As you know, Nicola and I have been busy testing out our products so you can see how we get on.

The Antlantis nature reserve combines an ant farm with a triop tank and a little garden, fantastic!

It takes 3 weeks to go together completely, so this week we’ve been putting the ant farm together, looking for ants (this wasn’t as productive as we’d hoped, so we’re going to order them in!), growing grass and hatching the triops, take a look at how we got on this week.

Antlantis Product Video

Stay tuned for next week when the next stages come together!

Kat x

Nicola and I have been at it again, we’re testing all the best products from Prezzybox, and we’ve got our hands on a few sets of ‘Grow It!’ Kits. These are fantastic little kits that have everything you need to grow Herbs, Sunflowers, Chillis or Bonsai trees. We’ve started off our sets so you can see how we’re getting on.

This is what we’ve done so far…

1. Prepare the compost by soaking the compost disc in the pot

Grow It Product Video

2. Plant Chilli Seeds

Grow It Product Video

3. Plant Herb Seeds (after soaking the Parsley seeds overnight)

Grow It Product Video

4. Plant Sunflower Seeds

Grow It Product Video

Now, we’re going to have to wait and see what happens.

We’ll have some more detailed videos for you when we get our new blog up and running! We’ll keep you posted.

Kat x

We’re a little surprised at how much progress this one has made since we started on Monday. The pitch sat on a windowsil, covered in clingfilm for a few days, looking a little sorry for itself before we noticed on Thursday that some shoots had started to come through! on Friday, we gave it some water and left it for the weekend. when we left, it looked like this

On Monday, we checked on it, and miraculously, we had a pitch of lush, green, Old Trafford grass! We’ve been watering and trimming it ever since, and its doing rather well.

Grow Your Own Football Pitch Product Video

Many people here have commented on how sturdy our grass is, we couldn’t be happier with it. In a week or so, hopefully it will be ready to finish off and become a true pitch!

We’ll keep you updated!

Kat x

Yes, the doves (not pigoens) have gone, and we were there with the camera (for some of it at least)

They started shifting around in the nest in the morning

Then after sitting on the dish for a while they were gone.

The empty nest looks a little lonely now, we hope they’ll be back next year

In other news, we’ve been working hard on our new ‘Tried and Tested’ blog, coming soon to a computer near you! soon you’ll be able to see how easy it is to put together some of our kits such as the ‘Grow your own Football Pitch’ featured in a previous post and the ‘Antlantis’ nature reserve. Nicola and I are working hard and using up most of the windowsils in the farmhouse to grow things.

watch this space!

Hi I’m Ali, I’m doing work experience here this week and I have been asking the staff some questions today in the hopes that I might understand them a little better.

Sharon

Position? : Customer Services Supremo!

How long have you been at prezzybox? : 5 Years

Favourite music/band? rock; led zepellin

Favourite sporting team? tiddly winks

Guilty pleasure? Mr echo

Most embarrasing moment? Got pushed into a pile of teddies in Disney land.

Marmite - love it or hate it? hate it.

Sue

Position? : Sitting down

How long have you been at prezzybox? :Since 8.30 this morning!

Favourite music/band? Stevie Wonder

Guilty pleasure?Walnut whip

Most embarrasing moment? When I was working as a junior at a Hairdressers, a couple of the lads tied me to a lamp post!

Marmite - love it or hate it? hate it.

Dani

Position? : Customer Services

How long have you been at prezzybox? :8 months

Favourite music/band?Red hot chili peppers

Favourite sporting team? Ben’s netball team

Guilty pleasure? Chocolate

Marmite - love it or hate it? love it.

Jean

Position? : Accounts

How long have you been at prezzybox? : 5 Years

Favourite music/band? 60’s

Guilty pleasure?Any kind of chocolate

Marmite - love it or hate it? hate it.

Tony

Position? : IT manager

How long have you been at prezzybox? : 5 Years

Favourite music/band? rock, the louder the better!

Guilty pleasure? I have no pleasures that I feel guilty about

Marmite - love it or hate it? love it.

Ben

Position? : Marketing manager

How long have you been at prezzybox? : 5 Years

Favourite music/band? rnb and hip hop

Favourite sporting team?Coalville cougars and Man U

Guilty pleasure?Skittles and wine gums

Marmite - love it or hate it? love it.

Craig

Position? : Techy

How long have you been at prezzybox? : 1 year

Favourite music/band? rock/indie

Most embarrasing moment? Not telling

Marmite - love it or hate it? love it.

Kat

Position? :PR and marketing assistant

How long have you been at prezzybox? :3 weeks

Favourite music/band?anything and everything as long as it’s good - prefer rock

Guilty pleasure? Britney Spears music
Most embarrasing moment? Mistaking a massive burly bald man in a notorious rock band for a scrawny bald man in a less hadcore rock band and asking for an interview.

Marmite - love it or hate it? hate it.

Stay tuned when Barney an Nicola will be back for questioning tomorrow.

Hey all,

the nest outside our office is getting quite full as the 2 (not 3 after all) baby pigeons are growing.

They look almost ready to fledge, so we’ll probably be saying goodbye to them soon, but maybe with a bit of luck, they’ll nest here again next year.

Aren’t they cute?!

Kat

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You’d be forgiven for thinking we’ve gone a little nuts when we say that today, we at the mighty box, have begun a football project of such magnitude, it has never been attempted before. No, we’re not trying to put together a world-class football team to take of the world, we’re growing a football pitch. Old Trafford to be exact.

Using our new “Grow your own football pitch” kit (available at prezzybox.com) Nicola and myself enlisted the help of Alistair, our new work experience chappie, to take on the challenge of growing the pitch. Take a look at how we got on this morning.

Grow Your Own Football Pitch Product Video

We’ll be giving you updates every so often so keep posted to see if the seeds will grow!

Kat x

Spring is here, apparently, and nature is flourishing around the farmhouse. We’ve even got our own ‘Springwatch’ going on outside with the addition of 3 cute little chicks nesting behind our satelite dish!

We grabbed the camera and took some pictures of the cute fluffy chicks