Good Afternoon from sunny sawrey, its another blue sky day here today and its very warm! Its been a busy morning in the shop, it usually goes quieter on a sat afternoon as its change over day in the holiday cottages, however I have started to notice that people who come to stay int he cottages come earlier and earlier, it used to be about 4pm they all arrived, however the people staying at letterbox cottage across from the shop have already arrived and its only 12.30! Guess ya kind of get an extra day if your lucky enough....

The above picture on the left is of the cumbrian ham and the range of cumbrian cheeses that we sell and the picturs on the right is a box of groceries that have been ordered by some holiday makers who are coming to stay at Esthwaite Farm in a holiday cottage, we deliver groceries free of charge to people coming to stay locally....

We sold out of the strawberries and raspberries yesterday and I am hoping the same happens today, they smell soooooooooo sweet!

Some of the new range beatrix potter gifts arrived yesterday and I am in the process of putting them onto the web site. The gifts that arrived were the new mugs, t towels and giant pencils, and they will go into the beatrix potter gifts for under £10 section

Well thats about all for now folks, I am feeling a BBQ coming on this evening

Happy Saturday from Sawrey :-)

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Greetings from Sawrey, apologies for the blog absence, the bank holiday week has been absolutely crazy and I have not have time to have a drink never mind a moment on the computer,however we now have a bit of a lull after the storm....although it has been nice to be busier this week. One day 50 scouts descended on the shop!!!! They spotted the sweets in jars and there was I bagging up sweeties like they were going out of fashion, think I even woke up adding up!

Its friday which means its fruity day again, the strawberries smell sooooooooo good today, Raspberries were on offer so I picked up a box of those too

Today is the beginning of the Holker Hall Festival so I imagine it will be quieter today as Hill Top is closed on a friday

Had a scary squirrel moment on the way back from picking up the fruit, the woman in the car infromt of me broke suddenly to aviod a squirrel in the road back from Newby Bridge, I had to break sharpley too and the strawberries went for a bit of a flying lesson in the back of the van! Its like a fruit smoothie in their at the moment, better go clean up

Happy Friday from Sawrey :-)

Good Sunny afternoon from Sawrey,it aint half a hot one! Cloudy but hot!

As the Bank Holiday approaches we are stocking up on all things colourful and sweet like, its time for the little shoppers to arrive as they are off school for a week....sweet things galore!

Today has been delivery day and a half, there are box's everywhere, it is fresh produce day, cheese delivery day, cash and carry unloading day, drinks supplier delivery day oh and a few ice creams just for good measure......PHEW!

Sawrey Sports comittee have placed an advert in the window for a BBQ at that Tarn Hill playground on June the 8th, last year was a great day and it raises money for the playground

Well folks thats about all for now, the sausages have just arrived! More box's!!!!

Love from Sawrey

Good Morning From Sawrey, its another blue sky morning here. Yesterday afternoon was the May Queen Fayre and a great day was had by all.

It was traffic chaos in the village yesterday morning, the Brathy run which set off from Brathy training centre via hawkshead, graythwaite and lakeside seemed to close the road and traffic for some bizarre reason was diverted through Sawrey, it was absolute chaos and nobody seemed to know where they were going. Lots of screeching of wheels and setting off fast in 1st gear....

However, as diversions go I think a diversion through sawrey, cunsey and graythwaite is a pretty beautiful one

Menzies the newspaper distribution company have surpassed themselves today, here at Sawrey Stores it is safe to assume we sell lots and plenty of times, telegraph and daily mails, however today the computer said no and it did not send us enough telegraphs or times but to save the day the computer said..........hmmmmmm I know we will send them masses of Mirrrors and Daily Sports!!! Interesting!!!!

Its just been on Cumbria News that the foresty commission have recently put up 20 boxes for Barn Owls to nest in around grizedale forest, sounds good! I love Barn Owls

Well thats about all for now folks, enjoy the sun :-)

Good Morning from a slighty overcast Far Sawrey, despite the weather it has been quite a busy morning in the shop, lots of people going home and coming in to take groceries with them which is nice....

