Good Afternoon from Sawrey, its a lush blue sky day here today, hope it stays clear for the annual Hawkshead Bomfire tonight, the bonfire is lit at 6.30 and then there is a firework display, animals take cover!

I am sorting out the fruity van today as of next week I am going mobile in the afternoons, fruitilicious will be born and will be delivering fresh fruit and vegetables to the residents of Hawkshead and Ambleside, I placed a note about this new service in this months parish magazine and I have had several people ring and ask me to call at their home, if the big blue supermarket can deliver round here so can Sawrey Stores :-)

A customer who walks to the shop every day from Near Sawrey has not been in this week, he is having some trouble walking, he went for an x-ray this week and they discovered he had a needle lodged in his pelvis! Amazing hey! Only problem is, its lodged on the other side to where the pain is!?!

Cumbria County Council sent a letter to the shop this week saying that the rural bus service that does not come to our village in winter will now not even be having a timetable published for the service it does provide to Hawkshead! Quite amazing, we get no bus service and the one that we do get some 3 miles away will not have a timetable published! I imagine its due to a shortage of funds after spending hundreds of thousands of pounds trying to bully whistle-blowers who report abuse in care homes?!?

Anyway, on a lovely note, baby Alexander is now home in the village, I popped in to see him and his parents yesterday, he is absolutely adorable, I am suspecting he will have a career doing something with his hands, he seems very interested in his cute little fingers, its lovely to have a new baby in the village, its what little villages like this need

There was a parish council meeting earlier this week, traffic was the 1st issue on the agenda, both the volume of traffic and the speed of traffic through sawrey and the surrounding areas was discussed, an interesting debate was had and I sense it will continue to be had

Thats about all for now folks :-)