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What a bunch they are this year, if these people really gave up highly paid jobs to go on the apprentice i am sure their former Bosses have have been so pleased to see them go.At this rate I could be on the show, the oldest apprentice ever. Still this year has been good for products we could have supplied. In the episode where they had to sell coffee at a profit, not difficult when you could have a cost price of 20p and a selling price of at least £1 upwards, we could have supplied, at I am sure a lower price than this bunch paid, the Milano Barrier Cups , the Rialto Cups, the coffee beans, they even brought the wrong type of pre ground beans, come on it,s not rocket sceince. so it was no wonder Alan Sugar was giving them so much Sugar Stick

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So what does the film Lucky Break have to do with Talon Direct well apart from my dress sense being criminal it showed Snack Packs being made my the like of James Nesbitt and Lennie James and for some years many of our snack packs have been produced in prison, so maybe you could a brought a snack packed by a celebrity .
For those of you interested it also starred Ron Cook, Christopher Plummer, Timothy Spall and Bill Nighy,

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Some people wonder what we all look like here at Talon Direct trust me it is not a pretty site Whoops just been hit by one of the girls ok they look great. Now me well over the years i have been liken to Adolf Hilter i did have wet hair and a tash at the time to Alan Partridge,dodgey haircut this time to Tom Cruise ok so the lady who thought this was 65 and drunk. The lovely Shani was likened to Lynne in Eastenders, so she changed her hair cut. So why not vist us at pro2pac on stand C/B56 and see what you think. We think we may have Dr Who, Tom Conti, Dav-id from Little Britian and Richard Gere so if you want a ticket vist www.pro2pac

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For the life of me i can't see why anyone would want a frog let alone a free one, but here it is anyway our supplier of the Goodlife range has had an outbrust of frogs. The girls in the office have tried kissing them to see if they will turn into a prince, lets face it it worked for Princess Diana or was it a prince into a frog in her case.So here,s the deal buy a case of product from the Goodlife range and we will send you a free cuddly green frog

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The other day one of our customers phone up for who English is not their first language and she ask for one large servant and two 10x10 shits, well we do try and supply every thing our customers need in the way of Catering Diposables but we seemed to be out of stock of both these items after a confused conversation it transpired she want one serviette and two 10 by 10 brown bags!!

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Now I have friend call Alan who supplies us with our !! Greaseproof Paper, , Poly Card, Wet Wrap, etc. Now Alan considers himself to be something of an expert on different types of paper so when into my possession came a sheet of paper made from Elephant Dung l thought great this will get him and lets face it you don't get more biodegradable than elephant dung paper , it,s just not very good for wrapping food.

So Alan comes over one evening and i say what do you think of this paper? well he rubs it between his fingers, hold its up to the light , sniffs its, goes to do the wet test i e lick it, but stops and goes Indian or Africa.
Bugger.

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In Paradise Heights, Charles Dale, Neil Morrissey and Ralf Little starred as three brothers struggling to keep their discount warehouse business in Nottingham, afloat. Now what has this got to do with Talon Direct. Well we have a printed paper sos bag which is unique to us, it even has my name in the gusset Bag from Talon copy right Chris Hoy how sad is that!. Now some people design Porsche Cars, some Yachts, me paper bags where did l go wrong. Still one day we are working away in the office, actually its, more like a bunker, when we get a call from a BBC producer who,s seen our bags loves it and want to put it in her new drama Paradise Heights in the coffee shop in the warehouse how sad is that! So we rush some bags down to wood lane ready for filming and then when Paradise Heights was on television we watched all thirteen God forsaken episodes looking forour cups which only appeared twice, now thats SAD.

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Yes it,s been a hard days night so while some of you where sleeping i and my rather lovely wife had too force our selves to go out with one of our favorite suppliers, force good wine, food and beer down our necks and then stagger back home by public transport, Can you imagine a man in my position on a train!! what no chauffeur? no leather seats, no nice walnut dash board, yes l drive a jaguar. so what is the point of all this you say well at about 2pm i managed to persuade him to let me do a really great price on some Deep Fill Sandwich wedges he has got cluttering up his warehouse so clink on the link and go for the deal while stocks last, Oh and does anyone know why the older you get the longer it takes to recover?

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Now you never know what people are going to do with our foam cups but the most unusual one we have is the guy who buys 16oz foam Cups from us to sell baby Lizards in . He says they are ideal as theres no sharp edges and it keeps them warm especially when you make your tea

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As i am sitting hear at the end of another fun week at Talon, Our Warehouse man tell's me that he has just broken the mirror of one of the new vans by reversing into the gate , he isn't too impressed by my suggestion that l should now do the same to his new car!! some people have no sense of Humour.

Still over the years we have had some weird and wonderful drivers best of all was dangerous Derek who managed to get the same van stolen twice in one week, i know even the police where amazed. First he leaves the keys in it when delivering to a sandwich bar in Grays in Essex, the only thing wrong with Grays is that its above see level, surprisingly someone nicks it only to be court by the police 15 minutes later then a week later Derek does the same thing again this about a mile from Grays unbelievable. I thought he was joking when he phoned up to say he had done it again. Oh dear says i want a shame you will have to walk home, but it's along way said Derek, but you had a van when you left the yard, it fact you can come home on a pogo stick for all l care. Ok i did make Gordon Ramsey sound like the Queen and guess what some months latter the van turns up but that another story

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After ten years of working in the dark, we have at last got a window in the office the view of the wonderful world of East London is amazing we can now not only hear the trains we can see them plus all the rubbish people dump over the embankment, the Polish Flag flying from the back of one of the houses on the other side of the track and the baby fox which we now feed by shoving our hand though the vent for the air conditioning, yes we are completely mad down here.

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new range of ripple wall paper cups have just been added to our range