Well, this is it guys...a mini heat wave. The met office is forecasting 20 degrees for the next 5 days, and dry weather until Monday morning. If you are in Lymm this weekend and looking for something nice to do, the Lymm Artisan Market will be on this Sunday from 10-3 in the Youth & Community Centre on Bridgewater Street adjacent to the canal. Alison and Patrick have been working really hard to re-launch the market lately, and have had lots of requests for stalls. (if you are on twitter and want to follow them, they are @marketfairs)
The market is monthly on the 3rd Sunday of the month, so I'll be diarising a monthly trip in addition to my Abbey Leys visit on the 1st Sunday of the month.
There will be some craft stalls, but one of my favourite farm shops will have a stall too: Kenyon Hall Farm. (http://www.kenyonhall.co.uk/) These guys really know their business, and by that I don't just mean running a farm shop. They have a very successful pick-your-own farm just a couple of junctions up the M6, sell beautiful bedding plants and a wide selection of herbs in their nursery, and in the last year or two have built a new building to house a farm shop, café and toilets. They are going to let me know when they have their first ripe strawberry, so watch this space!
In addition to the market, there are all the usual eateries which like to open on a Sunday: Nancy's Deli, the Gobstopper (try their ice cream), Café Salaar and the pubs for starters. Nancy tells me there is a great buzz in the village on Sundays, with people from outside Lymm taking a walk round the Dam then along the Dingle to visit the village itself.
I'm going to join them this week, and have a local day with some local food shopping...after all, who wants to go to the supermarket in such lovely weather?
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