Greetings from fruity sawrey! We finally made it to the fresh fruit market in manchester last night....We have wanted to go for ages but what with illnesses we have not.....we set off at 2am, it only took an hour and a half to drive to smithfield market. We arrived at what looked like an old airport hanger and it was filled with fresh produce, flowers at one end and fruit in the rest! all in abundance looking and smelling so lush! Both price and quality soooooooo much better, speaking to one of the men there he has worked there for over 40years! thats some going!

We spend quite a long time looking at all of the produce and talking to the sellers, we left about 5am and got slightly lost trying to get back to the motorway. We called at a petrol station near the centre of manchester and we had to pay for the petrol before we could fill up!!! I assume they dont trust drivers not to leave without paying! All a far cry from sawrey!

The outside of the shop is bursting with colur and its sooo nice to see it looking like a greengrocers, we even managed to buy some of the plastic green grass we have been looking for since we moved here

Suma the wholefood suppliers came yesterday so we have lots of putting away to do today..... The ferry is still off today, hope yesterdays maintenence job didnt make matters worse!

We have taken on our very first employee for the shop today, he is a young man who lives in the next village and he is going to come and help us at weekends, we look forward to working with you Joe!

Thats about all for now, better go sell some more fruit and veg

Happy Thursday