Trying to Keep a Sense of Humour

£5 Don't Panic bag bought by my brother Nick at his local farm shop Bucksum in Long Crendon yesterday.

Great Cafes blog and the three of us at Turpin Smale Catering Consultants know how tough it is for owners and staff at cafes throughout the land dealing with the closures, short-time working, cash flow challenges, staff worries and lack of customers.  We are very much thinking of you.

Our photos and stories are often prepared well in advance so we will keep going for as long as possible whilst home working.  We have a treasure trove of photos from a recent cafe tour of Australia and New Zealand to come.  Do send in items of interest to chris.brown@turpinsmale.co.uk

To all our blog readers; Keep well.
Chris

Made in Stonor

 Quince Tree home baking - chocolate flapjacks and eccles cakes.

 @TheQuinceTreeUK

Great Cafes Hits 1,000

1,000 blog posts and going strong - cafes are doing just great throughout the UK.  We are busy working on new cafe feasibilities and improving existing operations for:

• Abbeys
• Businesses
• Castles
• Cathedrals
• Courts
• Distilleries
• Farm Attractions
• Farm Shops
• Galleries
• Garden Centres
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• Stately Homes
• Theatres
• Universities
• Venues
• Visitor Centres
• Zoos

Get in touch if we can help you.

Baked Yesterday and Yummy

Full marks to the Pink Pig Farm shop and cafe in Scunthorpe for making clear that there is a distinction between Baked Today and Baked Yesterday (but still yummy to take away and at half price).

Not a Cookery School

The School of Artisan Food is part of the Welbeck Estate in Nottinghamshire - superbly equipped and their (over-subscribed) bakery course appeals greatly.

 The estate's Farm Shop benefits from great bread and a local cheese - Stichelton

The Limehouse Cafe also appeals