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Steven's Blog - April 2008

Steven Lamb is our resident host at River Cottage HQ (Park Farm), and is involved in our whole range of courses and events on a daily basis.

The snow is thick on the ground; it must be British Summer time.

Let’s not fall into that trap of talking about the weather, quite frankly we just don’t have the time. We’ve already lost an hour anyway when the clocks went forward and I’m about to embark on a journey, which gives me the excuse I need for posting this rather measly entry.

Was that a collective sigh of relief?

I’m not off chasing the sun and there is no place for Hawaiian shirts and knotted handkerchiefs where I’m going because, in fact it is less of a journey and more of a pilgrimage. I am going back to the source to visit our beginning.

I was chatting away to Hugh last week during a gap in filming (in fact there is so much time when the cameras aren’t rolling that it ought to be called ‘gapping’). We were talking about the early River Cottage series and locations which made me realise that I have never been to the original cottage. I’d been past it and knew exactly where it was, but never actually visited, which is slightly peculiar because we are an organisation which prides itself on knowing exactly where everything is from and I’m forever banging on about provenance.

So over the next few weeks I am going to be posting both written and video entries of the road back to River Cottage, and hopefully trace our journey to where we are now. Along the way I hope to bump into some familiar faces and places, as well as unearth some new material from the past.

I’m shaking with excitement at the prospect of tracing the path back to the start and now that we have the functionality to allow your comments to be posted onto the blog page at www.rivercottage.net/blogs, I am confident that I will get some good guidance along the way.

If any of you have any photos, material or other information from your own pilgrimages to River Cottage, whether they are from the early days or either of our HQ locations, then I'd be delighted to see them.

So, goodbye for now; I’ve got a time machine to organise.

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Some people get to have all the fun!!! I'm quite jealous....

Enjoy!

Barry

Barry Coyle

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