Hello from Sawrey (Miss Potter village)

Far Sawrey lies in rolling farmland and wooded hillsides above Lake Windermere. It is the area where the "Miss Potter" film is based upon. This is a blog from the village shop, which is not dis-similar to the Beatrix Potter Ginger and Pickles Shop here in the heart of the village where Beatrix Potter lived and wrote her world famous stories including "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Good Sunday Morning from Sawrey.................Its a fresh morning, it was raning when I arrived but has stopped now......Had to do the sunday inserts inside to avoid paper mache newspapers, although a customer who has been in has bought a great gadget for recycling old newspapers, its a press machine that you place wet newspapers in, then you squeeze all of the water out with a handle and leave them to dry and you have paper bricks that apparently burn for around 2 hours! Want one!

I can tell that its half term, its only 11am and we have already sold out of bread and bath buns!

Well Benny certainly had a good time yesterday with a customer, he was out over 4hours and came back looking exhausted, infact his little legs would not get up the stairs at home this morning, he is laid outside the shop with a look on his face that says "dont even ask" :-)

Reports from the village jumble sale yesterday were good and I believe over £350 was raised for the hall restoration fund, when i popped up after work members of the committee were having a big bonfire and a sort out, from a distance it looked like the hall was on fire!

I popped to the pub last night with benny as mum is away teaching this weekend, there were quite a few people in, I intended to have a couple of drinks and then was going to stay at mums so I did not have as far to drive this morning, then I remembered I had to go into amblesode to pick up the bread, so I drank orange juice and went home..

Decorating is nearly finished,.. just a few shelves left to varnish... It will be nice when everything is back to normal and in its place, feel really silly when someone asks for something and I have absolutely no idea where it is, bearning in mind the size of the shop!!!!

Half day today......Going to give the dog a back massage I think, he looks so sorry for himself!

Happy Sunday :-)

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