Greetings from Sawrey, my ears are still ringing from all of the fireworks last night! A good night was had though, first it was Hawkshead and then it was onto Elterwater, with my friends John, Pete and Andrea, where at the Britannia pub there was fireworks played to classical music. Hawkshead bonfire was really big and the fireworks were spectacular as always! There was a mini funfair for the children and hundreds of people flocked into the village to watch

I popped to Ambleside this morning for the bread form the Apple Pie bakery, its still filling the shop with a wonderful aroma. Sawrey was lost in the mist this morning, but as I drove up out of Outgate it just vanished, its quite stange when that happens! However the mist has now lifted and I think its going to be a blue sky day

Peter the ferryman has brought us lots of sloe's from his garden this morning, we are going to sell them and raise money for the village hall. Sloe Gin tastes very different to ordinary gin apparently, it takes three months to make tho, I will let you know if it was worth waiting for!

The sunday newspapers are filled with the tragedy of the 4 firefighters who have lost their lives trying to rescue migrant workers who were sleeping in a factory used for packaging vegetables for supermarkets. It seems the gas from the rotting vegetables made the fire worse. I have always had an issue regarding vegetables and packaging, its all so un-necessary, fruit and vegetables have a natural packaging and it looks so strange to me when I see root vegetables covered in film at the supermarkets....Sawrey Stores endeavours to keep packaging to a minimum! Perhaps this latest tragedy will force supermarkets to re think their packaging policies, you never know!

Thats about all for now folks, haappy Sunday from Sawrey :-)