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Guestbook
Welcome to the Greystoke Cycle Cafe guestbook. Many
thanks for all your great comments throughout the year. To post a message
regarding the cafe - ( or the workshops) - please use the following link to
tell us your news:
guestbook@greystokecyclecafe.co.uk
Beginners Watercolours with Margaret Jarvis May 2008
Just to thank you and Margaret for a thoroughy enjoyable watercolours day . This complete beginner left feeling really inspired and well fed and relaxed ...many thanks..Sally
Note to Beccy Middleton ... many thanks for your honesty, your donation and very kind comments, we have framed your letter !!! .......Annie
Cycle Café 2007
Thanks for your kind hospitality when we visited you on Saturday 28
April. The food was excellent, and kept the guys going up the steep
climb into Alston!
Please find attached a copy of the photo you took for us, it is great.
We will be using it in the PR we undertake around the event.
Cycle Café April 2008
We called in at your wonderful cycle cafe on 1 April 2008 not really
committed to finishing the C2C, but just happy to see how far we got.
The children were so inspired after visiting the cafe and realizing that
if Katie finished she would be the youngest girl to complete it. But
with a wonderfully favourable wind behind us had a great cycle over the
Penines finished3 days later with a great ride along the north side of
the Tyne to Tynemouth and dipped our Irish Sea pebbles into the North
Sea. Katie was 7 years 353 days old and Hannah 10 years old when they
finished the C2C.
Thank you for the inspiration, the welcome food and helpful advice
regarding accommodation. The Russell family…Kendal
First Aid Course March 2008
Congratulations and thank you. ! You set up and ran a First Aid training
day which not only saw our delegates successfully re-qualified but was
highly enjoyable for them.
I have pleasure in confirming further bookings for more staff who are
due for re-training and who, having heard from our first representatives
how wonderful your day was, insist on receiving their updates via you.
Alasdair motivated and enthused our staff so successfully they have all
taken similar courses in the past and were, to be honest, only attending
yours under duress from me.
However, they have nothing but praise for your welcome and the trainer's
energetic and attention-holding presentation, not to mention the
fabulous lunch and afternoon tea.
Apart from fulfilling training requirements, this will obviously make
life easier for me as I will not now meet with the usual reluctance when
booking everyone's mandatory up-dates.
Living Willow – 14 march 2008
Thank you for a really enjoyable day! It was just what was needed- a
real change from everyday hassle .And the food was wonderful!
Lesley and I are both now inspired and busy planning sites to get
weaving in the garden! Phil is a good and forgiving teacher- And the sun
shone!
Willow Hens and Cockerels Nov 2007
Thank you for a fantastic day yesterday, Peter and I had a great time
.The cockerels are taking pride of place in our school entrance! It was
so nice to meet you all .
Wishing you a very happy Christmas. Hoping to see you on the next
course.
Scone Making Day
Thanks for a very enjoyable
day all round, including an excellent lunch. Even the recalcitrant youth had
a good time (as they usually do once overcoming the fear of the unknown). I
will be delighted to recommend your hospitality to all known cyclists and
seekers of quirkiness from here on.
I also enjoyed your poetry
(especially the AABBA parts) and thought you might be able to stand one more
of mine written yesterday on a theme discussed earlier (I was glad to find
today's company mostly in agreement with me on the pronunciation):
Do I find myself all on my
own?
Is my way now with tumbleweed blown?
Would most wish it begone
When I ask for a scone ...
Preferring to serve me a scone?
Good luck with this season
(and the varnishing).
Best wishes, Doug
Posted 19 October 2007 - first aid course
hello Annie
just to say thanks for the first aid course.
I was not looking forward to an eight hour
concentrated course. I have been on them many times and nearly always found
them tedious and a chore. A lot of information to be put in a short time.
Usually for me that meant not a lot of info retention after a couple of
hours.
However the course on Monday was inspirational.
Alisdair's enthusiasm shone through and lasted the whole day. Not only did
my rear end not complain from sitting in the same position but there was not
a single moment when I was bored.
Certainly the best first
aid course I have been on and the food and hospitality was great.
take care
Alan Alldred.
Posted 26 July 07 – Fine Watercolours with
Billy Showell
.. I just wanted to thank you for a perfectly
wonderful day yesterday. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and so did my three
friends from the Ullswater Art Club. Billy Showell was simply terrific – an
excellent tutor . I do hope she enjoyed her trip up north and found your
whole set-up,, including the wonderful catering, as incredible and as
welcoming as we did. Thank you again ..Elizabeth Clark, Hartsop.
