31/10/2026
Wellā¦ This time last week, I had absolutely NO idea what the next seven days were going to bring. All I knew was that I had one week to prepare for Christmas and to reopen with a new winter counter, a Christmas brochure and a fully organised kitchen ready for the festive season.
The only problem was, I hadnāt quite worked out what any of that was going to look like yet! My brain was so full of ideas that I needed some time and space to actually make sense of them all.
Sunday morning I woke up ridiculously early, as usual, cracked onā¦ and Iāve barely stopped since!
Iāve planned our entire festive counter, created our Christmas pre-order menu, worked through all the costings, portions, prices and finer details, and designed the layout and artwork for our Christmas brochure completely from scratch, and I have absolutely LOVED every minute of it! š
Iāve given the cabins a huge deep clean and Iāve managed to get through about half of our festive food prep!
Iāve still got a mountain of jobs to get done by Monday evening but weāll get there. š«£
So, if youāve walked past our cabins on Clitheroe Market this week and smelt food cooking, heard pans clanging or music blasting behind the shuttersā¦ GUILTY! š¤£
Iāve been hiding in there, even on our usual market days, because Iāve genuinely needed every single minute to get through everything!
I know closing for a week hasnāt been ideal, and believe me, I wish I could have kept the counter open AND done all this at the same time. But the reality is, thereās only one of me making everything from scratch, and there are only so many hours in a day!
So it most certainly hasnāt been a week off. In fact, I think Iāve worked more hours than usual! But Iāve absolutely loved having the time to be creative again. Iāve been right in my element, letting all those ideas in my head finally come to life.
And now Iām just excited for you all to see what Iāve been working on. I really hope you love it as much as Iāve loved creating it!
Thank you so much for being patient with us while weāve been closed.
Roll on Tuesday! I cannot wait to welcome you all back! ā¤ļø
