Day in Hexham

The Frith Chair


Greg Bureau owner of Bouchon

Thanks to Noah I spent a lovely day and eve in Hexham our closest market town. There was a Christmas Fayre on all around the Abbey with two reindeer in a small paddock with hay on the Abbey green, lots of stalls; food stalls, craft stalls, organic meat stalls, game and wild fowl, local cheeses, chutneys galore, organic vegetables, smoked fish, olives and feta, handwoven baskets, leather goods,local pottery, you name it...
We did some shopping and got very excited about our upcoming supper of pheasant and oak smoked Scottish salmon,mmm... yummy.
Although it was pouring rain throughout people were milling about and we even saw some people we knew. That is a great thing here in the UK that weather does not really come into the picture as much of a deterrent. People still ramble the country side go out to markets and spend time in their gardens working.
I bought a green wreath for the cottage door, and I will tie a red ribbon around it to hang it up with, some tissue wrapping paper and a couple of gifts.
We went into the Abbey which was also full of stalls and a cafe! We also shared some of our favourite things there with eachother. The Frith chair for one.
Then we went home down the hill of Gilesgate, where Noah's favourite restaurant Bouchon lies, and had a lovely hot cuppa tea with Sofie back home at Noah's.
I was knitting while we watched the last episodes of Little Dorritt that I had recorded and we had such a cosy fun afternoon although we cried our eyes out
over some very sad events in the story. I felt like a real granny with Sofie on my lap and knitting away!
Then we had a most delicious supper together. Noah is a great cook he really is.
Pheasant cooked with vegetables in a Schlemmertopf, roast potatoes and I drank soy milk of all things! The salmon was out of this world! Afterwards we drank jasmine tea and talked for ages about topics like making films. He has this idea for a film he has wanted to make for a while now and is going ahead with! Power to him! We had a truely wonderful time together it was too bad I had to go back home early but the weather was getting worse with the rain turning to sleet and even snow by the time I got home.