Posted 26 July 07 – Café
What a rare treat. Coffee, home-made cakes and
flapjacks and swarfega ! What more could a weary cyclist want? Apart perhaps
from a massage. And even that is available at this amazing haven. If only I
had known I would have pre-booked. And don't think the Greystoke Cycle Cafe
caters simply for physical needs. There is food for thought as well -
information about the Tarzan/Lord Greystoke myth and a Chinese proverb
translated into Italian. (about love and money)
Thank you Annie for the lemon drizzle cake and
flapjacks, which were lovely, but more for the warmth of your welcome and
for helping us to forget our aches and average speed for a brief but lovely
moment.
Tom, Mike, Shane and Gavin - 4 grateful
teachers from Birmingham.
Posted 19 Aug 07 – Willow
Hens and Cockerels
Dear Annie,
Just to let you know how much we enjoyed our
day, the hen and cockerel have pride of place in our garden. We particularly
enjoyed lunch, what a tour de force, next time I am just coming for the
food, never mind the course! We will be recommending you to anyone who will
listen and will definitely be visiting again - many thanks again ..Jonty and
Fiona
Posted 31 Aug 07 - Café
Hi Guys,
Just a quick note to say how shocked I was at
the level you guys go to, to help C2Cers. I was doing the ride last week
when I came across the cafe. I was totally out of juice and my bike was
getting difficult to pedal due to needing some oil. As I approached the cafe
I was gutted to see that it was closed, until I saw the sign - totally
beyond the call of duty. Fantastic Service - Juice, Oil, somewhere to chill
out, and extra help if required.
I live in Manchester, and if you left your
juice and oil out (and your card stamp - mustn't forget that), the juice,
the oil and the receptacles that they're in would be gone in minutes.
A one-in-a-million cafe - Thank You.
Stephen Hynes
Transportation Officer
Bury MBC
Posted
21st April
2007
Annie,
Called at your cafe on 21st April 2007 at about 11.00am while on C 2 C cycle
ride & enjoyed tea / cakes, very nice thank you.
Posted
Dear Annie,
Just a quick note to thank you for
making four weary cyclists very happy last Friday evening. We arrived in
Greystoke at around 8:00pm on our way to Penrith on the first day of our C2C
trip, arriving several hours later than planned due to two punctures and a
tyre blow-out coming over Whinlatter. We were delighted to find that even
though we arrived a couple of hours after you closed we were still able to
stamp our cards. The jugs of juice on the table were a nice touch also,
although we didn't make use of them as we were still carrying plenty of
refreshment. Hopefully our next visit to Greystoke will be during opening
hours!
Best regards
Vince
Posted 15th
March 2007
Thank you for a lovely day Annie.
Brian & I are all set to create our tree and have eaten enough cakes/puds
'til the next time! Please pass on our thanks to Phil we learnt so much and
it was really good to be in separate groups (Doubled our knowledge rather
than split us up!).
with very best wishes
Christine
Posted 30th May
2007
The best cycle stop ever !. Thank
you so much. Delicious flapjack- just what we needed…four tired c2c cyclists
Posted
What an amazing place- you really
have spent time thinking about everything anyone could need ..we will
recommend this stop to all our friends (whether looking to camp or for food
)… a true oasis.
Peter and Stephen
Posted
Many thanks for making the end of
our first C2C day so special. It was lovely to have such a warm welcome and
lovely refreshments in a wonderful environment.
Thanks and we hope to see you on our next C2C trip!
Vanessa
Posted
A very quick email to say a big
THANK YOU for the kindness and hospitality extended to my friend Kevin and I
when we visited your wonderful establishment last Friday lunchtime! What an
absolute pleasure it was.
Posted
Hi - just dropping a line to say thanks for the
warm welcome we got in Greystoke...I have posted a thread on 'Europes most
popular Cycling Website' where I have recommended you:
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/read.php?f=2&i=3029398&t=3029398
Thanks again, Tom & Paul (we were the two lads at about 3.00 Friday
afternoon)
Posted June
19. 2006 00:24:57
Thanks for the fantastic soup and such a great welcome, hope the car
passed the MOT and that the photos I took with your camera came out ok?
