlo on laptop for first delivery!….Carlo & Mihhail….Mr Organic on the shelf in Healthzone, Wimbledon)
Mihhail was on hand to give us a warm welcome us as usual and we thought that seeing as we were round the corner from Murray and R Fed we better head down to the All England Club to check out some tennis. Well it was more of a fly by…and one that got us into a spot of bother. Who can head past the greatest tennis tournament on the planet without taking a few pictures? Well, the Metropolitan Police had something to say about that as we were pulled over to explain why we were driving an unmarked white van past the gates taking pictures. The exchange went something like this:
Mr Organic (slightly nervous) – “Hello Officer, how can we help? Some delicious ketchup? A fantastic pasta sauce for your dinner sir? The Mrs would love it.”
Mr Police Man (in a grave voice) – “Gentlemen, we’ve had reports of a un-marked white van driving past the gates with someone hanging (a gross exaggeration!) out of the window taking pictures. We believe it was this vehicle.”
Mr Organic (still slightly nervous) – “Yes Officer, that’ll be us. We thought we’d take a picture of the goings on whilst we drove past.”
Mr Police Man (still in a grave voice) – “Under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act I have the right to search your vehicle and look on your camera to see exactly what you were up to.”
Mr Organic (slightly calmer now!) – “Of course Officer, be my guest. We’ve got a load of extremely high quality organic products that don’t cost the earth in the back. Pasta sauces, ketchup, extra-virgin olive oil, tinned tomatoes and much more. Here you’ll see a picture with us and Shane from the VW centre picking up the van this morning…here’s one of us loading it with delicious Mr Organic products…etc. etc.”
You see where this is going…he got a bit bored when he got to the photos of Christmas and granny taking a nap next to the tree!
Mr Police Man (quite friendly now!) – “Gentlemen, I‘m just going to have to take your identification and pass the details onto HQ…standard procedure. You can understand that with The Queen and many high profile celebrities here we can never be too careful.”
Lots of thumb twiddling and half an hour later!
Mr Police Man – “Sorry about the wait. Before I could radio back to HQ someone pulled a sword out of his jacket at the front gates. My colleague had to deal with it but it’s all fine gents…all under control. Anyway, you’re free to go on your way. Sorry for the inconvenience but you can appreciate that Wimbledon is a prime target.”
Mr Organic – “No problem Officer. It’s good to see that security is tight!”
Mr Police Man (pretty relaxed now) – “Yeah, we’ve got the security as tight as a ducks butt down here.” (no joke!)
Mr Organic (very relaxed now) – “That’s tight! Would we be able to take a photo of you holding a bottle of our ketchup? (Cheeky but you’ve got to give it a go!).”
Mr Police Man politely declined and we were on our way again!
Anyway, keep your eye out for more posts. We’re going to get Val some Mr Organic glad rags so she’s going to be pretty recognisable. If you see us on the road give us a toot. We’re going to be heading all around the UK spreading the Mr Organic love…more on that in later posts.
Hope you all had a great weekend and enjoyed the sun….just don’t mention the Germans!
Big love
Carlo & Sam X
