Food Festival

We made our annual trip to the Bishop Auckland Food Festival today, an enjoyable afternoon in the spring sunshine wandering through the stall of exotic, prosaic (and all shades in between) produce, and although our main focus was on cheese (five varieties bought) we also sought out the Spicy Monkey Curry man, the Tarte and Berry cake girls, and a new purveyor of cordials; lunch was a prize-winning sausage bun (or more accurately a bun over-filled with three fat tasty sausages) washed down in my case with a cask beer from the Yard of Ale Brew Company, the latter located in the Tipple Tent – a new, and popular, feature this year – and to round off the day we took our pre-booked seats in the town hall theatre for the Battle of the Bakers where three ex-competitors from the Great British Bake Off put on an entertaining show with Glen compering a mini-bake-off between Cat and Kimberley featuring fruit tarts and the inside track on the hit BBC TV show.