David (of David Yvette Lorna & Mike on 2 Tandems fame !)
C2C 7th to 11th June 2006
Posted June
14. 2006 10:11:28:
Annie, A belated thank you email for such a lovely day on Sunday, especially
the early morning coffee and toast….never been so hung over for ages!!. It was a great
course and I have sent emails to the surveyors to tell them to get on the
July course.
I will make the
effort to cycle over from Cockermouth so I can justify a slab of that
special gooey cake!! Thanks, Dave and Carey
Posted
May 2. 2005 13:57:57:
Thanks from Whoosh 2006 (St. Paul's and St. Saviours Churches in
Herne Hill, London for your wonderful hospitality on a very rainy day!
Jonathan
Posted
April 23. 2006 19:22:50:
On Saturday I did the bike maintenance workshop at Greystoke cycle cafe and
learnt so much about maintaining my bike. Steve was a great instructor -very
knowledgeable about lots of different bikes and very patient. A workshop to
be recommended for teenagers and adults keen on biking. Many thanks and the
cakes as ever were wonderful. Rosie
Posted
April 6. 2006 15:26:51:
Annie, Hi - we sampled the delights of your cafe on
Tuesday
(30th) as 8 of us completed the C2C last week. We are all members of
Tintwistle Band and a write up will appear shortly on our web page (www.tintwistleband.org).
Thanks very much for the warm welcome it was much appreciated. here is the
picture of our group. Dave
Posted
March 28. 2006 13:07:18:
Many thanks for a lovely day - I really enjoyed the course and the delicious
food! Yvette
Posted
January 29. 2006 08:48:59:
Annie,
Thanks for a lovely day and great food. Have finished my sample rug and
raided the charity shops in Keswick for blankets ready for my next project.
Hoping to fit in another workshop later in the year. Thanks, Jackie
Posted
October 26. 2005 19:35:16:
And yes we did make the whole route in two days (phew - sticky
toffee pudding must have helped. We shall return. Craig, Michelle, Ben the
rest of the guys and our superb support team, not forgetting thanks to
Orange bikes.
Posted
October 26. 2005 19:34:47:
Annie, fantastic place, exceptional food, watercress soup, sticky toffee
pudding wow. It really was a highpoint in our C2C trip. Would recommend all
C2C riders to make this part of the trip. Cont'd above Hi Annie Apologies if
feedback is slightly belated. Super tray bakes and such a friendly welcome.
Kitten pic is great. Your cafe is a 5 Star Plus establishment. Who could
cycle across the country and miss you? See you again sometime. Stuart.
Posted
August 22. 2005 16:28:30:
Fantastic cakes. Portions very generous! Gave us enough energy to reach PH
same day. Mark & Marion.
Posted
August 16. 2005 18:58:27:
Hi Annie, with all these satisfied customers we can't wait to get there and
try it for ourselves. Magda & Alan
Posted
August 05. 2005 20:05:59:
Enjoyed playing with the gorgeous kittens and eating the yummy cakes! Best
cafe ever!
Posted
July 31. 2005 18:02:33:
Absolutely lovely cafe, great service and super yummy cakes. I would
recommend it for anyone to visit and will definitely be visiting again. 5
star award!!
Posted
July 30. 2005 19:45:34:
Really nice food and good service-the soup and roll was delicious.
Thanks a lot - I'll definitely call again.
Posted
July 04. 2005 12:52:07:
Excellent late afternoon tea and homemade cakes on Saturday, just
before coasting into Penrith. Beautiful setting and very friendly service. A
photograph taken of our party at the cafe is on its way. Highly recommended!
Posted
July 02. 2005 15:02:32:
The food was fantastic! especially the cakes, and the garden was beautiful.
I'd definitely recommend this cafe. staff were very friendly-will visit
again soon.
Posted
June 27. 2005 21:30:09:
Hi Annie, You are getting lots of great feedback via my C2C Guide
website - keep up the good work and I will get out to visit sometime soon -
honest! Dik
Posted
June 27. 2005 21:02:00:
We visited at the weekend and the cakes were great. very friendly staff from
the Burns party.
Posted
17 Nov 2006 :Dear Annie,
Re - Beautiful Breadmaking Machines Workshop Many thanks for an informative and enjoyable morning.
I look forward to your future workshop lists.Best wishes Anne
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