Thank you for all your commiserations about our disappointment with Woolfest! Both Gilly and Thimbleanna left comments saying that we weren't the only ones who didn't think it was as good as previous years. Never mind, after having lunch in Cockermouth and dinner in Keswick, the next meal we had was breakfast at the excellent B&B. It was the most wonderful breakfast, with sausage, bacon, eggs, mushrooms and toast. But as well as enjoying the food, we were also entertained by a young Japanese couple ..... we think they were on their honeymoon. They obviously didn't speak much English ...... and also obviously hadn't encountered a cafetiere of coffee before, as the boy (he looked much, much too young to call him a man) tried to pour it without having depressed the plunger. Having been a Brownie and a Guide, I performed my good deed for the day, and showed him what to do. They started breakfast with a bowl of porridge ..... judging by the face-pulling, I don't think they liked it very much. Then they had smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, which was fine ..... but he had black pudding with his and she had vegetarian sausage ....... I think they had just ticked boxes on the breakfast menu without knowing what it was!
After breakfast, we headed to Lower Sizergh Barn. There is a wonderful farm shop, crafts for sale, some beautiful (but expensive) clothing, and a lovely tearoom where we only had a cuppa, as we were still full from breakfast. But the best bit was the farm trail ..... we didn't walk round all of it, but look what we found on the stretch we did walk
we then went to ........ but I'll tell you that tomorrow, as there are still lots of photos to share with you, and I haven't yet shown you what I bought in this shop in Keswick (well, I did have all that money that I didn't spend on wool!)
first was this wonderful tin
which was filled with mint cake
the nougat is for Malcolm, as is the bag of milk chocolate orange thins on the left, with dark chocolate mint thins on the right for me
you know that I love to get parcels from afar .........
....... and just look what was in this one!
you can find the shoes here