The Spanish Place

11/12/2024

This is Baldy…..

Baldy is excited…..

In addition to Idelica being open every day at their unit at D1 Platinum Jubilee Business Park, Hopclover Way, Ringwood BH24 3FW serving Spanish treats, drinks and sandwiches to the public, he is now being asked by Emma to deliver their weekly fresh paella to the local area to try and help some of those who want to try Idelica’s amazing paella or cheesecake but can’t get out. Emma has said that if he works hard, she will take him to meet Santa.

Baldy is now thinking about what MEAT Santa looks like - is he just one type of meat cooked tenderly and decorated in a Christmas style or is he in fact a selection of different meaty treats? Baldy is dragging Emma around the supermarket looking at the 3 bird roasts and asking her ‘could this be meat Santa’?. Emma is at the end of her tether. Baldy is an idiot.

06/12/2024

Sorry to anybody who turned up at Greyfriars after about 6pm yesterday hoping for freshly cooked paella. Unfortunately the high winds picked up our gazebo and threw it against the side of the building upside down. The picture of a mangled piece of metal is one of the frame pieces which bent around my head as the wind took it leaving me with a bit of a headache today.

Thank you so much to all those who stopped to help me try and recover as much as I could. We will be back, but may have to rethink where we place the gazebo as we can’t risk this happening ever again.

05/12/2024

Baldy is cooking, Baldy is happy, please come and fulfil his neediness by buying our delicious freshly cooked paella. Perfect for a miserable Thursday evening treat!!

04/12/2024

Greyfriars fresh paella Thursday - this week (5th December). This week, rather than our frozen paella, Baldy will be cooking outside of Greyfriars. As this is a bit of an experiment, he will be doing chicken and chorizo paella only and it will be ready from 5pm. Baldy will be there from 3pm with Idelica’s Spanish Christmas gifts as well. He hopes to see you all!

03/12/2024

What a wonderful Christmas Time we had at Ringwood’s Winter Wanderland on Sunday. Thanks to all those who stopped by and said hello. Thank you even more to those who bought things. We are back at Greyfriars this week on Thursday where we will have our Christmas gift sets ready to collect. As it is an AFC Bournemouth home match (vs Tottenham) on Thursday, we will try something different and be cooking paella there instead of having frozen.

Remember you can collect all of our products from our office at D1 Platinum Jubilee Business Park Monday to Friday from 10am till 4pm. We have a waiting area in the office where you can keep warm whilst we prepare your order. Feel free to phone in advance to arrange a collection time or if you’re feeling adventurous just turn up!

01/12/2024

Ringwood Winter Wanderland. We are here until 5ish tonight come and find your Spanish gifts. We also have frozen paella, Burnt Basque Cheeeecake and brownies.

28/11/2024

I LOVE Ringwood and our wonderful customers. A lovely new paella family friend popped over and gave Baldy this to keep him warm and smiling on these cold winter nights

28/11/2024

He’s back. The bald headed one is set up and open for business outside of Greyfriars in Ringwood. No fresh paella today as we have another event on at the same time, but we have our any 3 for £20 frozen paella offer on as well as burnt basque cheesecake. Also, this week we have some of our deluxe churros and hot chocolate sets (perfect Christmas present for the chocoholic in the family). Pics to follow but we are also taking orders for Spanish Christmas hampers. Order today and collect next week (potentially also available for delivery.

Baldy has his guitar and is hoping for a singalong as well

27/11/2024

Baldy is back to normal at Greyfriars tomorrow after last week’s snowy conditions. No fresh paella this week as Idelica have multiple Christmas type events over the next few days (including a stand at Ringwood’s Winter Wonderland on Sunday). Baldy will still have all varieties of frozen paella however, plus Burnt Basque Cheesecake. This week, he also has a small number of Idelica’s Christmas churros and chocolate gift set for sale as well. Remember all of these items are also available to collect from our offices if you can’t make Greyfriars where we will welcome you warmly and offer a seat whilst we prepare your order. Just let us know and we will make sure we are there!

Baldy is also feeling ponderous…..

He was listening to the Jeremy Vine show this afternoon where they were talking about dogs celebrating Christmas and Jeremy said it was ‘serious’. Baldy is contemplating the religious connotations of dogs accepting the birth of Jesus into the world and how they have adapted their own canine construct of the festivities to celebrate the remembrance of Christians’ saviour. Baldy is also thinking about whether dogs, like humans, have the freedom of choice to adopt their own God beliefs and whether or not these mirror the various human religions or if dogs have their own animal deities to worship.

