Summer in the Pretty Beach Hills: A gorgeous romantic love story. by Polly Babbington

Author:Polly Babbington [Babbington, Polly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-05T16:00:00+00:00

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In jeans, a big floppy grey T-shirt, and her hair pulled up into a ponytail, Poppy made her way to the pub with a spring in her step. She could barely keep the smile from her face in light of her lunch with Will. And now here she was, on a lovely summer’s day, on her way to get the function room ready for her botanical event. Life really was rather good.

Poppy had first started the botanical events at the pub in the early days of Harriet owning it. It had come up as part of a brainstorming session for ways to bring in some income and diversify. What they hadn’t expected was how popular it had turned out to be. Now her events – Poppy’s Tipples – were a much-lauded fixture at The Golden Lion. The only thing that had halted their success was the pandemic, but now, function room dependent, they were back with a bang.

Poppy reflected on how far her small sideline business, Poppy’s Tipples, had come over the years. It had been a very slow start with even slower growth, but now it was a stable small business that tricked along quite nicely. Poppy’s Tipples had all begun with her love of spending time with her dad in the shed. He had spent many hours at the end of the garden, growing things, and with his surplus produce, he’d created all sorts of weird and wonderful concoctions and ways of preserving over the years. As part of his canning and pickling process and in his exploration of trying to preserve things, Poppy had fallen in love with drying herbs and any other items she could lay her hands on. It had started with the simple hanging of things upside down in the shed, then spreading things out on trays and slow-drying bits in the oven, and moved on to air dehydrators and all sorts. Mostly in the early days, it had just been a nice little hobby at the end of her day. With Sophie indoors with Poppy’s mum, she and her dad would spend lovely evenings experimenting and whiling away long hours pottering in the shed, with the radio on in the background and cups of tea by their sides.

She’d started to dabble with garnishes for drinks one summer’s evening when her dad had won a bottle of gin at the bowling club. From there, she’d experimented with all manner of things to put in drinks. That had moved onto her making up little bundles of dried bits and bobs for cocktails. Her cocktail packs had come to be long before her actual business when one of her dad’s old pals, who’d loved to make cocktails, had started to ask her for bits and bobs for his creations. That friend had gone on to sell cocktails to pubs and clubs, and Poppy had provided all sorts of dried fruit and garnishes to go along with them. And so, Poppy’s Tipples was born.

It had really taken

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