Choose

 “I’d like a brie and pear sandwich please”

“Certainly, sir, would you like that on white or granary bread?”

“You choose/surprise me/I don’t mind”

In more than eleven years taking sandwich orders at the counter I have never known this. This season it’s happening at least once a week.

So 

A. Has the pandemic led to us being more indecisive?

B. Has the pandemic led us to not care about the smaller details?

C. Are people who really want white bread ashamed to order it but can’t bring themselves to ask for granary?

The choice is yours.

Take it away

 We’re open again but with a difference.

This time we’re a takeaway for a couple of weeks.

Current regulations allow people to meet outside in a park or garden so we’ve put out the benches and will be a garden park. 

Until 12th April. When the tables and chairs can go out. 

We’ve been fortunate this week. The sun has been shining and the combination of soup and ice cream, cakes, hot and cold drinks has been enough. It’s been great to see so many people: regulars who’ve greeted us after an unusually tricky winter; families who’ve brought their children out for the first time in months.   There’s a frisson of excitement about a cream tea, even when the tea is served in a compostable cup and the scone in a cardboard tray with a wooden knife.