taking sausage to the literati at the festival of golden words!

This weekend we took a marquee for our other business, Langdale Farm, to the Festival of Golden Words and sold our gourmet pork sausages to the literati - free range Wessex Saddleback for sustenance of the choicest nature to fire the writerly synapses.

Curiously, it became clear during the course of the day that Hot American Mustard is a much favoured condiment amongst the literati. They went through a whole bottle.  

Yesterday it was my husband's honour to provide lunch for Julian Burnside QC and his wife the artist Kate Durham. Today it is my hope that they return, so I can give them pro bono sausages, for all the work they do with asylum seekers and refugees. It may be a tiny gesture, but it would make us happy. My parents grew up in northern Ireland. We should all be so lucky to have a stable and peaceful homeland in which to live - it's a privilege not to be taken for granted. 

It's a delightful feature of this small business that we have wonderful customers - like minded people with similar views about how food should be produced and mindful eating and living. Yesterday we had many comments, moreso that usual, about how delicious the sausages were. 'My wife said you just sold her the best sausage she's ever eaten!' said Christopher from Tasmania 40 Degrees South magazine. We promptly provided him with his own, so he could see what she meant. 

Perhaps writers, as communicators, are better at feedback. Whatever the case, we're delighted to provide good food for good people. And for me of course it's an absolute joy to have a writer's event of such magnitude on my very doorstep. 

So thank you to the organisers who have done such a sterling job of bringing such riches to our small but beautiful region.  

And come see us for a sausage and mustard!