It might be a long afternoon.

Baldy is an idiot!

21/11/2024

POSTCODE NOW CORRECTED - thanks to Geoff! Come and find us at Unit D1 Platinum Jubilee Business Park, Hopclover Way, Ringwood BH24 3FW.

Baldy is sad not to be serving his adoring people outside of Greyfriars today but he is somewhat heartened having set up his selling table at the office instead (we call it Tapas Towers!)

For 1 week only (back to Greyfriars next week weather permitting), the weekly sale of frozen paella, cakes and Spanish gifts will happen at our base. The fresh paella is also available from 5pm to 7pm. This week we have Seafood Paella and Chicken and Chorizo Paella.

21/11/2024

***UPDATE*** Baldy is extremely excited to learn that both our famous Burnt Basque Cheesecake and our super moist chocolate olive oil cake are also available from our offices today (see below). Baldy is there now and is currently staring at the cakes in the fridges hoping that he can have them all to himself. Please come and buy before he gobbles the lot!

We are not going to set up outside Greyfriars today - it’s not safe to do so considering nothing has been gritted.

We are still cooking our fresh paellas as planned though, and tonight it’s both our chicken and chorizo paella and SEAFOOD!! Instead of collecting at Greyfriars, you can pop by our office between 5 and 7 to collect instead.

Address is Unit D1 Platinum Jubilee Business Park, Hopclover Way BH24 3FW.

Hopefully back to normal next week

14/11/2024

This is Baldy…..

It is Thursday, soBaldy is back at Greyfriars again selling Idelica’s frozen paella, cakes, Spanish gifts and fresh paella from 5pm…..

Baldy is feeling efficient……

With the recent news that the gift that keeps on giving (Elon Musky) is to head up an efficiency drive within the all powerful leader of the world’s (Donald Duck) Government, Baldy is determined to be learnspired by their combined greatness and has been busy pestering Emma all day to “just do it quicker”. Emma seemed quite pleased when Baldy was running out of the door to get to Greyfriars and set up - can’t think why.

Baldy is an idiot!

13/11/2024

Baldy is excited. After too many hours at his desk this week he is looking forward to serving paella to his local community again tomorrow at the roadside entrance to Greyfriars Comminity Centre.

Baldy will be there from 3pm tomorrow (Thursday 14th November) with frozen paella and cakes available as well as a few Spanish gift ideas. At about 5pm Emma will arrive with the fresh paella (she was 5 minutes late last week 😯) and this week we have BOTH chicken and chorizo paella as well as vegetable paella. Supplies are limited and only available until 7pm as Baldy turns back into a pumpkin shortly after this time.

Be there and don’t miss out!

07/11/2024

07/11/2024

Well, well, well……

What have we here? Yes we are open. Baldy is all set up and ready to serve. We have frozen paella at any 3 for £20 we have Burnt Basque Cheesecake AND our homemade moist chocolate olive oil cake, we have a few Spanish gift type treats and between 5pm and 7pm we will have freshly made paella sold in individual tinfoil trays ready for you to tell home and enjoy.

NPD: -
Name - you (whatever you want to call yourself)
Place - outside of Greyfriars in Ringwood
Dinner - freshly made authentic chicken and chorizo paella

05/11/2024

This is Baldy….

Baldy is feeling useful…..

Despite his general inability to complete even the most basic of tasks correctly, Baldy is confident when it comes to setting up his retail stand. This Thursday from 3pm to 7pm he can show off this skill to the very best of his ability.

Baldy will first set up and then sell from his gazebo pop up shop outside the main road entrance to Greyfriars in Ringwood, our local community centre. From there he will sell Idelica’s frozen paella (3 portions for £20 or £7 each) and Burnt Basque Cheesecake portions (£4 each) alongside a few choice retail stock items. He will happily chat to anyone who looks vaguely interested and will try to wow his adoring audience with his knowledge of the Idelica products.

At 5pm, Emma will be delivering some freshly made paella for local passers by to take home and enjoy without all the fuss of cooking dinner. This week, this will be Chicken and Chorizo paella and will be available for £12 per portion until 7pm or we run out.

Baldy can’t wait to meet people on Thursday - don’t leave him standing there alone.