1 April 2020 - Home delivery, food needed, footpath
Hello everyone,
I’ve mentioned this before, but just in case you missed it, here’s a reminder. Barbara Clements from her award winning Spar shop on Preston Road is offering a delivery service in the local area. I’ve known Barbara for many years, and she has always had the interests of the local community at heart, and been very generous to local organisations such as, and I remember it well, The Preston Pantomime Group. Her delivery service is one more example of her concern, so if you would like to avail yourself of this, contact her on at
Tony Ferrari tells me that Louie O’Leary, Councillor for Littlemoor, is organising a volunteer network who collect medicine and deliver food to Preston and Littlemoor. Initially they received lots of food from places like the Harvester who donated their stock which could not be sold. However that’s all gone now and he is desperate for more. Tony proposes to reinstate the food collection box by the Village Information Centre (which surprisingly looks just like a telephone box) on Sunday 11 April. It will be collected on Monday morning. Tony says that although it is too early for fresh veg - although those with well-established asparagus beds might nearly be there (I wish) - he would welcome any food, fresh, dried, tinned, whatever you can spare.
Thank you to those you contacted me after my moan at the state of the path up to Margaret’s Seat. My actual complaint was not that it was muddy – it’s dried out now, but must be awful when wet – but that the huge ruts in the path made it very difficult to walk on. Liz made the point that the farms are working businesses and we should be grateful that we can access them. Correct, of course, but I’ve been using that route for nearly 50 years and it’s only very recently that the problems have emerged on this public footpath. Brian had trouble lower down – as did I, but my boots helped me here – at the stile at the top of the field above White Horse Lane. The exit is an extensive deep bog! Richard had an answer to all this by suggesting some nice alternative routes above the village. If you would like a copy of these, let me know.
That’s enough for now. Only 16,997 more to my free coffee morning.
Best regards
Chris