Tomorrow is the May Fayre in the village and a new May Queen will be crowned followed by dancing around the maypole, a good old village day for all ages, there is also a raffle some stalls and refreshments. The procession sets off from Near Sawrey at 2pm

I have taken a picture of the new sorbets that arrived from English Lakes Ice Cream and I can say hand on heart that it is absolutely delicious and perfect refreshment for a sunny day, we now just need some sunshine!

A gentleman has just been in the shop who has been coming on holiday to Sawrey for over 50years! Amazing, but understandable as Sawrey is such a special place

Thats about all for now folks, its a rollover on the national lottery I have just head, good luck!

Love From Sawrey

Good Afternoon from sawrey, its a much cooler day here today, no rain,but a lot of cloud cover. Its absolutely lovely that its soft fruit time again! They smell and taste absolutely lovely and are selling a treat.

The jack daws have a bit of a crush on the plums and its a battle to keep them from been eaten although one of the birds has just flown straight into the window en route to dive bombing the fruit and knocked itself senseless...oooooooooooppps!

The water from the flood soaked under the counter and it taking some drying out and the insurance company say they dont want to know, so its a case of lift it up and keep praying it dries out!

The westmorland gazette keeps reporting on the proposed chages to WaterHead, it is proposed that the bottom road will be closed, re routed and it will be pedestrianised, concerns have been raised as to whether or not such work needs to be carried out at such a great expense. If you have anything to say about the propsed changes I think they can be lodged at this address http://www.sldt.co.uk/waterhead.html

Thats about all for now folks, the jack daw is back!

Love from Sawrey

Good afternoon from Sawrey............Baby Alex popped in yesterday and I was sooooooooo pleased to see him, he looked quite the dashing young man and he is growing well since he last popped to the shop! Sawrey Stores youngest shopper!

All quiet in the village today, no floods! its a beautiful blue sky day, some new tubs are coming from English lakes ice cream today including Mango Sorbet and Strawberry Sorbet, cannot wait to sample them! (THEY HAVE JUST ARRIVED! :-) )))))))

Am away for a few days so the blog will return towards the end of the week, enjoy the sunshine

Love from Sawrey :-)

Good Afternoon from Sawrey........The village was hit by freak weather and a flash flood yesterday and after the most amazing golf ball size hail stones at around 3pm came the rain,within minutes raging torrents were flooding down the roads and the shop got completely flooded out. Chris next door who was giving a Banjo lesson at the time did some of his finest multi tasking and left his student to come here and pile up the sand bags, but to no avail as the rain was so powerful and it completely flooded the top and the bottom of the shop and two houses accross the road fromt he shop...........phew what a nightmare!!!! The people in the holiday cottage accross the road helped out and could not believe their eyes, neither could I!!!!! It was truly like a scene out of a Benny Hill Movie!!!! I kept expecting some music to pipe up at any moment :-)

Finally today we are all cleared up and just as I was about to have a sit down I heard a most almighty bang and went outside to see a aggregate truck racing down the road having taken out a massive rock and the sewege pipe from the holiday cottage across the road, still traumatised from yesterday the holiday makers came out, I did my finest impression of a reasurring shop keeper and told him its usually quiet in the country....he didnt look like he believed me !!!!

Well thats about all for now folks, enjoy the sunshin and if you hear thunder, get out the sand bags quick! :-)

Good Sunny Salady Morning From Sawrey!!!!!!!! its another lush day here in the lakes, I hope it is with you.....everyone is coming into the shop saying how they have not slept due to the heat overnight....what a difference a week makes hey, I was still wearing my polo neck jumper a few days ago!!!! This morning I have sold salad salad salad!!!!!!!!!

Ventilation is the issue here today as its sooooooooooooooooo hot in the shop!!! we have decided to remove the air conditioning unit that does not work and replace it with a good old fashined window to let some air circulate around the shop, might need a bit of iron work to make it secure....

The lady who used to make our lovely tray bakes has decided to cease baking so we were left with a bit of a problem regarding sourcing yummy tray bakes..........that problem has now been solved as the chef at the Youth Hostel has offered to make them for us, they make and sell them in the youth hostel and I have to say that thay are absolutely scrumdiddlyumptious! The chocolate oatie bar is out selling the flapjack at the moment.....

