At last the north wind dropped and the temperature has started to rise.
The schools are all back and so not one kiddie in the tearoom today, we did have a bit of an invasion, a coach load of ladies from Liverpool, their bus driver had got them lost and they were gasping for a cup of tea.

I took a phone booking tonight and I thought there was a bit of a delay, it turned out the call was from Tanzania in East Africa, I think that's a first.