Gold CHEFS Award for Mandy and Lin, cub for Harriet.

On Monday 27th July at about 12.45pm Harriet gave birth to a single cub. She took us by surprise, giving no warning at all; we actually thought she and Tamarisk weren't getting on too well but that just shows how wrong we were! We don't interefere with British Otter cubs unless we have to so we don't know the sex of the new baby. It is four weeks old tomorrow and doing well. It has begun to change colour from silver to brown, starting at the head and gradually working backwards along the body. If all goes well its' eyes will open a week tomorrow and it will start exploring shortly afterwards.

On a subject very close to my heart (and to be honest, stomach) our tea room has been awarded a Gold CHEFS Award from Cornwall Council. This is in recognition of high standards of cleanliness, training, and use of healthy, local produce. We are one of the first tea rooms to receive the award (only two gold awards have been awarded so far in Cornwall since the new unitary authority took over). Mandy and Lin have worked extremely hard over the past few years to update and improve the tea room and we are very proud of them.