Greetings from Far Sawrey....The only word to describe this week is tumultuous....but on the flip side the strength of care and support in this village is truly wonderful.

Friday night at the Sawrey Hotel was burns night and was as well attended as it possibly could have been, it was standing room only in the bar....I won a bottle of wine in the raffle which is in the fridge ready for a night when some friends come round for a natter..
A good friend and customer took a bit of a tumble during the nights proceedings but thankfully she is now back home and doing well...EVERY single customer who lives in the village and who has been in has asked how she is doing and has asked me to pass on to her husband if there is anything they can do they only have to ask. It is wonderful how this community cares and how people really do love thy neighbour....I do not have a final figure from the burns night supper but I think a few pounds will have been raised for the Sawrey Institute/Reading rooms...
I have done a little research into reading rooms as we have one here in the village, the link below is a good description of how things were....
http://www.aohg.org.uk/twww/leisure1.html

When I arrived this morning I had only been here 10minutes and there were some Japanese girls taking pictures of the shop and the village! (8am sunday morning!!!) Is this the start of things to come as a consequence to the Miss Potter film I wonder!

The village has survived the storms of last week, although mum did witness two 40ft trees fall in the wind in the field behind her house...

Just had a customer in the shop in a lovely tweed suit and plus fours! Anyobne would think we were in the country! Apparently the tweed was from a mill in Huddersfield, where mum and I used to live. Textiles is what Huddersfield is famous for, that and alot of asthma associated with the mills that were!

Well the sun is out and I can see blue sky! I wish you all nothing but blue skies :-)