I just had a look at the ferry web cam and its the first time I have looked at it since we got braodband, it uptates every few seconds! technology never ceases to amaze me!

http://www.fba.org.uk/index/ferrycam

I am trying to learn about "search engine optimisation" or seo to those of you who speak computer jargon so that our web site lists higher on the search engines, I am going on a course soon to learn from the experts, its all very complicated at the moment but there appears to be method in all of the madness...I think!!??!!

Thats about all for now folks...enjoy the sun

Good Friday Morning from Sunny Sawrey, we had a light shower first thing but the sun has now popped out and its looking like another stunning day. Picked up some new season Jersey Royal Potatoes at the fruity market, its great to get the first batch of them and I cannot wait to have some for dinner tonight with some mint from the garden YUM YUM!!!

A new business has been launched in the Village this week and below is a link posted to the site, http://www.lakelandsegway.co.uk/index.htm bloggers may remember me posting a picture of one of the segway's a customer came to the shop on last summer, well now a hobby has been turned into an innovative business and we wish Rob and Larriaine lots of success with their new venture

A poster has gone up in the window today advertising the village May fayre on the 18th of May

its a great traditional village event and its so lovely to see the children all dancing around the maypole, Sawrey would love to see you if you fancy a day out, those of you who are new to the blog, Sawrey is on the road to the car ferry from Hawkshead

Well thats about all for now folks, better go check that peter rabbit has not run away with all of the radishes ;-)

Good Bank Holiday Monday Morning from Sawrey, just taken the above picture and as you can see its a glorious morning weather wise, the lambs are chilling out just like everyone else!

It has been a slow start to the day today, either everyone is still getting up or they got up and went out early!

There was a fire in Ambleside the other week, it was quite a serious fire and it caused a significant amount of damage to the shops in the market square. The link before is to youtube and the fire was captured by a passer by http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ambleside+fire&search_type=

Its amazing how fast that above picture downloaded!!! We have had broadband installed here at the shop and it seems to whizz through downloading things a million times faster than our old dial up connection. That and people can now call us and the line will not be engaged :-)

This is my last day in the shop for a couple of days so the blog will return towards the end of the week

HAPPY BANK HOLIDAY

Good Morning from Wet and thundery Sawrey, the thunder started at about 5.30am today and continued for about three hours! It sounded like a bomb going off! The poor Lambs!!! But in the true spirit of Bank Holiday Weather, I guess its bang on!!!





Popped to Ambleside for the bread early this morning and just had to sample the new chocolate croissants! YUM YUM! The bread and bath bus sold out in record time this morning despite ordering extra for the bank holiday.



Above is one of the prints that we have started selling online, for those of who who know and love the village I am sure you know where it was painted and how true a representation of Near Sawrey it is..

The sunday papers are all full of political news following the local elections this past week. I do not think there is any more news fromSawrey this morning......weather update.............the sun has just popped out!!!!!!!! Hoooorah!!!

greetings......

Happy New Year Blog readers......those of you who have mentioned how much you have missed the blog know who you are and I am pelased to announce its back. I have tried unsuccessfully to incorporate it to our new web site but its just not the same, so if its not broken why fix it hey!!!!!!

We have been working hard throughout the winter months to get the website up and running and finally its working, its still a work in progress but it works as we received our first online orders last week!!!! Is'nt technology amazing!!! www.sawreystores.com

Well its the Bank Holiday weekend here in Sawrey and its lovely and sunny, boy has it rained recently!!!

We have have sold over a dozen toothbrushes today!!! Everyone seems to have forgotten theirs, its funny how we can go weekes without selling one and then we nearly sell out, like buses hey!!!

We have started stocking a larger range of pickles and jams from Hawkshead relish company this year and its proving to be a great seller, the strawberry and Black Pepper Jam is absolutely delicious!!! We also sell now sell a jam which has featured on the Chris Evans Radio 2 show. Its called "sally traffic jam" so those of you who listen to the show will know which radio star loves it!!!

Benny is out shopping with mother for plants at the lakeland garden sale at troutbeck bridge today, he has not been well recently but seems to be bouncing back daily :-) He and I are going out for a walk in the bluebell woods after work

Boris Johnstone may today be running the capital but Sawrey reminas in the hands of the liberal democrat candidate I am told...

Well thats about all for now folks, best to ease both you and I back into the blog gently hey

Love from Sawrey