This morning dear readers of Wear and Dao, the blogger and his partner set off for Barnard Castle bright and early to buy some sourdough bread from Rise. We took a circuitous route via Middleton in Teesdale, Langdon Beck, Mikleton, Romaldkirk, Cotherstone and Lartington before arriving at Barnard Castle in time to meet John from the Stanhope Hub for lunch at Rise ... not only a bakery but a cafe too with wonderful food.
We stopped at the Langdon Beck hotel to see how our friends were faring with the refurbishment of the hotel, which is slowly returning to its former glory ... Jane and Andrew, sister and brother and son of Beryl at the Community Centre in Stanhope were found busily working alongside the painters as they hurried to finish the job.
Back at Barney we met John and enjoyed a delicious and nutritious lunch before going to see John's house which looked really good. Returning over the hill to Stanhope we went for a pint at the Grey Bull to assuage our thirst before a light supper of egg mayonnaise in a white sourdough sandwich and an early night.
Tomorrow our philosopher friend Bill arrives for lunch of mushroom risotto made with the wonderful wild mushrooms found growing on trees called Pheasant of the Woods.
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