Welcome to the Bread and Flowers website, historically a catering business driven by Bee and Martin Simcock from February 2010 to December 2024.  A happy place, full of fond memories, passionate endeavours and deliriously ecstatic customers.  Consider it now a history, a memoire, our CV, a fond farewell.

Times change and ambitions move on, and we have moved on, relocating to West Wales, Pembrokeshire and Fishguard to be precise, Lower Town Fishguard to be even more precise.  Catering and Wiltshire entertained us, held us under their spells for many years, but further adventure called to us and after forty plus years in the county and fourteen years running Bread and Flowers, distant horizons and long overdue projects beckoned.

As of today, we are what’s known as, ‘living in the moment’, pursuing new careers, exploring opportunities, getting to know our new environment, finding the gaps, looking at how we might fit in.  Bee has established herself as a freelance sales and admin ‘assistant’, a one woman support team to a number of catering businesses in the Southwest of England.  She’s a digital nomad with a ton of experience to offer people, she knows what problems look like before they’ve even put their heads above the parapet, so she’s on your side should you need a hand.  If you’re in business, trust me, you need her.

But her organisational genius doesn’t restrict itself to catering businesses, she’s reinvigorating her ‘Space for Life’ enterprise, showing you how to create the space in your daily routines to live the life you deserve, rather than the one you’ve perhaps inherited.

Martin is relishing his new title of cook, not caterer and enjoying cooking for smaller gatherings, alongside writing about cooking and food and the restorative power of both.  He’s also extended his DJ career, dusting off the 1210s, the ones and twos and putting together some uplifting evenings from Northern Soul classics to Jazzy, Funky, Soulful house sets. He also has a wealth of experience running Bread and Flowers so if you new to the industry, he is available for consultancy.

Martin has started writing on the Scribehound platform https://www.scribehound.com/food/community-food-articles/s/community-food-articles. Read about his Rumble in the Jungle adventure and if you have time, please like it and leave a comment, it all helps.  He’s still writing for the local village News and Notes, a kind of Alastair Cooke ‘Letter from America’ although in this case, ‘Letter from Pembrokeshire’. 

So if you would like to get in touch, you can still reach us, bee@breadandflowers.co.uk or martin@breadandflowers.co.uk we’d love to hear from you.