Thursday

Good Afternoon....its a rather damp day here in far Sawrey....One way of telling the telling how chilly the temperature is, is by my hair, I washed it this morning and did not dry it, it is still wet some 6 hours later! Hmmmm won't do that again! Brrrrrrr
I have spent the morning putting away the goodies from the cash and carry, the cash and carry had gone christmas crazy! I think here at Sawrey Stores we will be having a very traditional christmas with lots of seasonal fruit and vegetables. According to past owners of the business mushrooms and cream are a top seller at christmas! I will let you know!
Despite it been much quieter at this time of the year it is really nice to talk to customers that bit more as there is no rush, its good to catch up with people
One customer who lives in the village is Alex Brodie, he is a former BBC World Service correspondent, he began producing beers in the late summer of 2002 in his brand new brewery, located in the old dairy at Town End Farm, Hawkshead. He has now expanded and opened a new brewery in Staveley near Kendal. Today he is having a very special opening day and I believe Border News will be filming there, so if you get Border it may be on the news this evening. Here is a link to his site and you can see the new beer hall which looks great! And we wish him well
http://www.hawksheadbrewery.co.uk/?Welcome
There are several japanese tourists outside the shop as I am typing this, they are taking pictures of the shop... I have just been out and shown them the link ot the blog advertised in the window, they all wrote it down! The blog may go Japanese!!!!!! :-)
There are still a few people in the village in the village who remain unwell and I send them all GET WELL SOON WISHES