Twitter - If you don’t ask, you don’t get

When someone tells you that Twitter is a waste of time, think again, you can make a lot of opportunities happen if you just start the conversation.

Here is my story..

Since moving to Cornwall in 2012 through the powers of Twitter in 2013 and from me putting the search term 'COMING TO CORNWALL' in the search box and scrolling through tweets I came across a gentleman that my family and I had seen on TV as we are huge fans of MasterChef Australia . Kumar Pereira and I got into a discussion over Twitter and then emails were sent.

To cut the long story short, basically in 5 days we (my family and I) got in touch with his publishers, had his recipe books delivered to us, I picked Kumar, his wife and Mother-in-Law up from Fowey and put on a Cooking demonstration and dining event for 14 people at the wonderful Philleigh Way Cookery School on the Roseland with George and James, sold tickets for £20 per head and had Shane Soloman of Cornwall Channel - The power of online video) to come and film it and he put it up on his Cornwall TV channel at the time.

Guests dined on fresh Curried Mussels which were hand-dived on the day by the wonderful Matt Vernon of the then Cornish Mussel Shack (now Cornish Wild Food), Seared Salmon with a coconut and tamarind sauce and Kumar's version of Sri Lankan sweet and sour prawns with young coconut and coconut rice.

It was a pinch your self moment, event. It was fantastic.