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"

Wednesday, September 03, 2008




Good Morning from Sawrey, I am getting tired of saying this, but its raining again! Not even that fine rain that soaks you through, this is big splodges of rain that bounce off the ground.... This weather is killing trade, it is quite worrying.... anyway...




Opened up the newspapers this morning to be greeted with a new magazine they want us to sell, no not tractor monthly or dirt monthy (the mountain bike mag) but...... "The Art Of Seduction" fortnigtly..... as if monthly was not enough!...... could not quite believe my eyes, I do not think the computer realises that we do not sell top shelf material......this copy has 2 free gifts enclosed........some ginger massage oil and some nipple tassles..... just what Sawrey needs ;0) One of the first customers in laughed and said she had come away with some girlfriends to get away from things like that!




Surfing the net the other day I discovered a fun site.... Using paint tools you can hang a virtual canvas on the side of an equally virtual building. Your invited to grab a brush, or roller from the side of the kerb in order to create your own “Can-you-tell-what-it-is-yet” style masterpiece. Uniquely there’s even a brush called the Jackson P which can be used to help create your Pollack-esque convas. When you run out of paint you can choose whether to pass it on to another online painter to complete, or whether to declare it finished and have it hung in the public gallery... For the puurpose of passing a few minutes I painted an "I love sawrey picture" the site can be found at






Happy Painting




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