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Weekend findings
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Weekend findings

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This weekend the weather is lovely, blue sky, very little wind and fairly warm. It’s the time of year where I think weekends such as this will be few and far between. As the saying in a much watched and loved tv series goes “winter is coming” #GOT

The first of our finds is right in the heart of Southport, it’s a lovely little pub called The Cheshire Lines, the Cheshire line was a railway that ran in the area, I will do a blog about it at a later date. This pub is the type I adore, a proper “olde worlde” place. It does food though I haven’t as yet sampled their fare so will reserve comment for now.

Beautiful

These pubs are dying out now and have been for year’s, the covid induced shut down has done them no favours at all.

This is on King Street, if youre ever in Southport then please pop in and check it out for yourself

https://m.facebook.com/cheshirelinessouthport/

The second of our weekend finds is, I must confess, a bit of a cheat. We actually found this place a few weeks ago. It’s a farm in the village of Burscough. They have diversified and turned one of their barns into business units, one of which is taken by a dog groomer that we have just started to use for Charlie dog

Before and after

They also have a farm shop that we use often to buy our cheese, bacon, pies etc. You cannot beat fresh farm produce.

If you want to stay over, and I recommend you do, they have a few options.

https://m.facebook.com/thefarmburscough/

  • Bed and Breakfast
  • Caravan
  • Tent

The B&B is 4 star rated and the camping section has electric hook up and showers, although it is not that far from us (about a 15 min drive) we are thinking about booking a tent slot next year, £18.00 per night, for a bit of much needed R and R. A full English breakfast to start the day followed by a bit of walking and a lot of drinking……..heaven in a field.

I am a Lancashire lad so anything I find that extols the virtues of my beloved county I will pass on to everyone.

But……and it’s a big but……..especially in the times we find ourselves in, no matter where you are you should support your local businesses.

2 Weeks after furlough
Days out · Food · Southport · Weekend Reflections

2 Weeks after furlough

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Having been back at work now for 2 weeks, I find that I have been neglecting my blogs. Getting up out of a nice warm bed at 3.30 am is altogether one of the most difficult things I have to do. I, as my friends and family will attest to, am not a morning person. So by the time, this weekend rolled along I was well and truly shattered.

Having a relax at the caravan we realised that there was a farm shop just round the corner no more than a hours round trip walk. Once there we bought the usual suspects, eggs, potatoes, cabbage etc. Also there where fresh bunches of tasty looking rhubarb, so me being me, decided to buy a bunch.

Farm shop veg box

Fast forward too this afternoon and trying to figure out what to do with the rhubarb, I decided to make a rhubarb crumble which is something I’ve never made before.

Rosy the herdy watching me

While I was making the crumble, I noticed I had a visitor, one of the herdy flock belonging to Mrs. H. Watching me at work.

In the oven

The crumble is in the oven and cooking, unfortunately the oven in the caravan is LPG so cooking times are a little bit longer than a normal gas oven, so not going to get a taster for a little while yet.

All finnished

Finally after what seemed an eternity of waiting the crumble is finally out of the oven and into a bowl, followed very closely into my mouth.

For my first attempt the result was very pleasing. It tasted just how it should have done all in all a success. I am sitting here now with a belly full of rhubarb crumble and custard and feeling most happy with myself.

What will tomorrow bring, only time will tell.